@ Wadeusaf:
Regarding comparisons made between Obama and the other men, I think the thing they had in common is that they were ‘young’, which we all were at one time, and how, perhaps ‘less than important’ it all was. McCain in particular was quite the rake at that age

For all the men involved, more important things happened later. But that is all part of the public record.But was Obama’s academic record at Columbia? Were his grades mediocre? Blank out

Just what has Obama done since Columbia?
Community Organizer? Ditched that for Law School.
Law School? Records? Grades? Harvard Law Review editor, but did he write anything?

20 years in South Chicago at Trinity United Church of Christ. Then he bails on Rev. Wright.
Years of association with Bill Ayers, but he’s just a ‘guy in the neighborhood’. Nothing to see here, move along.

A phalanx of reporters can descend on the history of the number two on the Republican ticket, and find minutia about Sarah Palin, but what we know about Obama seems to be only what he tells us. The media seems incurious about who the Man Who Would Be President . actually is like. And it’s not even as interesting as Hemingway’s “Adventures of a Young Man”. If he’s going to novelize his life, he could at least make it more interesting.

Two biographical tomes at the age of 46? “Dreams of My Father” and the “Audacity of Hope”. An aesthetic and a narcissist. If you take away his charisma and charm, Michael Dukakis is more interesting.