Excellent observations. One other thing that has boosted the Messiah...after the primaries he moved closer to the center in his speeches and has done a good job of talking around his real plans. If we credit him with nothing else, we have to give him credit for being able to lie so well.
RE “he moved closer to the center in his speeches and has done a good job of talking around his real plans.”
He could afford to move to the center and throw close friends under the bus because his liberal base knows he is tricking the stupid public, and they love it. In our case Mccain has to reassure us that he is a conservative all the time, plus if he runs to the center, Obama already took that place. MCain slowly figured out that he needed to separate himself from Obama. If he had shown Maverick leadership on the bailout, separated himself from Obama and Bush on it, and had sounded and looked like he knew what needed to be done, like he did on offshore drilling in the summer, he could have had the election easy (+ still run negative ads.)
In Obama world, he can tax the rich and corporations (our 401Ks ???) and they won’t notice it and he can use it to HELP those that need it, primarily those that don’t pay income taxes. It’s a sales pich for those that beleive those late night get rich quick tele-commercials. And if you oppose your money being taken to payoff Obama voters, you are greedy.