[elisheba]

I know things like this happen. I am a retired instructor from a university business school. Perhaps 20 years ago, we had a temporary position open for a bus. law instructor. A black Harvard JD (yes, similar situation to Obama's) applied for both our position and another position within the university administration.

I saw his resume. He had a two-year gap (supposedly a resume red flag) in there which no one said a word about. The admin refused to hire him but ordered the business college to, and also to make the position tenure track, which we did.

He turned out to be a very disorganized instructor (assigning a given chapter and then at the next class, launching into an entirely different chapter without explanation, for example) and also got arrested during the semester and ended up being convicted of insurance fraud and imprisoned. Another bus law prof took on the entire unstaffed class load, doubling his own class load for the remainder of the semester.

The management dept head told me later that they actually checked to see if his Harvard law degree was fraudulent, and they found out it was real! Just one anecdotal example, and not to be generalized from. We also had some very good black instructors in the business college, but I hadn't thought of the event for years, and Obama's law instructor career and the comments on his performance in this article brought it to mind.

[Lurking Libertarian]

The highest tenured faculty member at Chicago Law spoke out on Barack Obama saying, “Professors hated him because he was lazy, unqualified, never attended any of the faculty meetings.”

Is this "highest tenured faculty member" identified by name anywhere, or is this an anonymous rumor?

[penelopesire]

WOW Ping!

I wonder why no-one spoke up before now?

[SE Mom]

See this?

[denydenydeny]

A few weeks later the law school got a phone call from the Board of Trustees telling them to find him an office, put him on the payroll, and give him a class to teach.

I get the impression that Obama's career has been full of such "calls" from mysterious "authorities" fast-tracking him into each new career point.

I'm not a "birther," but there is a great deal we need to know about the people who have fast-tracked him for no apparent reason everywhere he's gone.

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