It has been a surreal 3 year experience for me to know but finally read an accounting as such Maureen Dowd's Superhero. What was it that prevented so many, otherwise intelligent, people to miscalculate and to misread Obama. His failings have always been there for people to see. Perhaps the Democrats had rigged spray guns filled with Love Portion #9 at each and every voting both and it has taken three years to wear off.