Very interesting. And I've read this elsewhere. Thank you for the fraternal correction.
It is interesting that he would be offered a tenure-track job. Just like Avacado can tell you about Harvard, I can tell you that there was more than one member of the U of C staff that believed that Obama did not come close to publishing or litigating enough to be considered for a full professorship.
The Chicago Way wrote:
Thank you for the fraternal correction.
What is a "fraternal correction"?
The Chicago Way wrote:
You also might hear (if the professor is not a left wing Obama cultist) that Obama was a political hire, and did not have the requisite background to be offered a full professorship (although the school would happily have kept him as a lecturer.)
That is absolutely false. First, as another pointed out, Obama repeatedly turned down Chicago's offers of a tenure-track professorship. Second, Obama was not a political hire. Obama was recommended for the Chicago faculty by Michael McConnell, a professor at Chicago who had been very impressed by Obama's editing of McConnell's article in the Harvard Law Review. McConnell is a well-known conservative Republican who was eventually appointed by George W. Bush to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. I know McConnell fairly well, having edited one of his articles myself when I was in law school many years ago, and having argued appellate cases in front of him in recent years. McConnell would have never recommended Obama as some sort of "political hire" for Chicago; McConnell simply respected Obama's scholarship and intellect.
I understand that one or more conservatives on the Chicago faculty were not enamoured of Obama and his rock-star presence on the faculty. In particular, Richard Epstein (another conservative Chicago professor whose work I edited in law school) never saw eye-to-eye with Obama on constitutional law, and has spoken publicly about his impressions of Obama when he was a lecturer at Chicago. I doubt that Epstein did or would have voted in favor of Obama as a tenure-track faculty member, but Epstein's views would not have been reflective of the faculty as a whole. Indeed, Epstein's political and jurisprudential views place him in a rather marginalized position among constitutional scholars, probably even at a place like the Universtiy of Chicago Law School.
Why ask why? wrote:
xcrunner5 wrote:Second, it is NOT security and therefore can not be relegated as such. Would you regulate interest rate swaps, equity derivatives, commodity derivatives or weather derivatives - of course not..
Which equity and commodity derivative aren't regulated?
Apparently all of them...according the the commodity futures trading commision.
http://www.cftc.gov/stellent/groups/public/@newsroom/documents/speechandtestimony/opagensler-3.pdfPoppy.. wrote:
Again, everything you say is just bull liberal smoke and mirrors. I'm real happy my man. I live in the only state that I can sell my house for what it is worth. Now why would that be? Let me see your people always use the race word. Since I am a white I have to only use it, as a tough guy, like you says. I never tasted gin in my life. I'll bet you have. I could care less about my writing on a little forum like this. Its fun to get on here and stir the poo with you fools that like to hide behind your computers. Tough guys like you throw out personnel insults to men that you would never dream of face to face.
You have no idea who I am. If you knew you would just die.
Got a couple people here everyone is laughing so hard ...you stupid fool white boy.
I will say one thing: for a guy who is clearly mentally challenged (" like you says" ?? "personnel insults" ?? "you stupid fool white boy" ?? "I could care less" ?? Almost no correct punctuation anywhere, etc, etc) you apparently raised a son who is a good student. Kudos to you!
(Oh, and you do sound scary tough by the way.)
How Hillsdale beats Harvard:
"In fact, they [Jews and Asians] are admitted at rates three times what they would be if grades and test scores were the only criteria."
Before you slander entire ethnic groups, you better have supporting evidence, even on letsrun.com. Evidence ?