Straight outta Compton (Hawaii)
We heard it again from Obama this past week, regarding his executive orders affecting Second Amendment rights, how he taught constitutional law and further saying that: “I believe in the Second Amendment. It’s there written on paper’” Profound, really profound .
Accordingly, this, excerpt should be a “must have” addition for all those collectors of “Professor” Obama’s “autobiographies.” It is from his “autobiography” by Bill Ayres. Does it not drip with irony, looking back over the past 7 years?
…”Ultimately, though, I believe any attempt by Democrats to pursue a more sharply partisan and ideological strategy misapprehends the moment we’re in. I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it’s precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face as a country. It’s what keeps us locked in “either/or” thinking: the notion that we can have only big government or no government; the assumption that we must either tolerate forty-six million without health insurance or embrace “socialized medicine”. It is such doctrinaire thinking and stark partisanship that have turned Americans off of politics. ”
― Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Regarding Obama’s professorship . . .
In spite of the University of Chicago’s rather lax standards for the title “professor” most part-time lecturers without tenure, not involved in the academic pecking order, and not intending to, (all apply to Obama) would demure from the use of the title. Well, those with integrity anyway. Even the Pope does not personally call himself a scientist, leaving that falsity for those trying to embellish his climate warming creds. Maybe it doesn’t matter, one can be a “professor” or a “scientist” and be dead wrong, full of yourself and other stuff.
Karen McQuillan writing at American Thinker describes Obama’s “professorship.” (excerpts)
Here’s what ‘constitutional scholar’ Obama really taught at law school
Among 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 Amerces’. . . .
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. (ed. note nothing about the Second Amendment) . . .
Lie three: Obama calls himself a constitutional law prof to imply that he loves the Constitution. Obama gives the lie to this himself. He is on record . . . slamming the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Constitution because they never tried to invent a right to “redistribute wealth” . . .
More of McQuillan’s article is available here.
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