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The NYT really lays it on thick here. Rush Limbaugh does a better job exposing Obama's legal philosophy here .
1 posted on 05/03/2009 7:32:36 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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...but a careful pragmatist with a limited view of the role of courts.

Limited meaning.....

.....a hard left, pro world view, anti-Constitutionalist

2 posted on 05/03/2009 7:40:41 AM PDT by SteamShovel (Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
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The author...

Kool aid runs in her veins.

3 posted on 05/03/2009 7:41:31 AM PDT by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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When will the NYT give it up? Do they really think anyone’s interested in their nonstop propaganda?


4 posted on 05/03/2009 7:43:17 AM PDT by Spok
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He was never a professor.

Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years, as a Lecturer for four years (1992–1996), and as a Senior Lecturer for eight years (1996–2004). During this time he taught courses in due process and equal protection, voting rights, and racism and law. He published no legal scholarship, and turned down tenured positions, but served eight years in the Illinois Senate during his twelve years at the university.

5 posted on 05/03/2009 7:43:34 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (American Revolution II -- overdue)
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As far as I know Obama was never a law professor, he was a lecturer. To my knowledge he never wrote a single ‘review’ during his affirmative action stint at Harvard. But I am glad to know that the NYT is really impressed by notes in all caps,

WHY DON'T YOU EDIT THIS GARBAGE BEFORE YOU PRINT IT.

6 posted on 05/03/2009 7:46:37 AM PDT by Old North State
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Curious ... is there any way to verify or disprove that Obama had to take the Illinois bar exam several times before passing, or was it his wife Michelle?
7 posted on 05/03/2009 7:46:57 AM PDT by BluH2o
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Lets state This Clearly!

OBAMA NEVER WAS A PROFESSOR OF LAW OR ANYTHING ELSE!!!
OBAMA WAS NEVER CLOSE TO EVER BEING ANY KIND OF PROFESSOR OF ANYTHING!!!

OBAMA WAS A LOWLY INSTRUCTOR OF LAW WHO FOR SOME MOST LIKELY SINISTER REASON LOST HIS LAW LICENSE!!

THERE IS A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE IN ACADEMIA BETWEEN BEING A PROFESSOR AND A LOWLY, TWO BIT INSTRUCTOR!! WORSE YET, IS TO MISLEAD AND LIE TO THE PUBLIC ABOUT ONE”S RECORD AND VITAE’!

The NEW YORK TIMES is knowingly Lieing about Obama’s past accomplishmnts which in reality are basically ZERO!


9 posted on 05/03/2009 7:50:07 AM PDT by True Republican Patriot (GOD BLESS AMERICA and Our Last Great President George W. Bush)
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LOL, Obama is going to appoint a Marxist who puts more weight in international law than he does the constitution. There is no doubt about it. Of course from the NYT’s perspective, that is a Moderate.


10 posted on 05/03/2009 7:51:52 AM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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“Professor”?!?! The only thing he is qualified to be a Professor of is himself.


14 posted on 05/03/2009 8:03:32 AM PDT by mkcc30 ("Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.")
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He's a centrist only in the view of the New York Times. He's a left-wing ideologue to normal folks.

I will give them credit here, though: The only significant source that I have seen for any detail on the Kenyan Clown's teaching career was in this 2008 New York Times article: Teaching Law, Testing Ideas, Obama Stood Slightly Apart.

In particular, that article interestingly enough includes some of the materials from his classes over the years:

Syllabus: Current Issues in Racism and the Law

2003 Final Exam

2002 Final Exam

2001 Final Exam

2000 Final Exam

1999 Final Exam

1998 Exam

1997 Final Exam and its Answer Memo

1996 Final Exam and its Answer Memo


16 posted on 05/03/2009 8:14:47 AM PDT by snowsislander (NRA -- join today! 1-877-NRA-2000)
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Reading the article this morning the following caught my eye:

“...Mr. Obama often expressed concern that “democracy could be dangerous,” Mr. Stone said, that the majority can be “unempathetic — that’s a word that Barack has used — about the concerns of outsiders and minorities.”

“Unempathetic? Why did the author emphasize that word? Who is Mr. Stone and what are his views? Well, google the word "unempathetic", my FreeRepublic friends, and a magical world opens unto thee! From the Huffington Post, to Greenpeace; "unempathetic" is almost like the mandatory interjected "sort of" of NPR speak.

Well, as Hunter S. Thompson wrote, "when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

I think with this Obama group in office, the antecedant has been satisfied...

So, get weird and dive in, Freepers. Because to understand Obama, or have the "Keyes" to Obama, requires some easy fun reading as, getting back to the article, the author supports:

Even as law review president, Mr. Obama de-emphasized his own views and instead made himself a channel for those of others. His decision making was “about the group sentiment and what the group majority might agree to,” said Nancy McCullough, a fellow editor.

18 posted on 05/03/2009 8:35:36 AM PDT by Voter62vb
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Zero was not a professor. He was an instructor... lecturer.


23 posted on 05/03/2009 9:09:18 AM PDT by ataDude (To quote rockabyebaby.... we are soooooooo screwed.)
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From Obama’s test instructions 2003:p> 1. This is an open book exam. You may use any materials or notes used in our class. You may not refer to cases, articles, material drawn for the internet, or any material that were not used in class.

In other words: “You must get to mandated point A, I will give you all the support to get there. Don’t color outside the lines.”

It is the way the left makes people feel smart by “allowing” people and groups to be creative and think their way to the “only conclusion “.

People get lost seeing the trees, not seeing the forest and really forgetting why the hell we’re in the forest anyway. Power is controlling the whole argument from the faulty facts and lies forward - just make sure the kids get to the gift shop on the field trip.

The secret is that when you're given a rope, the only answer they will be happy with is when you hang yourself....hmmmm

27 posted on 05/03/2009 9:40:41 AM PDT by Voter62vb
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“Later, as a law professor, he led students through landmark cases from Plessy v. Ferguson to Bush v. Gore. (He sometimes shared his own copies, marked with emphatic underlines and notes in bold, all-caps script.)”

NONE of which have ever seen the public light of day, and are not likely to either.


28 posted on 05/03/2009 11:08:52 AM PDT by Wuli
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The former Mr. Soetoro’s “career” as a “law professor,” has been grossly exaggerated. He was an adjunct instructor.

The NYT is merely bolstering the official hagiography of Obama I, Saviour of Our Nation and Its Way of Life as He Sees It.


31 posted on 05/03/2009 1:24:47 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (The Election of 2008: Given the choice between stupid and evil, the stupid chose evil.)
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