Obama flunked lunch at Harvard! He can't even talk to a group of third graders without a teleprompter!!
Posted on 05/13/2010 6:28:22 PM PDT by Sioux-san
In 1989, Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe hired first-year Harvard law student Barack Obama as his research assistant. After Obama was elected president, Tribe would gush, “His stunning combination of analytical brilliance and personal charisma, openness and maturity, vision and pragmatism, was unmistakable from my very first encounter.”
Obama had one other prominent mentor among the Harvard faculty, Professor Charles Ogletree, an African American. In the run up to the election, Ogletree would enthuse, "I'm so excited about this candidacy that I just can't tell you. I'm just overfull with joy.”
In 2004, Tribe and Ogletree both made the news in ways they might wish they had not. In 2010, that news has come back to haunt their Law School dean at that time, Elena Kagan, and, if there is any justice in the world, it should eventually suck in Obama himself.
In September 2004, as Obama was cruising to victory in the U.S. Senate race, Tribe was publicly apologizing for plagiarizing—though, of course, he would not use that term-- Henry J. Abraham’s 1974 book, Justices and Presidents, to write his own 1985 book, God Save This Honorable Court.
Tribe’s transgression had come to light only after he had publicly defended his colleague Ogletree, who just three weeks earlier had publicly apologized for the unauthorized heist of verbiage from Yale scholar Jack Balkin’s book, What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said, and the stashing of it, nearly word-for-word, in his own book, All Deliberate Speed.
Appalled by Tribe’s hypocrisy, an anonymous tipster alerted conservative scholar Joseph Bottum, who penned a damning 5,000 word article for The Weekly Standard, which revealed the extent of Tribe’s theft and resulted in Tribe’s half-hearted mea culpa.
(Excerpt) Read more at AmericanThinker.com ...
If I were to take Tribe’s and this other guy’s books, meld them together, and publish them as my own, that wouldn’t be plaigerism, right?
Cesspool overflow!
Tribe has got to be in on the Big Joke against the American people. Mature? (Giving us the finger in so many photo ops) Open? (Birth Certificate, college transcripts, etc) Vision? (One Leap Backward) Charisma???? Haven’t seen any of that since Barry took office.
Seems to me that every so called ‘historian’ on the left has been caught plagiarizing.
Seems to me that every so called ‘scholar’ on the left has been caught plagiarizing.
No problem, the left still loves them all.
Obama flunked lunch at Harvard! He can't even talk to a group of third graders without a teleprompter!!
Tribe is a liberal media made man.
It’s interesting that the article mentions “Yale scholar Jack Balkin.” I had Balkin as a 2-L at UT Law in 1989. He was weird and interesting. I wouldn’t use the word scholar, however.
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In the ‘60s, Harvard and GM were top brands.
Presently, GM and Harvard have the same cachet- that is, the same as each other...but not the same as when they actually produced things people wanted.
Wow. This strikes me as a blockbuster. I must have missed Joseph Bottum’s earlier essay on it.
Cashill is to be commended for digging it up now. And, of course, it fits right in with his work on Obama and his secret ghost-writer.
Thanks for posting. HOORAY Jack Cashill!
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Yes it would but it would also assure a Worst Seller.
Besides that, I think combining Tribe's stuff and the other stuff would probably be a pretty sick enterprise and I wouldn't feel well later.
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