He has come a long way on a gift of gab and personal charm.
This is a useful article because it identifies one relevant aspect of Obama. His toxic agenda aside, he is a perfect example of a goobermint bureaucrat or a functionary for a Nonprofit NGO: what he likes most and does best is sit and have meetings. Talk.
He does little work, grabs credit from those who do more, and -- meets with other bureaucratic types who share his aversion to actual work.
Come to think of it, this is what a community organizer does--meets with people and jacks his jaws and talks ya-ya with the pols to milk some cash out of them.