I've never thought Obama was particularly attractive in any way, either in his appearance or his speech - and certainly not in his thought, which he never reveals. The master of dissimulation (like his "mentoress," Hillary), he is now trying to make himself into something he seems to believe looks like a mainstream Prot, somewhat tax-conscious and not ravingly opposed to the traditional family, old-line Dem pol.
I'm not sure he's any of the above, but since he's pretty cagey on everything, who's to know?
The inexperienced Muslim candidate is no more difficult to destroy in a campaign than Kerry or Hillary. Ignore everything they say, and expose their voting record. They're hardcore liberals. This is a conservative country, that's why the voters have chosen Republicans to run every branch of the government. If Bush would announce that an executive order requiring a photo ID to vote, the dems would lose every election this century.