[Graybeard58]

people excited not just about electing a black president, but about themselves, voting for a black president.

There you have it - How this total incompetent won the election. Can't imagine any white person with zero's lack of qualifications winning or even being nominated.

[Kaslin]

Indeed. It didn’t matter if he was qualified or not. The only thing was that he was the first black man to be elected and that he was a democrat

[jonno]

Glenn Reynolds, the internet's Instapundit, recently offered a perceptive summary: "I think Obama's 'charisma' was based on voter narcissism—people excited not just about electing a black president, but about themselves, voting for a black president. Now that's over, and they're stuck just with him, and emptied of their own narcissism there's not much there to fill out the suit."

Yep - this was my take-away from the article...

[OldBlondBabe]

My liberal, Obama-voting relatives said exactly that; they voted for him to be “part of history”. Not sure where they stand on him now, I don’t talk to them much.