Good question, the way he refers to Chicago, I thought for a long time, he was from there.
I have yet to see any proof that he is smarted than a bag of rocks.
Neither he nor his mother’s family ever resided in Chicago prior to his landing there in 1985 after graduating from Columbia in 83. He went from Hawaii where he graduated from high school to California and spent 2 yrs. at Occidental College. Seems coincidental that he ends up in Chicago, the hometown of Bill Ayers who just happens to be in NYC, where Obama had just left. And just up and leaves his job as a researcher for some company in NY for what? To go to Chicago, of all places, to become a community organizer. It’s just odd. It’s incongruent. What did he do, just throw a dart at a map? He has to go all the way to Chicago to do something he’s not even been trained for? They don’t have community organizing opportunities in NY? Or Hawaii where he’s from? The only connection to Chicago is Ayers. Then, down the road, he happens to get involved in a progressive education organization, the Woods Foundation, another area he has no background in, but again, we see an Ayers connection. To me, it doesn’t pass the smell test.