lol Supporters of Obama are in for a bloody rude awakening. He is no different then any other President. He is equally in the pocket of big business, so don't cry when he doesn't part the sea. lol I don't know whats worse, Bush getting a second term, or Obama being equated to a saviour!! lol I can't wait see all the dejected faces that will become so disillusioned over the next 4 years, as they realized he is as much a scum bag as the rest of them. Good on you USA!!!

[edit on 12/16/2008 by Irish M1ck]

Just a thought (IMO everything else has been covered on this thread already):

Obama is the first president-elect to come from a family that was not intact. The only other example I can think of is President Ford, who had a stepfather who adopted him. I believe his real father died. Obama's family life was not all white picket fence and apple pie, the way many people like to think of America.

IMO some folks just like to gossip. Some gossips like to snoop into other peoples' personal business.

As an academic, I'm moderately interested in his Master's thesis (and I believe it was Columbia University, not Columbia College--they're two different institutions) because I like the way he thinks, but not enough to demand he produce it if he doesn't want to or doesn't think it's relevant. Incidentally, University Microfilms has copies of almost every thesis and dissertation written in most institutions of higher learning. You can buy copies of most of them. You'd probably need to know the year it was published, but a thesis is a published work and is therefore accessible to anyone who wants to hunt for it. The other place to look would be--duh--the Columbia library, in the thesis and dissertation section.