He's a solid talker though strangely hot and cold, he fumbles speeches sometimes worse then Bush or Nixon then turns around and does another as well as Reagan or Kennedy. I don't think he ever sold the public on his solution to healthcare, merely sold them that there was a crisis in healthcare which wasn't a hard sell.

They're not really talking points, but my personal assessment of the man. I don't love or hate him, or even particularly dislike him. I think he's well intentioned, which I suspect describes every president we've ever had, and vain, which I think describes most of them too. It doesn't bug me that he's egotistic or condescending, so am I, he's not a narcissistic megalomaniac and he's no worse than most senators or mega-corp CEO's, probably better than most. He sucks at play acting humble. As to his blunders, once we subtract those that we view as blunders from an ideological standpoint it really boils down to being overaggressive and ambitious early in his term then flipping to the exact opposite on several areas. He doesn't act minimally, he holds of, hesitating, and then goes for broke when finally prodded into action. It's a horrible if common trait in a leader. That's the only thing about him I don't like that doesn't boil down to 'not a republican'.