Chicago Law School faculty hated Obama

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The smartest genius President evah is nothing more than a carboard cutout. A fraud. Doesn't exist. We don't even know how he did in school because to this day his transcripts are sealed. Turns out now that when he was an instructor at the Chicago, his colleagues who were actual Professors didn't like him and didn't want him. Obama's position was obtained through political channels.

Is the President's resume accurate when it comes to his career and qualifications? I can corroborate that Obama's "teaching career" at Chicago was, to put it kindly, a sham.

I spent some time with the highest tenured faculty member at Chicago Law a few months back, and he did not have many nice things to say about "Barry." Obama applied for a position as an adjunct and wasn't even considered. A few weeks later the law school got a phone call from the Board of Trustees telling them to find him an office, put him on the payroll, and give him a class to teach. The Board told him he didn't have to be a member of the faculty, but they needed to give him a temporary position. He was never a professor and was hardly an adjunct.

The other professors hated him because he was lazy, unqualified, never attended any of the faculty meetings, and it was clear that the position was nothing more than a political stepping stool. According to my professor friend, he had the lowest intellectual capacity in the building. He also doubted whether he was legitimately an editor on the Harvard Law Review, because if he was, he would be the first and only editor of an Ivy League law review to never be published while in school (publication is or was a requirement).

Consider this: 1. President Barack Obama, former editor of the Harvard Law Review, is no longer a "lawyer". He surrendered his license back in 2008 possibly to escape charges that he "fibbed" on his bar application. ...

4. A senior lecturer is one thing. A fully ranked law professor is another. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, "Obama did NOT 'hold the title' of a University of Chicago law school professor". Barack Obama was NOT a Constitutional Law professor at the University of Chicago.

5. The University of Chicago released a statement in March, 2008 saying Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) "served as a professor" in the law school, but that is a title Obama, who taught courses there part-time, never held, a spokesman for the school confirmed in 2008.

6. "He did not hold the title of professor of law," said Marsha Ferziger Nagorsky, an Assistant Dean for Communications and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago School of Law.

7. The former Constitutional senior lecturer cited the U.S. Constitution recently during his State of the Union Address. Unfortunately, the quote he cited was from the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.

10. By the way, the promises are not a notion, our founders named them unalienable rights. The document is our Declaration of Independence and it reads: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

11. And this is the same guy who lectured the Supreme Court moments later in the same speech?

When you are a phony it's hard to keep facts straight.

For a constitutional senior lecturer, it's also noteworthy that Obama doesn't know what car insurance covers

UPDATE: Doug Ross updates with this: Most Transparent President Ever Has Bar Records Redacted This Week, Leaving Only Traces of His Existence Some Betamax Videos and a Fraternity Pin

President Obama's Occidental College transcripts have never been released. His Columbia transcripts are, likewise, AWOL. And his Harvard Law transcripts also haven't been made public. Finally, it's reported, he never published any articles while at Harvard, yet somehow served as Editor of Law Review. That would make him unique among editors, according to insiders.

Even John "D Student" Kerry was guilt-tripped into releasing his transcripts.

Curiously, since I relayed a report of Obama's "teaching career" at Chicago (he was apparently never a law professor, as some have claimed), the Illinois Bar has decided to partially redact what little public information it had available on its website related to the President's legal status.

UPDATE #2: Another from Doug Ross: Rub a dub dub, how many IDs does one profile need?

An anonymous tipster points out that the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission of Illinois has gone through some amazing contortions maintaining a single database record for a retired attorney named Barack Obama.

Obama is only transparent in the sense that his past is invisible.

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LOL

[DrC]

“According to this article, Richard Nixon was also president of the Review.”

I think you misread this:
Irwin Griswold, a dean of the Harvard Law School and Solicitor General under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon.

The reference was to Griswold’s serving under Nixon. Nixon went to Duke Law School, not that any of its professors are particularly eager to publicize that fact.

But there was one other interesting quote in that article:
“Law reviews, which are edited by students, play a double role at law schools, providing a chance for students to improve their legal research and writing”

It’s pretty obvious from his behavior that Obama did NOT take this opportunity to improve his legal research or writing. An ambitious HLR president with even a modicum of work ethic might well have taken the same opportunity to actually chip in and help out and/or accomplish some other initiatives related to HLR (e.g., raise funds to endow its operations etc.). Obama’s about collecting trophies. Being HLR president was a means to and end—no more, no less.

[murron]

I keep the books at a Law Review, and I interact with the students a lot. They have to write notes and comments for credits. The editor in chief particularly is expected to write for one of the issues. This is why I find it strange that as head of the Harvard Law Review particularly, one of the most prestigious law reviews in the country, he didn’t contribute at all.

[DrC]

“The editor in chief particularly is expected to write for one of the issues.”

Right, but Obama was not editor, he was president of HLR. I don’t know how many journals have both positions or how the responsibilities are supposed to divide between them. My impression is that Obama viewed his role as “figurehead” whereas the complaints from the editor at the time suggests others thought he should have rolled up his sleeves to help out more than he did.

I think what’s key is that law reviews tend to attract individuals with a passion for writing and learning how to do that better. Regardless of expectations, the HLR president surely COULD have made written contributions to the review had he elected to do so. That Obama elected not to do so displays a curious lack of ambition (or at least a very different form of ambition in which he sought positions not to actually DO anything, but as a stepping stone to higher office etc.). It’s hard to imagine a John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, or Samuel Alito being content to do so little with such an honor. ‘Nuf said.