  “Never Again,” Obama Style  No president in modern times has
managed to conceal so much of his biography as this one.  The
journalists assigned to the Obama beat seem to have lost their
traditional avidity for digging out the missing details.   We do
not have a medical report, or a college transcript from
Columbia, or a notion of how well he did in Harvard Law School.
These things are not automatically significant, but they can
be.  Nobody thinks the president has some basic medical
problem.  He shows every sign of being in excellent physical
condition.  But so did John F. Kennedy, who turned out to have
had Addison’s Disease, and was taking steroids and pain killers,
which had an effect on his performance.  We didn’t know it at
the time.  We should have.  What did Obama study?  With whom? 
How well did he do?  Obama occasionally says things that are
uncharacteristic of cultured persons, as when he flubs the
number of states in the U.S., or when he seems to believe that
they speak “Austrian” in Vienna.  Ar