The book is "Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition" by James T. Kloppenberg .
Whether Harvard and other elite institutions still confer a net benefit on society is arguable. I support de-funding them by removing their tax-exempt status for contributions and endowment investments.
Well there's an hour of his life he's never gonna get back.
“The first is Obama’s sophisticated understanding of America’s history and its continuing democratic experiment.”
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Only from the unaccomplished ranks of the hugely overrated Ivy League can such uninformed, ignorant drivel, trickle.
There aren’t enough knee-pads in the world....
This sort of masturbatory gobbledygook passes for erudition at Harvard. The plain truth is the author likes Obama because they both seize upon any rationalization which will distort the Constitution to their purpose.
Obama is not brilliant, rather he is someone who has mastered the vocabulary of the left and he has been exalted to high positions ever since Occidental College because of his skin color and facility with leftist language.
Ah, Mr.Kloppenberg, He didn't write any of them. Do you think the books in a library reflect the talent of the clerk at the checkout desk?
Obama declared, “The greatness of our democracy is grounded in our ability to move beyond our differences, and to learn from our experience as we confront the many challenges ahead.”
Actually, Mr. Kloppenberg,that's a platitude you could hear at any high school commencement ceremony.
Come on, open your eyes.
Moi? I believe it, too. Masters Degrees in Education, Social Work, Organizational Design, Childhood Development, Human Resources, Drug Counseling, African-American Studies, Gay Studies, Minority Studies, Latino Studies, Sociology, Public Policy, Leadership Skills, etc.
I wish I had continued my studies at Yale. There was a course I wanted to take and then go on for a Masters in the field: "Francophone Lesbian Poets of West Africa." I could have had a high post in the Obama Administration. James T. Kloppenberg is to be congratulated for his work!
I will read it thoroughly, as I am trying to figure out how a light-in-the-loafers nincompoop from Mombasa rose to the highest position in the land.
Does it occur to you that the institutions you agree with will also suffer?
Aren't you also a bit hasty? These are centuries old institutions, which have become problematic (from your standpoint) only recently. It is not the insitutions, therefore, but some aspects of our culture that are problematic. Your suggestion amounts to throwing away an apple because it is unwashed.
Does it occur to you that the institutions you agree with will also suffer?
Aren't you also a bit hasty? These are centuries old institutions, which have become problematic (from your standpoint) only recently. It is not the insitutions, therefore, but some aspects of our culture that are problematic. Your suggestion amounts to throwing away an apple because it is unwashed.
If I could choose one American to be deleted from our history it would be John Dewey.