Obama may well morph into something unrecognizable to those drawn to his stage presence, his "charisma," as he shapeshifts to conform to the general populace and its "mainstream" preferences.
As for his oratory, it's a little too purple prose for me, a little too touchy-feely with buzz words and boilerplate rhetoric. Give me Calvin Coolidge's style anyday. The less said, the better.
Coolidge was both the most negative and remote of Presidents, and the most accessible. He once explained to Bernard Baruch why he often sat silently through interviews: "Well, Baruch, many times I say only 'yes' or 'no' to people. Even that is too much. It winds them up for twenty minutes more."http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/glimpse/presidents/html/cc30.html
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