Has Obama peaked? (Part 2)

Unfortunately, I never had a chance to come back and finish the "Has Obama peaked?" post. My basic theme was that Obama seemed visionary when he first came on the scene, but that was merely because he was a better actor than most politicians. When Hillary Clinton refused to just go away and cede the nomination to Obama, we learned that Obama was little more than a conventional politician -- and not a very accomplished one either. That's why he was repeatedly hammered in the primaries by Hillary -- but his big edge in the caucuses (the most conventional and undemocratic part of the primary process) won the nomination for him anyway. We'll come back to that theme soon...