The whole "folksy" image was a complete fabrication.

The man was a multimillionaire before he became president, bought the ranch in Texas just prior to, and sold it immediately after.

Almost literally born with a silver spoon in his mouth a stone's throw from Washington, DC, attended two Ivy League schools, he had all the benefits of family connections and wealth, never had to work a day in his life, and even got out of serving in Vietnam.

He is about as disconnected from the average American as you can get.

People confuse "stupid" with "folksy".

His candid remarks caught on tape, to me, suggest a man with very little empathy or compassion, a thoroughly ugly personality. NOT someone I'd want to have a beer with no matter how many wood chopping photo ops he participated in before selling his ranch the moment he left office.

To this day it amazes me that this AWOL sniveling little shit was able to make not one, but two Purple Heart war vets look bad arguing ON THEIR MILITARY RECORDS, and somehow managed to keep the subject of his own military service (or complete lack thereof) absent from the dialogue.

And that this Harvard multimillionaire was able to convince people he was a folksy westerner.

I think Obama is far more down to Earth. He's a guy who gets pop culture references, is aware of the MTV VMAs, knows who Kayne West is (And I'm sure Bush didn't know who hell he was until West accused him of being a racist).

And I'm by no means an Obama apologist. He's already done some things I disagree with, but really, if I had to choose, I think I'd genuinely enjoy talking/hanging out with him, compared to Bush whom I couldn't stand to be in the same room with.