An Obama voter with buyer's remorse.

I was right there laughing when George W. Bush struggled with the names of countries around the world early in his tenure. And while my knowledge of foreign policy is limited, I thought Bush's was lousy, too. But after Sept. 11, I saw a man with no charisma step up and fight for this country, its citizens and its freedom. Bush became a leader.

Seven years later, I am ashamed to say that I was blinded by charisma. Obama was so convincing that I stopped caring about what he knew and started getting caught up in the euphoria. Imagine having a president who came from a broken home, who had money troubles, who did grass-roots community service? A young father. The first black president. It pains me to admit I got caught up in the hoopla.

We had a lot of that last year. While John McCain clearly won his nomination on biography, the same is true for Obama (although much of his biography was hidden from the electorate by a complicit state media...). Left behind were two candidates with obvious abilities and experience--Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney.

Is Obama's profound incompetence an object lesson for the American electorate on the dangers of voting romantically?

Probably not, but I think 'experience' is going to weigh more heavily on the scales next time around...