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In his 12 years teaching at the University of Chicago Law School, Barack Obama was both popular and enigmatic.
CHICAGO — The young law professor stood apart in too many ways to count. At a
school where economic analysis was all the rage, he taught rights, race and
gender. Other faculty members dreamed of tenured positions; he turned them down.
While most colleagues published by the pound, he never completed a single work
of legal scholarship.
At a formal institution, Barack Obama was a loose presence, joking with students about their romantic prospects, using first names, referring to case law one moment and “The Godfather” the next. He was also an enigmatic one, often leaving fellow faculty members guessing about his precise views.
Mr. Obama, now the junior senator from Illinois and the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, spent 12 years at the University of Chicago Law School. Most aspiring politicians do not dwell in the halls of academia, and few promising young legal thinkers toil in state legislatures. Mr. Obama planted a foot in each, splitting his weeks between an elite law school and the far less rarefied atmosphere of the Illinois Senate...
Great Post!
I added this post to Digg and hope that it gets out there for many to see. Ultimately, I think that very few voters know too much about Obama's past. The argument that he knows nothing about the education system seems to be blown out of the water by the fact that he was a law professor. Thanks for getting this out there. I think it's relevant for both sides of the issue and helps to show how intellectual thought leaders are made.
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