As a Chicagoan I find it incredulous that there are still intelligent folk (well semi-intelligent folk) out there that think that we know little about Obama’s background. The word on the street here is that we know more about him than we’ve ever known about any other candidate. Time just ran an incredibly detailed piece about every moment of his life. The Tribune has run multi multi-page bios of him and his family. And he lives large here in Hyde Park, a well known figure in the community. So what more do you need to know?

The bigger mystery is McCain’s bio. What do we really know about him? Or his wife who refuses to disclose her financial shenanigans. And why has the press been so quiet about McCain’s affairs?

It works both ways, you know. I for one am much less trustful of a serial adulterer like McCain than someone who may or may not actually harbor beliefs about God that do not meet the neo-con litmus test. So what do YOU beleve, Mr. Kimbal? And what does John McCain actually believe? As far as I can tell he uses the church as a shill to give his agnosticism respectability.