The American Thinker reports on Barack Obama's mysterious lack of a professional track record. Some of the sloppy writing in this piece bothers me, yet read the whole article, because the author brings up many points that have been raised before by plucky skeptics. Of course, the mainstream media has been too busy worshipping the new Savior and King to to bother with any of it.

Barack Obama originally emerged on the national scene as the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. This selection may have been based on factors that do not necessarily reflect merit, as he himself recognizes.

He has refused to answer questions about his days at Harvard (such holes in his life are a recurring feature). He was clearly a man of promise given the historic step that was taken when he was appointed President of the Law Review.

Has he fulfilled his promise as a legal scholar?

One thing he did not do while at the review was publish his own work. The absence of a paper trail is a pattern throughout his academic and to some extent his political career.

The pattern of leaving no intellectual footprints pre-dates Harvard. He has claimed he lost his senior thesis from Columbia University, where he majored in political science. The thesis was on Soviet nuclear disarmament.

...Indeed, he has left little in the way of a record for Americans to judge his legal abilities. No written records, no signed legal papers, no research papers authored or co-authored by him. Nothing.

This is especially surprising because he served as a senior lecturer and law professor (there is some dispute over his title) at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years.

Obama only went to Harvard Law School because his establishment buddies placed him there. He went to law school for the same reasons that all politicians go to law school - he went to launch his political career and start his all-or-nothing climb to the Oval Office.