School Daze

Remember when Obama’s career as a “Constitutional Scholar” was supposedly a signal qualification for his bid for the presidency?

As we career toward the Supreme’s – ahem, the “Death Panel’s” – decision on Obamacare, either does law professor Glenn Reynolds:

Perhaps if Obama had ever written any scholarly articles on the Commerce Clause, he’d have had a better understanding. But then, he never wrote any scholarly articles on anything. As former Obama colleague Richard Epstein said: “I like Obama but I reject the suggestion that he is an intellectual. He is an activist merely mimicking the mannerisms of an intellectual.”

Not that being an intellectual is especially a qualification for the Presidency either; career academic Woodrow Wilson was not only one of our most disastrous presidents ever, but one of the most disastrous leaders in world history, whose incompetence caused problems we’re still paying for in treasure and blood (although he’s criminally overrated by the same academy he sprang from).

But as to those who said Obama’s tenure as a “constitutional law professor” was some sort of dispositive qualification for office?  Baked wind.  A President needs to know the Constitution about as well as a good policeman.  He’s got people to do the detail work.

Although with any luck, Obama’s going to need some new ones tomorrow.

9 thoughts on “School Daze

  1. Obama is so clearly narcissistic. He thinks all his bright ideas will just work out IN EVERY WAY just because he wishes it will and he’s good at the teleprompter.

  2. If people had vetted Obama back in 2008, they would probably have figured out that he wasn’t a true Constitutional scholar, but rather an “affirmative action hire” who couldn’t even figure out Marbury vs. Madison.

  3. He lectured on Con Law to first year students. That’s like teaching 10th grade social studies – it’s a required course but nobody cares about it, knowing the material isn’t required to graduate (merely time in seat), and anything you really need to know you learn in the Bar Review Course just before the bar exam. It was a fluff job, perfect for an Affirmative Action hire.

  4. UC law school sources have said that Obama was offered a tenured several times. Apparently no “journalist” ever thought to ask any of these sources on what basis Obama was offered tenure.

  5. He lectured on Con Law to first year students. That’s like teaching 10th grade social studies – it’s a required course but nobody cares about it, knowing the material isn’t required to graduate (merely time in seat), and anything you really need to know you learn in the Bar Review Course just before the bar exam. It was a fluff job, perfect for an Affirmative Action hire.

    Actually the courses that Obama taught were electives not required courses so it’s unlikely any 1Ls would have taken them or done so to fulfill a requirement. The Con Law course that he taught was more like Con Law 3 which is unlikely to appear on the bar exam.

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