I don't happen to agree with your assessment Ebbie, I think that SW is probably correct and that areas of Mr Obama's past are being hidden. Whether or not public awareness of these areas would make Mr Obama a better president is debatable.

I think the whole furore says more about the state of US politics in general, than it does about Mr Obama personally.

Mr Obama has turned out to be exactly what I thought he would.....A creature of the system", not a "messiah", nor a "black man" of the stature of Dr King.