N.J. man named to Obama's team, Seton Hall professor tapped to oversee policy development

Star Ledger ^ | 02.08.07 | JOHN FARMER

[Coleus]

As Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois gets ready to announce his run for president tomorrow, Mark C. Alexander, a 42-year-old Seton Hall University law professor and Montclair resident, is preparing to direct the candidate's issues team.

With the title of "policy director," Alexander said he will work to develop positions and policy options for Obama on such critical topics as Iraq, health care, energy alternatives, the Israel-Palestinian struggle and how to deal with the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and Iran.   Alexander said he served a similar function when he worked on former New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley's 2000 presidential campaign and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's 1998 re-election campaign in Massachusetts. "It's basically the same job," Alexander said in an interview at his law school office. "It's public policy."

Alexander said he owes his connection with Obama to his sister Elizabeth, now a professor at Yale Law School. She introduced them "10 or 12 years ago" when she and Obama were teaching law at the University of Chicago.   "She recognized we had a lot in common," Alexander said -- young lawyers, with liberal political leanings, active in community organizing, both African-American.    The two men kept in touch over the years, Alexander said, and in recent months talked about Obama's presidential campaign prospects. "I made it clear I'd be happy to help," Alexander said, and Obama asked him aboard about a month ago.

He'll take a leave of absence from his tenured post at Seton Hall at the end of February to begin recruiting a policy staff and shaping an Obama issues agenda.   Representatives of the not-yet-official campaign did not return phone calls yesterday seeking comment on Alexander's planned role.   In a sense, the policy post is more important for Obama

[Coleus]

Seton Hall Law, par for the course. The professors actively recruited students to work for the McGreevey campaign. The school invited McGreevey to speak on the Roe v. Wade anniversary, invited pro-abortion speakers at commencement and gave awards to pro-abortion judges.

[Incorrigible]

Seton Hall strikes again? Will they name another building after this corrupt guy?

[Txsleuth]

Jeez...that one guy is supposed to make policy on ALL of those different topics??

I hope he buys big flash cards to teach Obama what foreign policy is..and where the different countries are on the map.

[technomage]

A professor? From a university???

They must be wrong. Everyone knows that teachers, professors, are politicaly neutral and never to try bias their students.

[mkjessup]

The junior, half-term Senator from Illinois wants to be President.

He took courses in international relations.

What more could we ask for in relevant experience?

Pardon me while I laugh my ass off.

The following Fine Fellow Freeper of ours has it nailed, but good:

http://www.freerepublic.com/~beckwith/

Well done Beckwith, well done indeed!

[The Cuban]

Though a demo-rat this man is an excellent professor, and was actually, believe it or not, extremely neutral in his class, indeed he was quite inscrutable.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

So I guess this guy has all the solutions to all the world's problems? Heck, make him president then!

[Fresh Wind]

I hope he buys big flash cards to teach Obama what foreign policy is..and where the different countries are on the map.

Oh, that won't be necessary. Obama has told us that he studied overseas and lived in another country (through the age of 10). Therefore, he knows everything he needs to know about the world.

[jmaroneps37]

This what Seton Hall says about itself:


"Catholic Values Shape the Seton Hall Community
It doesn't take much time on the Seton Hall campus to realize that you are part of a community guided by faith. Whether this first becomes apparent when you see priests eating alongside you in the cafeteria or when walking past our beautiful historic chapel, you will quickly learn that our Catholic tradition is a big part of who we are."

Now someone should ask Monsignor Robert Sheeran the
President of Seton Hall how having a professor that actively supports a man who has voted FOR killing babies actually born after botched abortions. Yes that's right abracadabra as an Ill. State Senator voted to allow doctors to murder their mistakes when abortions go "wrong" and the baby is born alive. Yes kill them right then and there in the operating room. Nice eh Monsignor Sheeran?

Seton Hall is just another fake Catholic school.

[The Cuban]

Actually it is the student body that is pro-abort. Bishop Meyers keeps a tight leash on the place since it is technically "his" school. Only when certain things fall through the cracks are pro-abortists able to come on campus. For example, I remember the School refused to allow McGreevey to speak when he was governor.

[Coleus]

thanks for the link and the research.

[Beckwith]

"She recognized we had a lot in common."