Syndicated columnist Thomas Sowell examines the strange phenomenon of Barack Obama's appeal to people who know very little about the Democratic Party presidential nominee.

From his latest column:

Of the four people running for president and vice president on the Republican and Democratic tickets, the one we know the least about is the one leading in the polls — Obama.

Some of Sen. Obama's most fervent supporters could not tell you what he has actually done on such issues as crime, education or financial institutions like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, much less what he plans to do to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear nation supplying nuclear weapons to the international terrorist networks that it has supplied with other weapons.

The magic word "change" makes specifics unnecessary. If things are going bad, some think that what is needed is blank-check "change." But history shows any number of countries in crises worse than ours, where "change" turned problems into catastrophes.

Read the full column, "Change Means Never Having To Face Facts," at the Investor's Business Daily Web site.