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The Secret Shocking Truth About Barack Obama's Law School Teaching Experience!

He frittered away his days dancing and his nights romancingBecause words and details matter, and all of Barack Obama's words and details are wrong, he cannot be President. You see, he said that he used to be a professor at the University of Chicago Law School when in fact he was a lecturer and then a senior lecturer, which is a kind of professor. Patrick Leahy needs to tell this guy to get out of the race because his lies are just getting embarrassing.

Our tale starts way back on Monday, when Hillary Clinton's team released a statement saying "Sen. Obama consistently and falsely claims that he was a law professor." And then in response the University of Chicago Law School said this: "From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School."

It is nauseating that Barack Obama, having lied so horribly and blatantly about his so-called "professional experience," has now sucked one of the nation's best law schools into his Web of Untruth. Shame on you, Barack Obama!

Obama vindicated on law-school title [Politico]
Just Embellished Words: Senator Obama's Record of Exaggerations & Misstatements [HillaryClinton.com]
Statement Regarding Barack Obama [University of Chicago Law School]

4:45 PM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Sara K. Smith
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  • Hillary's next stunning announcement will be that he has consistently lied about being, you know, black.

  • Barry was an adjunct? Awesome. Even overeducated, underpaid career grad students can be president!

  • Comment on The Secret Shocking Truth About Barack Obama's Law School Teaching Experience! Wrong again, Pantsuit!

  • He also said he was an "attorney" when it's painfully obvious that he's a "lawyer".

  • The college apparently offered him full-time tenure, which is not something colleges do to people who only make up stories of having really taught there.

    Unless, that is, they are the Pentagon giving $300 million to fake companies led by 22 year old domestic abusers and their masseur VP's to sell ancient, dangerous, illegal munitions to our allies in Afghanistan so they can die for this kid's cheap profit.

  • This is kind of like their press release today saying that he lied when he said that he didn't take $$ from oil companies. They took all of the donations from people who listed an oil company as their employer and considered that donations from oil companies.

    I work at the University of Iowa and donated to him. That had nothing to do with my employment at the University.

    They take his statements and apply the "definition of is is" logic.

  • Barack's professorship doesn't count because the University of Chicago is located near Hyde Park, which is notoriously full of black people; also, UofChicago has a tremendous number of foreign students, some of them Muslim. By contrast, Hillary taught at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, where red-blooded "real Americans" live.

  • Busted! Everyone knows there's a difference. Because when I was a graduate student, I always raised my hand and said, "excuse me, Senior Lecturer Smith" when I had a question.

  • Also, as long as the Clinton campaign really wants to bring this up, they should point out that Hillz EPIC FAILED the D.C. Bar Exam. Oops! (She passed in Arkansas, though.)

    [www.politifact.com]

  • @EnBuenOra: I just don't understand why the Pentagon couldn't just pick up it's AK47 ammo at Walmart like American citizens do?

  • (btw, at my college, many of the most distinguished tenured professors who had taught generations of students were known as "Senior Lecturers", because they had stopped teaching a full course load and were semi-retired. And Barack was offered tenure, but turned it down to leave his political options open.)

  • Yeah, I love it that he was "only" a senior lecturer-type professor, along with other amateur hacks like Richard Posner.

  • He simply didn't have time to accept a full professorship, what with the praying five times a day and the building IEDs and such.

  • When Bill taught law at the University of Arkansas, he was known as Professor Luv. Seems fair enough.

  • Can we again bring up that business where the National Law Journal declared Hillary Clinton among the 'most influential lawyers in America', and she immediately started referring to this as 'best lawyers in America', and continued to do so after they repeatedly told her to stop?

  • @sluggo: Actually senior lecturer Luv.

  • Well, Michelle and Barack certainly fed off of that university trough. BTW, at my law school (UT), we avoided lecturers like the plague, as they cancelled half their classes to attend to other affairs, didn't keep office hours, and weren't prepared for the classes at which they did show up. But they still made us take a fucking 4 or 5 hour final, and graded the hell out of it. Basically, it was self-study without the pass/fail option.

  • @SayItWithWookies: also, being black, he was probably too lazy to do a full day's professorial work.

  • But did he teach law under sniper fire? I think not!

  • And this is from a woman who's more than likely lyiong about being from this planet?

  • @BoHan: Supposedly Barack was actually prepared and taught well. Which just shows his inexperience; Hillary would have known how to screw her students over from Day 1(TM).

  • Gee, I hope that some of you guys are not as void of conitive abilities as your posts would indicate. Obama are juvenile and without any basis in fact To say that your "green tinged" vitriolic diatribes re: Barack (incidentally, please see posting by the University of Chicago Law School verifying & clarifying Obama's affiliation).

  • University of Chicago School of Law? Doesn't even compare with Regent Law School, IMO.

  • @piobaroja: But he lies about this only half the time.

  • The Saviour lie?

    Perhaps Rev Wright - his spritual guide and mentor for 20+ years can help.

  • Also, one of his purple hearts was for a wound that wasn't even that big.

  • @sluggo: I always thought he was Dr. Magic Fingers.

  • He graded on a curve, the fucking commie.

  • @Sir_Walter_Raleigh: Agreed, from now on let's just call him Slowbama.

