Originally Posted by Sausage

As an outsider looking in I am really at odds with how Obama has so much popularity. All I see is slogans and hundreds of millions of dollars invested in getting those slogans out there.

From the outside and what I have gathered he is a fresh faced kid, has no experience, and just rides on the fact that he is 'black'. Watched some of his speeches and he just talks around in fancy talk and never actually says anything.

Is it the fact that everyone is so afraid of being seen as racist, is it the black thing (something he plays to constantly) ... or is there something else I am missing entirely ?