Wendy, I loved your book and think you're awesome, but comparing Obama to the quarterback? Lame. This is one way that politics is different from pop culture: just because Obama is good-looking and can make a speech does not mean he is simply a vapid charmer who cruised his way to the top.

 For one thing, he is exceptionally intelligent: not only did he graduate from Harvard Law and serve on Law Review there, but he was the president. You don't get to be the president of any Law Review, much less Harvard Law Review, by being a smooth-talking charmer. He then went on to teach constitutional law at Chicago, another job they don't give away to cute guys.

 Also: he may make being a politician look easy, but he works very hard. He started out his career as a community organizer, one of the most challenging, exhausting - physically, emotionally, mentally - and thankless jobs around. Then he worked his way up through the Illinois State Legislature for eight years. 

 Seriously, if you want to support Clinton, more power to you. But likening Obama to the quarterback from "Election" is just silly.