He didn't say "Obito is cool". He said "That Obito who was that is cool". It's different.
Because I'm not disagreeing with the rest you are saying. Didn't I delete EVERYTHING else but that sentence? I'm only pointing something out. I'm not correcting all that you wrote 
I disagree. If Sakura said, "I love Sasuke, he always used to help me" and ,"I loved Sasuke, he always used to help me" it's different. The former means that she still loves him regardless of how he is now and the former means that she used to love him for how he was.
Same with Naruto's case. "I think Obito is cool, he wanted to be Hokage" and "I thought Obito was cool, he wanted to be Hokage" are two different things.
I only said that because IMO, you're focusing on something that wasn't important to my main point. But then again, it might be important to you so....
Edit: let's agree to disagree. We're only going in circles. And I find this discussion of terms boring.
Edited by ramenanmitsu, 30 March 2015 - 11:07 PM.