Perhaps if Obama had ever written any scholarly articles on the Commerce Clause, he\u2019d have had a better understanding. But then, he never wrote any scholarly articles on anything. As former Obama colleague Richard Epstein said: \u201cI like Obama but I reject the suggestion that he is an intellectual. He is an activist merely mimicking the mannerisms of an intellectual.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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).<\/p>\n
But as to those who said Obama’s tenure as a “constitutional law professor” was some sort of dispositive qualification for office? \u00a0Baked wind. \u00a0A President needs to know the Constitution about as well as a good policeman. \u00a0He’s got people to do the detail work.<\/p>\n
Although with any luck, Obama’s going to need some new ones tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0does law professor Glenn Reynolds: Perhaps if Obama had ever written any scholarly articles on the Commerce Clause, he\u2019d have had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,66,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-health-care","category-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28649,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28646\/revisions\/28649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}