  • When I was in grad school at UC Berkeley, I taught a class at the university's extension program as an "instructor." We were given a hilarious list of terms that we were forbidden to refer to ourselves as, which included "professor" and "member of the faculty."

    Ironically, it actually paid better than being a TA for a real UCB class.

  • Jesus 'Hasselbeck' Christ! When will this Obama gentelman destroy himself already?

  • what ever happened to tony the tiger? he would be feeding off this.

  • @Tracer_Bullet:
    Perhaps correct, except for the fact that you did not use the singular and Bill never gained a doctorate in Hope, where even pigs can get a Ph.D.


  • @Senator Boomdog:"..Hillz EPIC FAILED the D.C. Bar Exam. Oops! (She passed in Arkansas, though.)"

    So, Hillaryous has 35 years of experience at "re-dos" and "makeups."

    Now she wants a second chance at winning the nomination. That explains the whole Michigan and Florida thingie.

    And why is she still in the race? She wants a second chance to enact Universal Health Care legislation, 'coz she kinda screwed the pooch on that one last time.

    And, if she's the winner in November, she'll want a second chance to be leader on Day One, when that doesn't pan out to anyone's satisfaction.

    And, after a lacklustre first term, she'll be back to beg for support in 2012, asking for a second chance to correct her first term.

    Shit, even the Spice Girls - mothers of the omnipotent "grrl power" movement - got a second chance with their recent tour. When ticket sales were in the shitter, even they could do the math and decided to quit. If even Baby Spice can calculate odds better than can Hillaryous, isn't the answer obvious?

    Baby Spice '08!!!

  • His posing as a "professor" is like his posing as a hard working senator-when he failed to show up at subcommittee hearings but pushed his way to the microphone to take credit for bills he never worked on. Just ask Kennedy or Dodd or other senators, who actually wrote the bills. Still that doesn't seem to bother either of them or the Obamaphiles. That is just what we need for four years- an arrogant poser who talks alot and takes credit for other people's work. Wasn't eight years of Bush enough for you? Obama is a snake oil salesman and you apparently can't get enough. How shallow and shortsighted!

  • @roseywoman:"That is just what we need for four years- an arrogant poser who talks alot and takes credit for other people's work.

    Oh, you must be referring to Hillaryous' years of anti-NAFTA work. [Oops, sorry, I forgot that in 2004 she said: "I think, on balance, NAFTA has been good for New York and America." Apparently, she wasn't actually against NAFTA until she decided to run for President. My mistake.]

    OK, you must be referring to the way she brought peace to Northern Ireland. [Ooops, sorry. I forgot that while others did that, she cut the crusts off the sandwiches eaten by those who did the actual work. As Nobel Peace Prize winner Lord David Trimble recalled, Clinton's claims that she helped create the Northern Ireland settlement were "a wee bit silly." My mistake.]

    So, you must be referring to Hillaryous' bravery under fire in Bosnia. [Ooops, sorry, I forgot that while others might have braved incoming rounds there, she had nothing to do with that. Hell, even the pilot said: "There were no bullets flying around, there wasn't a bumblebee flying around." My mistake.] So you must mean....

    Um, just what the fuck do you mean? Other than that your candydate is a lying, venomous, avaricious opportunist who'd prefer a McCain presidency to seeing a Democrat win in November, if it ain't her?

  • @roseywoman: it's hard to take you seriously when you obviously didn't read the article or are choosing to selectively understand it. There was no "posing". The University of Chicago considered his position equivilent to a professor, just part-time.

  • @Johnny Zhivago's Cat: The Pentagon isn't allowed to buy anything any more, because of something called "transformation" (a Dick Cheney/Donald Rumsfeld production). Every military job that isn't actually pulling a trigger has to be outsourced to a private contractor. And we're working on the shooters.

  • @roseywoman: And yet both Kennedy and Dodd prefer Obama to the Rambo-savior of Tuzla. Strange, that. How much dislike do you figure it takes to get people to cross the Clintons, especially when they work with one of them?

    Some lovely data can be found here: 10 Of Last 13 U.S. Senators Have Endorsed Obama.

    "Noteworthy is that on the day of the New Hampshire Primary, Hillary Clinton (D) led Barack Obama (D) in endorsements among their Senate colleagues by a 10 to 2 margin. After Sen. Bob Casey's (D-PA) endorsement of Obama yesterday, Clinton's margin is now a scant 13 to 12."

    So... basically, as soon as her so-workers realized that there was someone with a real chance to stick a fork in her, they started jumping on the Obama train.

    Lots of workplaces have someone like Clinton -- the precious anointed one with connections in the right places, whose route to power will be paved with your kidneys, if need be. But when their clout and connections fail them, and they have to look around for real friends to save their career, they find nothing but cold shoulders. And then, because they are utterly incapable of conceiving of a world in which the reservation of all desired honors for them is given anything other than the name of purest justice, they shake their heads in disgust at the pinheaded Judases who betrayed them.

  • Well, his being a professor doesn't count anyway as it was at the University of Chicago which is in Illinois. Illinois was won by Barack Obama and therefore obviously doesn't count. Only states that have primaries, are "big", and have been won by Hillary Clinton are actual states.

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