Right you are — the Voice, as Saruman, Obi Won and Hitler would tell you, is absolutely critical to winning popularity and maintaining control. Opposition researchers monitoring this website, please take note: the hectoring, lecturing tone of Obama will send him back to the professoriate in 2013.
Why should it? That scolding voice, those hooded eyes, that angry, nasty snarl, that pseudo-black ghetto dialect, got him elected in 2008.