Posted on 05/12/2010 10:40:42 PM PDT by neverdem
Plagiarism is only a fault in some people. These folks got off on the MLK defense. Happens all the time for the “right” people. You or me? We would be crucified and ostracized from polite society.
Yet another thing to change after Revolution II. Get rid of pass/fail, number grades, "everyone gets a trophy" and replace with the old A-B-C-D-F and healthy competition. .
” “His stunning combination of analytical brilliance “
Stop right there......Obama has, at best, average intelligence.
I agree.
Hey now— analytical brilliance is “just really hard”! ;-)
The book is a 400 page hornbook with extensive citations to Supreme Court cases. I doubt someone else would allow him to take the credit for such a treatise if he didnt write it.
And the few interviews i have seen of him confirm his extensive knowledge of constitutional law. The good thing about the book is that it isn’t a leftist treatise as much as it is a legal analysis of case law.
“Hey now— analytical brilliance is “just really hard”! ;-) “
Twin teleprompters trump a high I.Q. every time ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWV6YTrWthE&feature=player_embedded#!
Elena Kagan in 2005: Barack Obama is my hero
http://en.tackfilm.se/?id=1273769563091RA58
pretty funny. surprised the communication office hadn’t put this out.
takes about a minute and half to load.
It’s the same way at some of the medical schools.
I also have heard that some schools dont give fail. It’s pass or incomplete. I don’t think anyone can deny that this is an affirmative-action related policy, something that becomes a necessity when you admit individuals whose credentials predict they are not up to the rigors of the institution.
Oh, great...just what I’d want....a surgeon who got a “Pass” in all his/her classes in med school (that really were C- or D’s)....how comforting...
Haha, I am from there! I groaned audibly when ESPN showed him filling out his bracket and he misspelled it. And he won my county too. So pathetic. I’ll admit I was brainwashed by him and just pulled the lever kind of instinctively, knowing it wouldn’t make a difference in NY. Now I’m revolted that I did. The Republicans were right when they said that he was anti-Israel and really detested white people and sought to divide America. They were right about all of it. :(
>Now I’m revolted that I did.
Don’t feel too bad for too long. Regret, make amends, and move on.
Dig down for what you missed, so you don’t make the same mistake. For instance, I don’t believe any more that a “REpublican” will keep taxes low, or seal the border.
Have a great day.
Thank you. I was always somewhat libertarian/conservative in my outlook. I did vote Republican for my new congresscritter in that same election and he fortunately beat out his Democratic opponent to keep the seat in Republican hands.
You have a great day as well.
"Through its own internal feuding, then, the CM [Conservative Movement] exhausted itself forever and further reduced constitutionalism in the US to the position of marginality and insignificance from which it has never recovered. The story is a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after conservatism's decline, still wish to change America. Conservatives have often succumbed to the devastating bane of sectarianism; it is easier, after all, to fight one’s fellows than it is to battle an entrenched and powerful foe. Yet if the history of the US shows anything, it is that American conservatives cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope."
Barack Obama of Harvard Law School—and Beyond
November 5, 2008
1 Comment During his student years at Harvard Law School, Barack Obama, J.D. ’91, now president-elect of the United States, also came to the attention of the wider University community.
In 1990, he was elected president of the Harvard Law Review (as reported here from the Harvard Magazine account), the first African American to attain that position in the journal’s then 103-year-old history. The news made national headlines, as the Harvard Crimson reported in a detailed account.
In 1991, Obama agreed to run for the Board of Overseers as one of three petition candidates put forward by the group Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni/ae Against Apartheid, which was seeking to persuade the University to divest its holdings in firms doing business in South Africa. None of the three was elected. (Note the members of the complete slates, including such prominent figures as Steven Ballmer ’77, now CEO of Microsoft.)
Harvard Magazine covered his campaign for U.S. Senate from Illinois in mid 2004, when he ran against another Harvard Law School alumnus.
In more recent campus comments, the November 4 issue of the Crimson reported the Morning Prayers remarks of Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe, a constitutional law scholar, bearing on the qualities of his former student. And one of the panels convened for Harvard Law School’s capital-campaign celebration featured a discussion of potential changes in the Supreme Court’s makeup, and the contentious issues it might face, during an Obama administration. And the law school published this write-up and collection of links concerning its newly famous alumnus.
Finally, with the votes tallied, it’s time to revise the trivia manuals. Speaking at the Law School campaign celebration on October 23, Harvard President Drew Faust offered this bit of historical humor: “[I]t’s quite possible that 12 days from now, Rutherford B. Hayes may no longer be the only right answer to the trivia question, ‘What graduate of Harvard Law School was elected president of the United States?’” Occupying a whole new category of trivia, of course, is Michelle (Robinson) Obama, J.D. ’88.
http://harvardmagazine.com/alumni-in-the-news/barack-obama-of-harvard-law-school
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