Nothing more than good speaker. The marxist table had been set so to speak by the globalists, media, institutions and Hollywood. Decades of marxist propaganda on race set the stage for an obama. His skin color was the coup de grace to the sensibilities Americans should have used to know he was otherwise completely unqualified for the highest office in the land. But liberals and middle of the road independents ate it up and the chance to slay their white guilt by electing the first black man. Evil genius really.