Is it cause he is black?
<gets goat wearing a coat>
To me he is a bit like David Cameron. Young, enthusiastic and wants to change his country. Does he really have any proper policies or ideas that can make America a better nation? He has a lot of work to do reversing the damage done by the bush team (as does Cameron from the Labour tax mongers) but he has got to be better than the other two fossils that are contending with him.