Posted on 08/23/2009 6:14:08 PM PDT by Libloather
Why are these Obama documents off-limits to Americans?
1. Certified copy of original birth certificate
2. Columbia University transcripts
3. Columbia thesis paper
4. Campaign donor analysis requested by 7 major watchdog groups
5. Harvard University transcripts
6. Illinois State Senate records
7. Illinois State Senate schedule
8. Law practice client list and billing records/summary
9. Locations and names of all half-siblings and step-mothers
10. Medical records (only the one page summary released so far)
11. Occidental College Transcripts
12. Parents marriage Certificate
13. Record of baptism
14. Selective Service registration records
15. Schedules for trips outside of the United States before 2007
16. Scholarly articles
17. List of all campaign workers that are lobbyists
18. Punahou grade school records
lol bump
I remember a science fiction short story where a time traveler said he could make a guy disappear. Then he made a “man” in the bar vanish. Everyone freaked.
The time traveler then said he created the figment person in all their minds and then ended the image, thus no one was actually killed. Everyone then mobbed the “time traveler” and killed him.
The later analysis showed no marriage certificate for his common law wife, no tax records, no formal job, never finished high school, no photos, no proof that the person actually existed. Even their memories ranged from months to years.
But the end decision was that even if the person of the future created the false memory of this individual, he deserved to die for messing with people in general.
Obama reminds me of this story - no proof of much of anything, defined as whatever the individual wanted to see. Still waiting to see if a mob tears him apart or if he just fades away.
Good Heavens! Are you suggesting the "permanent record" with which I was so often threatened actually exists?!
Where is the National Enquirer when they are needed. They seem to be able to ferret out this kind of stuff.
You were the one that flunked out? Who knew?
How ‘bout, we set up a pool, offer a bounty, put the funds into escrow for ANY authentic docs from this list?
Scooter Libby missed one!
Barack Obama wrote his senior thesis at Columbia University on Soviet nuclear disarmament. Inquiring people have sought a copy of this thesis to no avail. Columbia says it cannot be found; Barack Obama says he lost it.
How likely is that a person so impressed with himself that he writes an autobiography just a few years later would "lose" his senior thesis? After all, a Presidential Library must be filled. And as Jim Geraghty at National Review and others have noted there are a lot of blank spots -- missing records and the like -- having to do with Barack Obama.
But one question remains. If Barack Obama devoted a year researching and writing about Soviet nuclear disarmament, how could he fail to get the facts down about the Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting in Vienna?
Maybe there are good reasons he wants to bury this thesis. Did he get it wrong there,too? Did he just coast at Columbia on his interesting background and personal charm?
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/07/where_in_the_world_is_obamas_m.html
a “guest” lecturer, I believe.
The internet may say otherwise. (Blame Algore.)
March 28, 2008
Q: Was Barack Obama really a constitutional law professor?
When I was in law school, I addressed all of my course instructors as "professors," regardless of their rank or formal position in the school academic hierarchy (tenured professor, assistant professor, adjunct professor, lecturer, etc.). Was Obama exaggerating or factually wrong in referring to himself as a "constitutional law professor" at the University of Chicago Law School even though his official title was lecturer?
A: His formal title was "senior lecturer," but the University of Chicago Law School says he "served as a professor" and was "regarded as" a professor.
Sen. Obama, who has taught courses in constitutional law at the University of Chicago, has regularly referred to himself as "a constitutional law professor," most famously at a March 30, 2007, fundraiser when he said, "I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution." A spokesman for the Republican National Committee immediately took exception to Obamas remarks, pointing out that Obamas title at the University of Chicago was "senior lecturer" and not "professor."
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/was_barack_obama_really_a_constitutional_law.html
pompous ass ping!
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/06/us/first-black-elected-to-head-harvard-s-law-review.html
First Black Elected to Head Harvard’s Law Review
By FOX BUTTERFIELD, Special to The New York Times
Published: Tuesday, February 6, 1990
The Harvard Law Review, generally considered the most prestigious in the country, elected the first black president in its 104-year history today. The job is considered the highest student position at Harvard Law School.
The new president of the Review is Barack Obama, a 28-year-old graduate of Columbia University who spent four years heading a community development program for poor blacks on Chicago’s South Side before enrolling in law school. His late father, Barack Obama, was a finance minister in Kenya and his mother, Ann Dunham, is an American anthropologist now doing fieldwork in Indonesia. Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii.
‘’The fact that I’ve been elected shows a lot of progress,’’ Mr. Obama said today in an interview. ‘’It’s encouraging.
‘’But it’s important that stories like mine aren’t used to say that everything is O.K. for blacks. You have to remember that for every one of me, there are hundreds or thousands of black students with at least equal talent who don’t get a chance,’’ he said, alluding to poverty or growing up in a drug environment.
What a Law Review Does
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, and at the same time offering judges and scholars a forum for new legal arguments. The Harvard Law Review is generally considered the most widely cited of the student law reviews.
On his goals in his new post, Mr. Obama said: ‘’I personally am interested in pushing a strong minority perspective. I’m fairly opinionated about this. But as president of the law review, I have a limited role as only first among equals.’’
Therefore, Mr. Obama said, he would concentrate on making the review a ‘’forum for debate,’’ bringing in new writers and pushing for livelier, more accessible writing.
