Looking at Obama it looks to me that over the years he was "let in" on a few secrets. These secrets have drained any freshness that he had when he first started. He now knows the third secret of Fatima. That aliens do exist. That it is all one big con and the best thing to do is go along for the ride. If you even look at the faces of the various popes over the years, you can see a realisation that when they came in to power that they were told certain things that has knocked the wind out of their sails.