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This is the career of Obama:

- After high school, he went to Occidental College for two years, then onto Colombia College (political science major and numerous classes in international relations.)

- After graduation, he worked one year for Business International Corporation, and then took a job with a nonprofit organization in Chicago helping local churches organize job training programs for poor neighborhoods.

- Then went to Harvard Law School for three years. Was president of Harvard Law Review and was magna cum laude in 1991.

- 1991, returns to Chicago works for civil rights law firm and teaches over at Univ of Chicago Law School.

- 1996, elected to Illinois State Senate. Seven years later, he is named chairman of state Senate Health and Human Services Committee.

- 2000, unsuccessful primary run for U.S. House of Representatives (against 4-term incumbent Bobby Rush who was a community activist). Rush by the way...said that the Obama hadn't been around enough to see the real district...winning with 61 percent of the vote. Remains in the state senate.

- 2004, gave keynote speech at national convention.

- 2004, runs in senate campaign and todays sit in DC.

So to spell out the big picture...Obama spent a good seven years of his life after high school in higher education. If you are looking for real paychecks and real work...you are stuck with five years at a law firm (and teaching law), plus a year at a poor neighborhood support center. Since 1996...he has been either a state senator or a US senator. No executive experience...although since I am a historian...I must remind you that Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and John Tyler were no better at experience. And in the case of Jimmy Carter and Woody Wilson...executive experience really didn't help them much at all.

He hasn't exactly worked at high paying jobs...and he doesn't have huge bank accounts to hint of bribes. So far...only one accusation has popped up and it would appear that someone wanted to be an "insider" to Obama...not much more than that (our boy "Bill"....had thousands of insiders).

If he chooses to run, Hillary will have huge issues in overcoming his presentation and his lack of background issues. The fact that he tied himself to helping in poor neighborhoods, has a vast knowledge on international affairs, and carry an audience with a speech...makes him a difficult character to compete against.

If he isn't tagged out by any single moral issue....then Hillary, Gore, and McCain are finished when you bring up past history. He appears to have moral high ground....and that carries the heartland in any race. The MSM could make this guy a poster child and carry him the last mile. 2008 promises the best presidential race in 50 years.