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You're a lying sack of shit, just like your man Obama.
After eight years, you still don't know anything at all about Obama.
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Here's what 'constitutional scholar' Obama really taught at law schoolAmong the lies about himself Obama consistently repeats is that he was a constitutional law professor.
Lie one: Obama was never a professor; he was a lecturer. He did not have the qualifications to be a professor. Obama never published a single law paper. He was hired by the University of Chicago when they learned he had been given a book contract on race and law directly after graduating from Harvard. There was no book – just the contract, which he later reneged on. This is not the normal level of accomplishment for a University of Chicago professor or even lecturer.
Obama was not capable of writing, and eventually, after failing to deliver, he changed it to a memoir, which he also struggled with. Finally, he asked Bill Ayers to write his memoir for him, using tapes that Michelle dropped off at the Ayerses'.
Lie two: Obama did not specialize in the Constitution. Obama cared about and taught only one subject: race. One course was about race in the Constitution. It is on this flimsy basis that he attempts to pawn himself off as a constitutional scholar.
As the New York Times explains, Obama the lecturer taught three subjects only: "race, rights and gender."
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http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/04/30/barack-obama-was-my-teacherI attended the University of Chicago Law School in the late 1990s, and one of the professors was a man in his 30s. He had two young daughters, two large student-loan debt loads, and three jobs. He was a lawyer in a civil rights firm, a state senator making the 180-mile drive to Springfield, and a teacher at the law school. To find the time to teach classes when the Illinois General Assembly was meeting in Springfield, he would come to the law school Monday mornings at 8 a.m. for a 90-minute class, then come back Friday afternoons at 4 p.m. for the second 90-minute class.
Let me tell you a little bit about that teacher, Barack Obama.
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Law professors sometimes behave like the smartest people in the room, if not the world. They pontificate to the class and encourage students to marvel at their eloquence and faculties. Not Professor Obama. He insisted on class discussions and required students to share their views and defend them. Even though he probably was the smartest guy in the room, he never acted like it.
After law school I had the chance to work a little bit with state Sen. Obama before he was elected to the United States Senate in 2004. Although I volunteered extensively on his 2004 Senate primary campaign, I hadn’t had a chance to talk to him since then—until last month, when my brother was asked to speak at the White House student film festival. I went as my brother’s guest, with no idea whether President Obama would remember me from his Professor Obama days.I was surprised to find that not only did he remember me, but he also was genuinely excited to see me again, and it made me reflect on how our 44th president stood out as an educator.
Like all great teachers, Obama taught by example. He taught me the value of diligence. I saw him hustle three jobs at once. I saw him run for Congress in 2000, lose, and then return to the race. I saw him shopping at the grocery store at 10 p.m., still wearing his suit after a long night on the campaign trail with a list that our now first lady, Michelle Obama, presumably made. He made it look easy, but I saw how much hard work went into his success. I saw how failure—deep, public, humiliating, no-excuses, question-your-career failure—happens to the best of us. The lesson: Don’t give up.
I went to law school to try to learn how to change the world. Obama’s class on voting rights and the law was about how the “system”—the rules of democracy that decide who gets to run the government—is, like any set of laws, imperfect but absolutely malleable.
He taught us that the system itself can be changed—and it has been changing, constantly, over the years. I learned that changing the system to make our democracy more democratic and our representatives more representative only happens if people engage as part of the current imperfect regime. Getting angry and denouncing the whole system might make you feel good, but it doesn’t result in any improvements. Change happens over years and decades, not weeks or months—but it happens, because lots of regular people worked at it, fully aware of their limitations to implement reform and still committed to trying, one law at a time.
Professor Obama had a passion for making social change, but like the rest of us, he was also navigating an uncertain world. He showed that I could be a hard-core progressive burning for social justice while tempering that passion with the humility of recognizing that my opinion wasn’t yet shared by a majority of my fellow citizens, much less a majority of legislators. He taught me—by example, as a state legislator—that spending time and energy on making a small change and accepting compromise was a lot better than accomplishing nothing.
Professor Obama taught me that the point of politics is not to gain more power, or to defeat opponents, or to become more famous. The point—and the ultimate measure of success—is whether other people’s lives are improved. That’s it. That goal is worth our time, energy, and effort.
He also taught me that the impact of a great teacher, like the impact of a great leader, lasts forever.