Posted on 01/20/2009 1:03:18 PM PST by bs9021
Professors Heart Obama (Again)
by: Bethany Stotts, January 20, 2009
January 20th is Inauguration Day for President Barack Obama, and Professor Andrew William Smith will certainly be among those celebrating this historic occasion. The editor at Interference.com, Professor Smith wrote on January 19th that “When U2’s anthem “Pride” first brought tears to my idealistic teenage eyes in 1984, I never imagined I’d watch the band perform the song on a January day on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial just hours before the inauguration of America’s first black president.”
“While I believed then and now in dreaming the impossible, I never imagined this day would be possible in my lifetime.”
The Tennessee Technical University (TTU) professor was just as enthusiastic during his speech on December 29th. He told a Modern Language Association (MLA) audience that “Back in early January [2007] Barack’s speeches packed an emotional spell that left me spellbound and speechless.”
Professor Smith continued, “Instead of investigating the intellectual blind-spots that left me so vulnerable to these political sermons, I watched myself leave the apartment one Saturday morning to meet the local Obama supporters at a coffee house, to go door to door in the neighborhoods near my campus, canvassing for Obama, seeking support for the upcoming Tennessee primary.”
Abandoning objectivity in his “scholarly” presentation—which is typically expected for these panels—Professor Smith said that his “talk’s going to be fairly unconventional for a scholarly talk...and what happened when I actually sat down to write the paper, the paper itself sort of got swept up into that rhetoric and so as much as I will be analyzing the rhetoric of a particular moment in the campaign which is sort of the creamy center of my talk, the actual talk itself is in the rhetoric of the campaign.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreportonline.net ...
And some of you out there are spending $40,000 per year for this twit to indoctrinate your kids!
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