This will be brief. I just read the Times' latest article in its "Long Run" series, chronicling the lives of our two potential Presidents prior to their current positions. Knowing that Barack Obama taught at the University of Chicago's Law School, I have wondered what students exposed to Barack Obama the intellectual had to say.

I think the article's last paragraph sums it up nicely:

Fine. I will admit that constitutional law, especially as taught at U Chicago, is probably not something the average person could ever be expected to understand. But still I wonder, have we become so afraid or so reluctant to think that we have decided to so blindly follow others?

While it would be derisible to suggest Senator Obama has yet to earn my vote come November, it would make me much less worried, checking that box, as it were, to see Barack Obama the professor.