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To: Prokopton
I wish I would stop hearing that he was a law professor. He wasn't. STOP SUPPORTING HIS PRETEND GAME.
He was an “adjunct” professor. Adjunct means: not the real thing. Sort of like the real thing, but in a subordinate and supportive role. Look it up in the dictionary. In other words, he was not part of the official staff, but from the outside, teaching a class instead of the professor, functioning like a professor. To do that, all he had to do was read the book and fake out the students. If you don't succeed in faking out the students, but give easy tests and good grades, no student is going to blow your cover.(And a lazy professor could do worse.)
To call Zero a professor because he was an “adjunct professor” is like saying you have discovered gold, when you have actually discovered “fool's gold.”
I am sure there can be some actually qualified “adjunct” professors, but in Obama’s case, he could have affirmative action degrees, be a good talker, give easy tests and good grades. He could get by just fine, especially if he was teaching other affirmative action students.
14 posted on 02/19/2009 10:33:52 PM PST by broncobilly
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To: broncobilly
I wish I would stop hearing that he was a law professor. He wasn't. STOP SUPPORTING HIS PRETEND GAME.

I'm not the one that called him a law professor, I merely responded to someone who did.

That being said, I have found people who are adjunct professors to be, by and large, superior to tenured professors. Tenured professors are often incredibly lazy, knowing it's almost impossible to fire them, and many are only interested in their own parochial work and have little interest in actually teaching students. Their are many reasons that a person is an adjunct professor and not a tenured professor and most of these have to do with the college/university saving money. Many adjunct professors are specialists in their field and only teach part time because they have other jobs, again demonstrating their superiority to tenured professors.

I have no idea of the quality of work Obama did as an adjunct professor but I certainly would not denigrate him because he was not one of the tenured elites known more for propagandizing our children then performing any valuable task for society.

18 posted on 02/20/2009 7:24:00 AM PST by Prokopton
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To: broncobilly

I taught chemistry labs in college. That didn’t make me a chemistry professor.


27 posted on 02/20/2009 11:06:17 AM PST by DallasMike
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