Excellent question. I know it wasn't as a Law school lecturer (NOT Professor, just a lecturer)
In 1994, Barack Obama taught a course at the University of Chicago Law School entitled, "Current Issues in Racism and the Law." The reading list and syllabus for that class were made available by the New York Times in 2008, though there seems to have been little analysis of its content by Jodi Kantor, the Times’s Obama correspondent.
Obama routinely assigned works by Bell as required reading, including Bell's racialist interpretations of seminal civil rights laws and cases. No other scholar’s work appears as often in the syllabus as Bell’s does.
Obama relied particularly heavily upon Bell’s major work, Race, Racism, and American Law (1973).
Name a time and place where President Barack Obama would have learned about a Constitutional Republic and Capitalism.
Gracie - Proud Conservative
2012/05/04 22:33:38
As a small child he lived with his mother and grandparents, all were Socialists. His father was an African Communist and inspired his book "Dreams From My Father". His mentor, set up by his grandfather, was Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist. His mother left his step-father Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian Muslim, because she considered him a sell-out when he got a job with Union Oil Company and was moving up.
Barack stayed with his grandparents and went to a private school in Hawaii. He went to Occidental College and then went on a trip around the world. We don't know who paid for it but we do know that he wasn't a good student by his own admission. After his trip he changed from Barry to Barack and was admitted to Columbia. According to Columbia he graduated, without honors, and was then admitted to Harvard Law School. He admits seeking out the Marxist professors and friends while in school.
We know that he wasn't taught about how great America's Constitution or form of government was in Columbia or Harvard. His opinion of our Constitution is all on record.
He hasn't had a job in any environment that would teach him anything about Capitalism, he hasn't had a business and he knows more about Marx than Hayek or Adam Smith.
So, I'm curious about how people would expect him to believe in America as founded. I'm seriously asking his supporters if they think his lack of education and experience with our form of government and economic engine is at all important?
Barack stayed with his grandparents and went to a private school in Hawaii. He went to Occidental College and then went on a trip around the world. We don't know who paid for it but we do know that he wasn't a good student by his own admission. After his trip he changed from Barry to Barack and was admitted to Columbia. According to Columbia he graduated, without honors, and was then admitted to Harvard Law School. He admits seeking out the Marxist professors and friends while in school.
We know that he wasn't taught about how great America's Constitution or form of government was in Columbia or Harvard. His opinion of our Constitution is all on record.
He hasn't had a job in any environment that would teach him anything about Capitalism, he hasn't had a business and he knows more about Marx than Hayek or Adam Smith.
So, I'm curious about how people would expect him to believe in America as founded. I'm seriously asking his supporters if they think his lack of education and experience with our form of government and economic engine is at all important?
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Rodney 2012/05/05 04:28:33
Maybe the Transgendered Nanny "Evie" Ann Dunham (Not to be confused with Ann Romney) had caring for him read it to him? Looks like Hope and Change has left her a bit flat!
In 1994, Barack Obama taught a course at the University of Chicago Law School entitled, "Current Issues in Racism and the Law." The reading list and syllabus for that class were made available by the New York Times in 2008, though there seems to have been little analysis of its content by Jodi Kantor, the Times’s Obama correspondent.
Obama routinely assigned works by Bell as required reading, including Bell's racialist interpretations of seminal civil rights laws and cases. No other scholar’s work appears as often in the syllabus as Bell’s does.
Obama relied particularly heavily upon Bell’s major work, Race, Racism, and American Law (1973).
Your other two links have nothing to do with anything being addressed in this poll.
"Current Issues in Racism and the Law." "Voting Rights and Election Law" as a seminar. In reality, he taught 3 classes a year. At about 4 to 6 hours a week, he would have devoted about 270 hours a year to teaching (that's less then 7 weeks of normal full time work).
He also thought that the black man was not as advanced and therefore were not equal to the white man. He felt that government suited their citizens so if they didn't have democracy it was because they weren't ready for it yet.
He wrongly judged that people wouldn't tolerate a tyrannical government. He was highly influenced by German's like Hegel and Burke and Bagehot of the English Historical School.
So, go blow smoke somewhere else, you don't know squat!
The main problem with the European models and philosophies can be summed up in just a few short sentences found in our Declaration of Independence. These very critical sentences are the ones that Progressives, such as Wilson, would like to write out of our history.
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government become...
The main problem with the European models and philosophies can be summed up in just a few short sentences found in our Declaration of Independence. These very critical sentences are the ones that Progressives, such as Wilson, would like to write out of our history.
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
If our rights come from our Creator and not government their power is greatly diminished. That's the problem with Progressivism, they just don't believe that to be true. You cannot reconcile Progressivism and this basic tenet of our American system.