Obama has exploited his race to his advantage. Getting to be the head of Harvard Law review was easy - he arrived at the perfect time and when Harvard and similar institutions had to show their "progressive" colors. Traveling to Chicago to practice politics was a natural to further his career.

And becoming a lawyer isn't all that tough either. It's simply a matter of memorizing a large quantity of material prior to tests and putting in the time with the books. Anyone who has spent time with a bunch of lawyers realizes they are not as smart as they would like people to believe they are. ;-)

Intelligence is far more than being able to memorize, study and perform. It's more than simply learning to manipulate and exploit your environment and others to get ahead.

Intelligence is not just knowledge either, but the ability to recombine knowledge in such ways as to create NEW ideas and NEW knowledge to both better yourself and by default - the universe around you.

Knowledge without intelligent purpose becomes a walking one volume Columbia Encyclopedia.

Obama and Hillary both have street smarts. Hillary is "old" though and is already at a disadvantage in popularity contests. Obama versus the Hillary of 1996? No contest. Hillary would clean Obama's clock.

Looking at the demographics Obama has been buoyed solely by ever large ethnic populations in the various states who are not particularly well educated and these masses are decorated by a fringe of "white collar" ultra-leftists who tend to exploit these same uneducated hand-out masses.

The hand-out masses would vote for Lenin himself if he were alive and ran for President. To be blunt, and put the Obama supporters in perspective, 99% of them wouldn't even recognize who Lenin is or attach any meaning to him. 5 percent might think he was part of an "ancient" music group called the Beatles.

They just want the guy giving the hand-out who promises to loot the rich. Period.