When the Obamaglam Fades

Virginia Postrel has several posts about Barack Obama, and how he projects a classic Glamour;  in other words people are somewhat bespelled by him, failing to see and listen to what he really says, but instead they project what they want to see and hear upon him.

What happens when the spell breaks and the Obamaglam fades? Nat Hentoff’s article in the Bee is instructional.