Online Background Checks

If you've spent any time wandering the Internet lately you've seen the pop-up and pop-under ad by a company selling its background investigative services. They can determine criminal records, financial standing, school records, all the basic stuff you'd like to know before hiring an employee, for instance.

Well, I wonder; is it too late, or could we still run Barack H. Obama? I really would be curious to learn if he has the credentials to be President other than the obvious, the ability to talk his way into the office.