By the way, twerpo, your description might as well suit Abraham Lincoln, elected President from a redneck state with practically no Washington experience. Or that nasty aggressive plebeian hated by the whole Washington establishment, Andrew Jackson. Or Theodore Roosevelt. Or even Truman. Or those inexperienced bible-belt redneck state governors, Carter and Clinton. The American system is designed to let in outsiders and avoid the formation of an upper crust; for which you should be devoutly thankful, rather than queue up to swallow establishment lies when one such outsider upsets the applecart. We desperately need such a system in Europe, where party rule has destroyed anything but the semblance of democracy. And what I complain of in Obama, abortion apart, is not that he is an outsider, but that he is not outsider enough.