A President’s Future
The president of the law review usually goes on to serve as a clerk for a judge on the Federal Court of Appeals for a year, and then as a clerk for an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Mr. Obama said he planned to spend two or three years in private law practice and then return to Chicago to re-enter community work, either in politics or in local organizing.
Professors and students at the law school reacted cautiously to Mr. Obama’s selection. ‘’For better or for worse, people will view it as historically significant,’’ said Prof. Randall Kennedy, who teaches contracts and race relations law. ‘’But I hope it won’t overwhelm this individual student’s achievement.’’
Change in Selection System
Mr. Obama was elected after a meeting of the review’s 80 editors that convened Sunday and lasted until early this morning, a participant said.
Until the 1970’s the editors were picked on the basis of grades, and the president of the Law Review was the student with the highest academic rank. Among these were Elliot L. Richardson, the former Attorney General, and Irwin Griswold, a dean of the Harvard Law School and Solicitor General under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon.
That system came under attack in the 1970’s and was replaced by a program in which about half the editors are chosen for their grades and the other half are chosen by fellow students after a special writing competition. The new system, disputed when it began, was meant to help insure that minority students became editors of The Law Review.
Harvard, like a number of other top law schools, no longer ranks its law students for any purpose including a guide to recruiters....
there’s more of this carp.......
; )
Con-man? I thought he was a black man? /s
SO... why was BO the chosen one for the Harvard Law Review. Either his grades (which he wont let anyone see) or a paper he wrote that so impressed his fellow students, they elected him (which he also wont let anyone see). It would be interesting to know which, no?
Obama; I personally am interested in pushing a strong minority perspective. Im fairly opinionated about this.'
No surprise there, huh!
Until the 1970s the editors were picked on the basis of grades, -later - half were chosen by fellow students after a special writing competition.
Interesting, because we've heard his grades weren't high. Strangely, none of those 'students' who 'chose' him have ever spoken out about his college years, nor have we seen any of his written work.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
[nor have we seen any of his written work.]
Lol, that was a “dah!” remark due to the topic of the thread.
Those of us who actually went through the “publish or perish” gauntlet to earn the academic title of Professor (without diminishing adjectives like “Assistant”, “Associate”, or “Adjunct”) resent the sloppy usage that styles a mere Senior Lecturer—a position lower than an Assistant Professor in the usual American usage, though U. Chicago may affect the British style in which it is the equivalent of Assistant Professor—as a professor.
If Obama deserves to be called a professor, where are his publications? (No, self-glorifying autobiographies don’t count, actual scholarly publications in refereed journals relevant to his academic field.)
I know, that was question 16 in the the original post. Personally I suspect there aren’t any, and he was never a professor, just a lecturer.
As president of the Harvard Law Review and a law professor in Chicago, Senator Barack Obama refined his legal thinking, but left a scant paper trail. His name doesn't appear on any legal scholarship.
But an unsigned and previously unattributed 1990 article unearthed by Politico offers a glimpse at Obama's views on abortion policy and the law during his student days, and provides a rare addition to his body of work.
**SNIP**
Law students elected to the prestigious Harvard Law Review spend two years working there. In their first year, most write the brief, anonymous "case comments" like Obama's, which bears the unwieldy heading: TORT LAW - PRENATAL INJURIES - SUPREME COURT OF ILLINOIS REFUSES TO RECOGNIZE CAUSE OF ACTION BROUGHT BY FETUS AGAINST ITS MOTHER FOR UNINTENTIONAL INFLICTION OF PRENATAL INJURIES.
Obama's tenure at the Review has been chronicled at length in the Politico, the New York Times, and elsewhere.
But Obama has never mentioned his law review piece, a demurral that's part of his campaign's broader pattern of rarely volunteering information or documents about the candidate, even when relatively innocuous. When Politico reporters working on a story about Obama's law review presidency earlier this year asked if he had written for the review, a spokesman responded accurately - but narrowly - that "as the president of the Law Review, Obama didn't write articles, he edited and reviewed them."
The case comment was published a month before he became president.
The notion that Obama hadn't written at all for the Review prompted skepticism.
"They probably don't want [to] have you [reporters] going back" to examine the Review, University of Southern California law professor (and Michael Dukakis campaign manager) Susan Estrich said at the time.
**SNIP**
Obama approached "what remains a controversial issue in a temperate way," said Altman, who was on the Harvard Law Review a few years before Obama. He noted that Obama's terms were carefully hedged - "may" and "many people think" in place of bold declarations.
**SNIP**
On one hand, he warned that allowing fetuses to sue their mothers could actually lead to more abortions.
**SNIP**
Obama's article, which begins on page 823 of Volume 103 of the Harvard Law Review, is available in libraries and subscription-only legal databases.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080822/pl_politico/12705
NO IDEA on which basis he was chosen...because we have been told that he never wrote ONE thing for the LawReview and it has been inferred that his marks were pretty nasty -
this is pretty funny, tho -
.......”Mr. Obama succeeds Peter Yu, a first-generation Chinese-American, as president of The Law Review. After graduation, Mr. Yu plans to serve as a clerk for Chief Judge Patricia Wald on the of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Mr. Yu said Mr. Obama’s election ‘’was a choice on the merits, but others may read something into it.’’”
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