Posted on 08/23/2011 2:29:38 PM PDT by opentalk
One reason the supporters of Obamacare were initially overconfident about its supposed invulnerability to legal challenges was their belief that the man who signed it into law was an expert on the Constitution.
This misplaced faith was based on statements Obama himself made during his first presidential campaign. At a 2007 fundraiser, for example, he told his admirers, "I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution."
This claim turned out, of course, to be one of Obama's trademark shadings of the truth. He was never a "professor" as genuine academics use the term. He was, however, a part-time faculty member at the University of Chicago, where he occasionally subjected hapless students to pontifications on the nation's founding document.
..."If the Supreme Court follows existing precedent, existing law, it should be upheld without a problem." He then added, "There's nothing wrong with saying to people who can afford to get health insurance, you need to buy health insurance just like car insurance."
The latter assertion, that the individual mandate is analogous to laws requiring people to buy auto insurance, betrays a level of ignorance concerning the difference between state prerogatives and those of Congress that wouldn't be tolerated in a high school government class. It's a little unnerving coming from the President of the United States.
The scholar-in-chief apparently doesn't remember that the reach of the federal government is limited to a specific set of enumerated powers and that any power not found on that short list is reserved to the states.
This is why no one has filed a constitutional challenge to the insurance mandate that was imposed on the long-suffering citizenry of Massachusetts in 2006. ..it was enacted at the state level and thus does no violence to the Constitution.
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He is a “professor”. In the early part of the 20th century, a professor was slang for the guy who played the piano in the whore house. In fact, it is probably as fitting a job description for the fraud in chief as any he could think of for his professional experience.
Where??? he was a unprepared and a very unliked lecturer,who got that job through a Phone call.
“Law Professor”? It’s my understanding he only gave lecturers.
Obama is an idiot.
Yeah, and I'm a marine biologist -- during the day; at night I design space ships for inter-galaxy travel.
The suspended law issue must have done some serious damage yet undisclosed.
“Showing up for a no show job does leave you a bit unmotivated and unprepared. Much like Michelle’s gig on the board for Treehouse Foods and several Hospitals. It’s just a way to pay off politicians and unions, to get them to leave you alone. How do you think Vernon Jordan got so rich? I’m really quite surprised at the Obamas for running for national office. If they had just stayed in the state legislature with their suspended law licenses they would have made much more money and been less subject to scrutiny.
The suspended law issue must have done some serious damage yet undisclosed.”
Excellent point and Post.
This claim turned out, of course, to be one of Obama's trademark shadings of the truth.He was never a "professor" as genuine academics use the term. He was, however, a part-time faculty member at the University of Chicago, where he occasionally subjected hapless students to pontifications on the nation's founding document.
Other threads have covered how Obama and Michele no longer have licenses to practice law. He should not pretend he does.
“I was a constitutional law professor”
Obama was never in a “tenure-track” position at the University of Chicago, and as a result, would not have an official title involving the word “professor” (as in Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or (full) Professor) at any point in his academic career.
He might have been addressed as “professor” by his students, and he might have thought of himself as a professor, but he was in no way in the same league as the folks who actually earned that title. For one thing, he had absolutely no record of accomplishment in terms of anything remotely related to scholarly studies or research.
As is the case as regards the rest of his career, he was a legend in his own mind, and that’s about it.
Pres. Barack Obama – Editor of the Harvard Law Review – Has No Law License???
Why would Obama let his law license lapse?
Michelle Obama attorney license on court ordered inactive status
“Other threads have covered how Obama and Michele no longer have licenses to practice law.”
No one in the media has ever asked him about the status of his and her law licenses. Why do they no longer have those licenses? What were the circumstances under which they were relinquished?
He might be addressed as “president”, and he might think of himself as a president, but he is in no way in the same league as the folks who actually earned that title.
He was a small 'p' professor - when the term 'professor' is used in its most generic sense to mean anybody on the faculty who teaches. The University of Chicago has now gone out of its way to say he was a professor, using the lower case 'p.'
His highest official title was Senior Lecturer. He was never an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or full Professor.
UofC now point of stating that they offered him a tenure track Professorship several times but he turned it down to stay a Senior Lecturer (small 'p' professor).
Obama was a professor in much the same way as a graduate assistant who teaches classes at a university is a professor.
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lying dweeb pos potus
“I was a constitutional law professor”
Obama was never in a “tenure-track” position at the University of Chicago, and as a result, would not have an official title involving the word “professor” (as in Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or (full) Professor) at any point in his academic career.
He might have been addressed as “professor” by his students, and he might have thought of himself as a professor, but he was in no way in the same league as the folks who actually earned that title. For one thing, he had absolutely no record of accomplishment in terms of anything remotely related to scholarly studies or research.
As is the case as regards the rest of his career, he was a legend in his own mind, and that’s about it.”
He is a puffed up windbag,Typical of Affirmative Action products.
It is only fitting that, in spite of some of the comments in this post, proper respect be given to such as illustrious member of the Debt-o-crat Political Party.
While at the Chicago Campus Professor You Lie founded the Chicago School of Bureaucratic Socialism.
Currently on academic leave, Professor You Lie has done more to destroy wealth, jobs and hope in the United States of America than all previous occupants of The White House combined.
Each award he has received has been strictly without merit, the most significant so far was his Nobel Peace prize.
The Debt-o-cratic Political Party should be justifiably proud of Professor You Lie, and of Hilly, his Secretary of Statements who together tirelessly spread Debt-o-cracy throughout the world.
I know for a fact that BOTH Greece and California are grateful.
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