Posted on 04/11/2010 3:19:32 AM PDT by RobinMasters
Are attorneys Barack and Michelle Obama currently licensed to practice law?
Was Barack Obama ever a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago?
In recent days, these questions have once again gone viral on the Internet.
WND has traced the current controversy to Doug Ross and a March 1 posting on his DirectorBlue.blogspot.com asserting the Obamas are no longer lawyers registered to practice law in Illinois and that claims President Obama was a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago are "a sham."
This current round of the controversy harkens back to the 2008 presidential campaign when Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton made nearly the same charges in a March 25, 2008, "Hillary for President" press release entitled "Just Embellished Words: Senator Obama's Record of Exaggerations & Misstatements."
After stating Barack Obama was not a law professor at the University of Chicago, the Clinton press release insisted: "He (Barack Obama) is a senior lecturer (now on leave) at the school. In academia, there's a vast difference between the two titles. Details matter. Professors have tenure while lecturers do not."
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As I’ve said before:
Not a footprint. No family history to either defend or betray, no family name to protect or destroy. To be perfectly honest, I’d rather have Michelle Obama as president, if I was forced to choose one or the other.
He’s very dangerous. He’s got nothing to lose.
I believe there is an organization called the RNC/GOP. I suppose if they weren’t out spending money at gay S and M bars, jet flights and calling the base racists, they might of done some do diligence on Obama.
But, they are lazy, cowardly, incompetent, or it’s just all a WWF, pro wrestling type thing and doesn’t matter for the elite anyways.
I would argue about part of this. Usually...a new guy is brought in, and there is a review process by a board with the university...usually three to four years later....to state if the guy gets tenure. If they think he’s done a good bit of work....published some reviews and papers...and gotten positive comments by the senior professors...then it’s an automatic “yes”.
Some of you may remember the gal down in Huntsville, who got riled up and upset when tenure wasn’t going to be offered to her, and she shot the board members.
In this case, I seriously doubt that he ever got the tenure offer. Note, you’d have to publish some reviews and documents....which we know that he’s virtually incapable of writing anything (you don’t notice such reviews out there...do you?).
So he could continue on as a regular professor....but never have tenure, thus missing retirement with the big bucks. My guess was that this was a stopping station...to fill a square to claim he was a “professor”, and no more. Everyone was doing their piece to get him to the next level (even the Nobel Peace Prize committee).
I would think a University would publish a listing of staff in some paper form each year that would list the titles of each staff member.
He would have to be the dumbest professor of all time.
57 states.
corpseman.
savings of 3000% percent.
The leftist media can liken this to the ‘swiftboating’ of Kerry. Here’s the sheepskinning of 0bama, who could not pull the wool over anyone’s eyes without their devoted assistance.
Show us the documents, Professor!
These people have perpetrated a fradu against the people of the United States and it appear that fraud was planned from start to finish.
Someone was behind it.
Some enemy of this country.
It started long before Obama was capable of planning such things.
I am not aware of any degree granted by any of the universities the One attended. Is there any that claims he graduated?
Only Assistant Professors on tenure-track are eligible to get tenure, which is awarded along with a promotion to Associate Professor. The promotion, if it occurs, takes place in their 7th year, after year-long review and a positive recommendation from the committee on tenure. If they are not awarded tenure, their initial 5-year contract automatically runs out and they must move on to another job.
One non-tenure category is Adjunct Professor. They are not paid at all unless they actually teach a course, which is fairly rare. They have a successful outside profession want to enhance their resume by association with the university.
Obama’s position was in a third category. Instructors and lecturers are not on a tenure-track. For them there is never a tenure review. They are on year-to-year contracts and must be rehired starting from zero every year. They are paid not much more than graduate student teaching assistants. Instructors and lecturers generally have a professional level degree, but few or no publications. They get paid by the course. There are lots of reasons for people to take such an iffy position. One is that they have a profession outside the university from which they are not quite making a living. Another is they want to enhance their resume for some future position outside the university.
Gee... I wonder if the Obama Enablers (the ones who ridicule the Birthers) will now go after those who claim Obama has fraudulent education credentials.
Obama is a fraud...and it is unfortunate that he will be covered for by weak-kneed spineless GOPers....
You are partially correct...
However, many colleges and universities will hand out tenure and special honors to anyone they want.....even bypassing boards and accreditation committies......this is how a lot of politicians, without the required education....end up with cushy professorships after they leave office
I saw one of the good professors exams on the internet. He's got to be a professor.
Obama is perfectly capable of writing.
He can write whatever the teleprompter tells him.
Who cares if they can practice law anymore. They will never practice law again anyway. In fact, I don’t think they would be allowed to once a President. Could you imagine having barack as your lawyer. That would not be allowed in any court room. The President would be unfair to the other guy for sure in the face of the jury.
** ...this is how a lot of politicians, without the required education....end up with cushy professorships after they leave office.**
Can’t find original source..but I heard on one of the talk shows, that Obama was merely a Part time Lecturer.. which is not a tenure track position.
Locally, Cornell University has an Adjunct Professor *.*.*.* by the name of ... JOHN CLEESE... Every other semester he shows up does a Comedy Routine (Lecture), and “they pay me obscene amounts of money.”
Excellent speculation, but the American people so much want you to be wrong!
Are you talking about Jim Wright at Texas Christian University?
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