Charisma means little, and I approve this message

Substance, people, substance. What you have done, and what you are capable of doing; insights, visions, implementations. Since when that takes a back seat to charisma. When the Kennedys throw their support to Barack Obama, it hits me, Obama draws his crowd of supporter with his charisma, cause gives his speech just like JFK. His gesture, the content, everything. He's slick, he knows how to work the crowd. The thing is, I've not heard anything special from him: "Washington is broken", "we need to fix health care", "we need to reduce our dependency on foreign oil". Duh?!?! Even grandpa Ron Paul manages to criticize US foreign policy, attributing part of the Arabic population's hatred towards the US to the military base in Saudi Arabia. So shut up with the "I went to Detroit to insist on higher fuel efficiency" already (and even if he did... what did his trip accomplish? And doesn't he realize alot of people drive Japanese and German??)

It's fine if you support Obama, but do it for the deeds, not the charm please. Like the Kennedys, if Teddy can't say his name, I wonder how well he actually knows him.



And yeah, I am really sick of the "... and I approve this mesage" shit. Those commercial directors got to make that less annoying.