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A reader writes:

While there is much talk of Obama’s experience as a community organizer and state legislator, the true formative experiences that have marked the man are his 19 years in the academy: four years as an undergraduate at Columbia, three years as a student at Harvard Law, and twelve years as an adjunct professor at the University of Chicago Law School.

Professor Obama has all of the strengths and weakness of a first-class academic. He is an excellent lecturer (but an inexperienced debater). He is a font of attractive ideas (but he has never put anything into practice in the real world). He is infinitely confident of his own abilities (but he hasn’t had enough real experience to learn about his weaknesses).

Ideologically and socially, he seems to share much with the left-liberals that dominate our leading schools: a distance and disdain for the common man (even while exalting the working people of America); and a sense that the American right wing is both selfish and dead wrong about how the country works.

As usual, Bill Buckley had it right: “I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.”

I will not be voting for Professor Obama.