One of the things that was mentioned over the weekend, was that Big media and the "old guard" major newspapers in the north east wanted Obama to be the next president. They did not really investigate or publish many of his associates or hold him to the same level of criticism and scrutiny that they did of other democratic candidates and certainly not of the level they did to republican candidates. Nothing really came out publically in main stream media until after the super tuesday elections, which by then, Obama had built up such a lead over Clinton that she could not over take him. If you look at his primary election results after Super Tuesday and when you started to hear things in the mass media regarding his background and his policies in more detail, he did very poorly in the following elections and Hillary did very well. My point is that if the media had treated him the same as all of the other candidates, he would not be the democratic candidate for president now.