No 'Professor' Obama at U. of C. (Flashback, Lied on Resume)

Chicago Sun Times ^ | March 2008

[mnehring]

WASHINGTON -- The University of Chicago released a statement Thursday saying Sen. Barack Obama "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 on Friday.

"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 school.

The U. of C. statement was posted on the school's Web site two days after the Clinton campaign issued a memo headlined: "Just Embellished Words: Senator Obama's Record of Exaggerations & Misstatements."

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

you know what really kills me??? his paperwork trail when he was in the Illinois State Senate- nothing, nada, zip, not even a shred of a schedule.

[Stand Watch Listen]

Who is Barrack Obama??

Original birth certificate — Not released
Obama/Dunham marriage license — Not released
Soetoro/Dunham marriage license — Not released
Soetoro adoption records — Not released
Besuki School application — Released
Punahou School records — Not released
Selective Service Registration — Released and under suspicion
Occidental College records — Not released
Passport (Pakistan) — Not released
Columbia College records — Not released
Columbia thesis — Not released
Harvard College records — Not released
Harvard Law Review articles — None (maybe 1, unsigned?)
Baptism certificate — None
Medical records — Not released
Illinois State Senate records — None
Illinois State Senate schedule — Lost
Law practice client list — Not released
University of Chicago scholarly articles — Lost

[Steve_Seattle]

Although the media routinely describe Obama as having been a college "professor," he was no such thing; he wasn't much more than a glorified teaching assistant. He was not a full professor, nor an associate professor, nor an assistant professor - he was a lecturer, and usually only a part-time lecturer.

The story also says that "professors" usually teach the core courses, but that's not my experience. The core courses (lower level, mandatory courses) are usually taught by T.A.'s, lecturers, and assistant professors. The full professors and associate professors concentrate on research and upper-level courses.

Now, if it were Sarah Palin claiming to have been a professor, and if she had the same background as Obama, the press would have torn her to shreds.

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

little barry soetoro on his way to occidental college as a foreign student........all the way from jakarta via honolulu

[LADY J]

"Bush, Kerry, and Gore released full medical and educational records. I think McCain did as well. Why didn’t the Kenyan?"

Maybe the same reason that Clinton never releaased his.

[bvw]

Hey I just noticed one I missed “Besuki School application”. What was that?

[ChiMark]

The title of professor ,associate professor, guest lecturer
are distinct titles.

A lawyer above all should be sensitive to language and it’s
usage.

Zer0 is a fraud.

[bgill]

Once a liar, always a liar.

[KarlInOhio]

Colleges are very picky about the term professor. Usually it is for a tenure track, full time employee of the college or university. Obama was just an instructor, but "professor" sounds better so professor he became.

[tflabo]

Stop with the facts. They are interrupting the feel-good euphoric highs associated with the enlightened One. All factual criticism of Obama is nothing more than racist propaganda! Now receive your ‘Change’ in peace and harmony!

[bvw]

U of C wrote “he served as a professor”. Not “served as a TA”, not “served as a lecturer”. Its like a man in a common law marriage case coming before the property dispute court and claiming “yeah, she served as my wife”.

To which the the judge would gavel down and intone “Married. Fifty-fifty. Next case!”.

[Steve_Seattle]

You can bet that if Obama had been the genius scholar he's portrayed as, his college records would have been released long ago. That narcissist would not hide a Cum Laude or Magna Cum Laude or Summa Cum Laude portfolio. I'm guessing he was a mediocre C/C+ student.

The more I see of him, the less he seems like a policy wonk or a fact man; he seems to be an idealogue, disinterested in details and even in facts. He seems intellectually lazy, endlessy repeating the slogans and catch-phrases and little bits of bigotry that make him seem "intellectual" to an uncritical media.

[bvw]

Colleges today are full of picayune idiots in every position of authority. How can they even be called colleges! Note that the UNIVERSITY (”college” is SO declassé) itself used the word “professor”.

[SparkyBass]

You called for Dr. Chicago? :)

[bvw]

Obama is a fraud. Someday he picture will be in the F section of the dictionary — an example of “fraud”, “failure”, “fruitloops”.

[Izzy Dunne]

You know he was 5th from the bottom at the USNA.

He was in the top 99% of his class!

[Izzy Dunne]

an example of “fraud”, “failure”, “fruitloops”.

Let's hope we can add "Fired" to that list.

[bvw]

Fer sho.

[Stand Watch Listen]

Besuki Elementary School in Menteng, Jakarta

January 1968 Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro. He was listed as an Indonesian citizen whose stepfather, listed on school documents as "L Soetoro Ma," worked for the topography department of the Indonesian Army.

After attending the Assisi Primary School, Obama was enrolled "also as a Muslim, according to documents" in the Besuki Primary School, a public school in Jakarta.

Obama spent third and fourth grades at the Besuki School, a public primary school along a leafy, narrow street in the city's diplomatic quarter.

in Obama's autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," he acknowledged studying the Quran and describes the public school as "a Muslim school."