Obama has no experience/record.

[Stranger in a strange land]

I think not having a record can actually HELP you in a presidential election.George W. Bush was only governor of Texas for six years, in which time he didn't do a whole lot. And if Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review and a professor at UChicago, he clearly isn't the Edwards-style lightweight people are saying he is.

Just look at how much John Kerry's 20 year senate record helped him! Republicans completely turned it on him and it became arguably his biggest weakness.

So what if he did drugs when he was a teenager! Nobody cares anymore! Nobody cares that Bush snorted coke and was an alcoholic in college. Nobody (except a few conservative talk radio hosts) cares that Bill Clinton smoked weed in his youth. At least Obama is honest enough to admit it!

The only thing that I think could hurt him is his name, but he'll make short work of anyone who tries to use it against him by pointing out that the name his mother gave him in 1961 is completely irrelevent to anything going on in the world now. Either way however, whenever Obama runs for president, the election will be full of nasty race-baiting that will make "Harold, Call Me" look like a commercial for tolerance! It'll play well in the south and may cost Obama the popular vote, but it'll turn off voters elsewhere and may even end up electing him.