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Obama's rise to the threshold of the presidency is nothing if not magically swift. Just about this time 20 years ago, he was preparing to enter Harvard Law School in the fall of 1988. His election two years later to president of the Harvard Law Review as the first "black" to hold that position is the linchpin of his entire subsequent career, a chronology of which follows:

Late 1988, entered Harvard Law School.
Summer 1989, interned at the law firm of Sidley & Austin in Chicago.
Feb. 1990, elected president of the Harvard Law Review. This was widely reported and was followed in the media by several long, detailed profiles.
Summer 1990, interned at the law firm of Hopkins & Sutter in Chicago.
1991, graduated from Harvard and returned to Chicago. He was recruited by the University of Chicago Law School, which gave him a fellowship and an office to work on a book about race relations. Obama never wrote that book. Instead, he and his wife went to Bali, where he wrote "Dreams From My Father." (Obama was a Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992–1996, and a Senior Lecturer 1996–2004.)
Apr-Oct. 1992, Obama directed Illinois Project Vote.
1993, Obama joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development. He was an associate from 1993 to 1996, then of counsel from 1996 to 2004. His law license becoming inactive in 2002.
1995, "Dreams From My Father" was published.
1996, Obama is elected to the Illinois state senate, where he served until being elected to the U.S. Senate.
2004, Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate. (He delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004, before the election.) He was sworn in early in January 2005, and immediately began planning his run for the presidency.
Oct. 2006, "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream" was published.
Feb. 2007, Obama announced his candidacy for president. He had been a U.S. senator for just two years.

BTW, in addition to his breathtaking race up the ladder during those years, Obama served on a number of boards of directors between 1992 and 2002.

Let me make this as crystal clear as possible. OBAMA ANNOUNCED FOR THE PRESIDENCY ON THE BASIS OF 8 YEARS AS A STATE SENATOR AND 2 YEARS AS A U.S. SENATOR. That's it. That's the basis on which this man is building his presidential run. That, and his gadfly hopping around from one patronage position to another during the 1990's.

ALL of it rests on one affirmative-action achievement, which was his election as the first "black" president of the Harvard Law Review.

There are plenty of fully black high achievers in this country who are more qualified to be president than this arrogant twit. So why Obama? What, or who, made a junior senator think he should even consider a run for the presidency with such a light resume? Either he's the luckiest SOB on the planet, or he's somebody's sock puppet front man. There simply is no other logical conclusion.