This is certainly a different take from Beam, who now thinks Obama is "cocky". I agree with this author:

"I saw Obama the next day at a huge rally in Derry, N.H. He's much more of a star than McCain, moving to the stage set up in a high-school gymnasium with a sexy athleticism and delivering a well-wrought speech in his lovely baritone voice. But on most occasions, Obama isn't an especially powerful public performer, either. Like McCain, he is allergic to the kind of demagoguery spewed by a John Edwards or a Mitt Romney. He seems almost suspicious of charisma, afraid that he will be cast in the stereotypical role of the powerful black orator, or that people will respond to him because of his style rather than his substance. There is little virtuosity in most of his appearances."