“I think there is too much of the University of Chicago in him."
I'm glad I transferred!
BS. You know too little about the University of Chicago. You may be thinking of Ayers's school, The University of Illinois at Chicago. People get them confused. At any rate, there was plainly too much of
Occidental College in Obama.
People, don't you ever read? He was parked at the U of Chicago as an adjunct instructor at the request of outside powers-that-be while having his way prepared for state office. At the U of Chicago he participated in
none of campus life, produced no scholarship, refused to hang out with or associate with the law school faculty. There he was as aloof and self-absorbed as he always has been.
Except for the student groups such as the Spartacus League and Lyndon LaRouche supporters, the U of Chicago is relatively apolitical. The cost of tuition and room and board keeps a lot of the riff-raff out. The rigor of the Core, especially back then, keeps out most of the rest (U of Chicago, compared to Yale, Harvard, and Princeton, has a high dropout and transfer rate because it's a really tough school--the undergrad courses are taught by the professors themselves, not graduate students, who may teach once or twice in a quarter). But even wealthy people are bound to have some goof balls as kids who get sent there--as I saw in the pot smoking anthro students who were in a science class for non-science majors I helped with or some whiners who tried to argue why they shouldn't have had to complete the assignment as given--I still have an email from one student somewhere that is hilarious. If he had just spent as much effort doing the work, he would have been okay.