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Throughout, Obama remained very close to Butts, as he had been since law school. According to David Remnick, author of The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, the future president “engaged in [the affirmative action debate] with some passion at the [Harvard] Law Review” (Remnick 215). While at Harvard, Butts wrote a critique of an anti-affirmative action book, The Content of Our Character, by black conservative Shelby Steele, which ran in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review in 1991. Obama, according to Remnick, helped Butts with the piece, even though she was the general editor of the review.

The two shared a circle of friends, as Politico noted in 2008, and a vision for how the world worked. As she later told the Chicago Tribune on January 17, 2008, Butts and Obama would spend time together “just sitting around and talking about how we were going to change the world...How do you take this thing we’re learning in law school and make a difference on the issues we care about?”

Despite the supposed permanence of racism, Butts soon found a welcome home for her views in the Democratic Party and in liberal Washington think tanks.....

During that New Black Panther Party scandal, Butts was also front and center in White House meeting with key Department of Justice officials, according to The Washington Times.......

Butts also worked with the Holder DOJ to stop anti-fraud voter I.D. laws, which she had long opposed at the Center for American Progress, providing intellectual heft behind the controversial policy that still remains a centerpiece of the Obama administration's agenda, legally and politically..........

Crucially, at the White House, Butts was trusted to put Obama’s stamp on the judiciary. According to The Washington Post, she “spent lots of time” filling 69 vacant judicial spots...........

Butts was not the only practioner or supporter of Critical Race Theory in the Obama administration. There was also Preeta Bansal, who served as Obama’s General Counsel at Office of Management and Budget and Senior Policy Advisor until 2011. Bansal is also a leader at the American Constitution Society (ACS), a group that, contrary to its name, believes in a “living Constitution” and supports radical critiques of the document. Bansal even co-authored a 1988 Yale Law Review article with none other than Bell himself; the article that suggests white racism was at the heart of the Reagan Revolution.

1 posted on 03/15/2012 7:22:39 AM PDT by mojitojoe
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Obama has admitted more than once that he hung out with radicals, socialists Marxists and other revolutionary types in his college days. So why is anyone surprised? His mother was a Marxist as were his maternal grandparents and supposedly the Kenyan sperm donor that was his father. He has known nothing else from cradle to today. Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayres, literally everyone that he has associated with since he was potty trained was a radical and Anti-American.


2 posted on 03/15/2012 7:32:51 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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What we’re gonna do right here is go back, way back, back into time.
When the only people that existed were troglodytes...cave men...
cave women...Neanderthal...troglodytes. Let’s take the average
cave man at home, listening to his stereo. Sometimes he’d get up,
try to do his thing. He’d begin to move, something like this:
“Dance...dance”. When he got tired of dancing alone, he’d look
in the mirror: “Gotta find a woman gotta find a woman gotta find a
woman gotta find a woman”. He’d go down to the lake where all the
woman would be swimming or washing clothes or something. He’d look
around and just reach in and grab one. “Come here...come here”.
He’d grab her by the hair. You can’t do that today, fellas, cause
it might come off. You’d have a piece of hair in your hand and she’d
be swimming away from you (ha-ha). This one woman just lay there,
wet and frightened. He said: “Move...move”. She got up. She was a
big woman. BIG woman.

Her name was Bertha. Bertha Butt. She was one
of the Butt sisters.

He didn’t care. He looked up at her and said:
“Sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me
sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me!”. She looked down on him.
She was ready to crush him, but she began to like him. She said:
“I’ll sock it to ya, Daddy”. He said: “Wha?”. She said:
“I’ll sock it to ya, Daddy”. You know what he said? He started it way
back then. I wouldn’t lie to you. When she said
“I’ll sock it to ya, Daddy” he said “Right on! Right on! Hotpants!
Hotpants! Ugh...ugh...ugh”


3 posted on 03/15/2012 7:41:48 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Spoiler Alert! The secret to Terra Nova: THEY ARE ALL DEAD!!!)
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I don’t know anything about Cassandra Butts however the name reminds me of one of my favorite subscriber names from my customer service days: Ophelia Knox.


6 posted on 03/15/2012 7:49:14 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Obama: The Dr. Kevorkian of the American economy.)
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To: mojitojoe

Cassandra Q. Butts

10 posted on 03/15/2012 8:36:03 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Conservative patriots, Rise up!)
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There is a positive result of Obama’s winning the presidency. He has clearly disclosed the rot that has set in in this nation.
Only village idiots think communism is a viable form of government. Adherents of that philosophy should be met with finger pointing, snickers and laughter at every appearance.


12 posted on 03/15/2012 9:03:52 AM PDT by W. W. SMITH (Obama is Romney lite)
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The list, Ping

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13 posted on 03/15/2012 10:32:40 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


14 posted on 03/15/2012 10:32:59 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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The Vetting: Cassandra Butts - Bell Devotee, Obama Advisor, Judicial Scout

A lot of important information in the article and # 1.

Good find, mojitojoe.

16 posted on 03/15/2012 12:39:06 PM PDT by LucyT
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At Harvard Law School from 1988-1991, Butts was one of the student advocates of Professor Derrick Bell’s strike for “faculty diversity.” She was also a fast friend of Obama’s, whose career she has helped to promote from the halls of the Harvard Law Review to the White House.

http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/tocn-mla000572-students-occupy-dean-s-office-at-harvard-law-school

VIDEO at link (MO, bottom right, at .08 mark???)

Students occupy Dean’s office at Harvard Law School

1:00:17: Visual: Shots of Harvard Law students studying their textbooks as they occupy the Dean’s office in the administration building of Harvard Law School. Most of the students are African American. Marcus Jones reports that 50 Harvard Law School students marched into the administration building in the afternoon; that most of the students are African American; that many of the students wore black as a show of solidarity.

Date Covered

05/10/1988

http://gratewire.com/topic/students-occupy-deans-office-at-harvard-law-school

In May 1988, Harvard Law students, borrowing from Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals,
and foreshadowing the Occupy movement of 2011, occupied the Harvard Law
School’s dean’s office. The students were supporting Professor Derrick
Bell’s demand that the law school hire professors on the basis of race.

One of the students “dressed in black” and occupying the dean’s
office appears to be Michelle Obama (Harvard Law ’88). Here is a link
to the grainy video. (lower right at about ten seconds in, wearing white Keds):


18 posted on 03/15/2012 1:57:36 PM PDT by maggief
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Butts began her time in Washington as legislative counsel to Sen. Harris Wofford of Pennsylvania, and assistant counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. She went on to serve as both deputy director and general counsel of the Democratic Policy Committee under then-House Minority Leader Gephardt, a position she described to The Washingtonian in September 2001 as being “Gephardt’s eyes and ears.” As Gephardt’s expert on information technology and judiciary issues, she became the Democratic Caucus’s counsel during the Clinton impeachment hearings. She also advised Gephardt in his 2004 bid for the presidency.

This nit wit Commie Pinko loves hitching her wagon to losers. Wofford got his clock cleaned by Santorum, Gephardt lead the House Rats to a crushing defeat in '94 and now she is with a President that can't get above 45% in approval polls. This broad is the kiss of death for politicians.

22 posted on 03/15/2012 2:25:06 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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