[NorthMountain]

Were you embarrassed by his lone and enduring twenty-five year marriage to a strong woman he's never ceased to publicly praise, respect, or cherish?

Reggie Love, anybody?

Were you embarrassed by his Columbia University degree in Political Science or his graduating magna cum laude from Harvard Law School?

Show me the transcripts.

Maybe you were embarrassed by his white American and Black Kenyan parents, or the diversity he was raised in as normal?

Show me the Birth Certificate?

Were you embarrassed by his eloquence, his quick wit, his easy humor, his seeming comfort meeting with both world leaders and street cleaners;

Bullshit! You mean his smarmy and robotic speaking style and his nasty habit of groveling before dictators and lying to the whole world about the alleged manifest awfulness of these United States.

Your god-hero Barry the Repugnant was and is a disgrace to Amreica ... indeed to all of humanity ... and you're too damn dumb to see it. Pathetic!

[Hardastarboard]

his lack of personal scandals or verbal gaffes

To your analysis I would add - Lois Lerner and the IRS; Benghazi, and the fact that he sent an Austrian speaking corpseman on a 57 state tour of the United States (amalgamated gaffes, just like his girlfriends in his books were amalgamations).