Good comments but the professors (anticipating such arguments) counter with:
1. He’s disadvantaged because “The complex thinker can suffer from ‘analysis paralysis’ and confusion; he can be prerceived as unprincipled or disloyal to the values that elevated him to power; and he can be seen as too willing to make trade-offs.”
2. And: “As Obama’s capacity for complex thought can become a liability, so, too, can his cool rationality. Politics often rewards the emotional over the rational. Nuclear deterrence, for example, works only if your enemy thinks you are crazy enough to destroy the world….But because Obama is unfailingly rational, opponents aren’t afraid of him doing something crazy”
I have to agree with much of the analysis, and I think you're spot on with the counter, Cincinatus' Wife.