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Tuesday, September 02, 2008

It Was the Best of Resume's, It Was the Worst of Resume's

4 comments:

Mr roT said...: On topic, and with priceless tidbits.; 9/02/2008 11:04 AM
Tecumseh said...: He didn't finish his book during the two years in question. He didn't pursue any scholarship at the University of Chicago, so his career there stalled at lecturer and never advanced to the professor level.

This is correct to some degree, but I think misses the point: when they hire you as part-time instructor at U. Chicago (as they hired Obama way back), there is no implicit or explicit promise of tenure, right? Even if he had written several scholarly articles, they would not have promoted him to "professor level", would they? Not in the world I know of -- but then again, you never know with pinko demigods, perhaps rules don't apply. What says you, AA -- you know U. Chicago much better than I (I only saw UIC the one time I went to Chicago -- what a drab, concrete tower they have there!); 9/02/2008 1:16 PM
Tecumseh said...: Obama does have the requisite brain power to be president; it's unlikely that the intellectual demands of the job would overwhelm him. But his past work experience is unnerving. Obama had ample talent to excel at all the other positions he has held, and yet he accomplished little at each. Yeah, I know the type. Happens all the time with grad students -- the ones that talk big and have read all the books (especially the ones full of abstract nonsense), but then choke when it comes to actually doing something with all that. I was a bit like that in my flaming youth, before I managed to pull myself by my bootstraps. So I have sympathy for the type -- up to a point. And being CinC is certainly beyond that point.; 9/02/2008 1:22 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: At the Chicago law school, at least back in the 80s, all new instructors [as opposed to Professors] were part-time. It was considered a sort of post-doc for the legal set. You would be expected to do research, write papers published in law journals, and participate in some form of the practice of law [either through organizations attached to the university, or through contract to some outside firm].
Professors were drawn from three sources. The instructors, described above; Professors at other law schools who had drawn attention from the U of C; Top practicing lawyers/former judges who had a reputation for important or impressive thought in their legal efforts.
Obama not becoming a Professor is no great shakes, very few of the instructors reached that plateau. However, to have no published no papers is extraordinarily poor. Most of those I knew went off to lucrative real world jobs with close to a dozen published pieces under their belts....
The problem with Obama, where he reveals himself, is not at the U of C. The problem is with that "community organizer" gig, which kept him in good hock up to the day he became a State Senator. Illinois politics are awfully corrupt. Chicago politics make most of Illinois look like Salt Lake City 1980. Working with the Chicago machine at the ward level, and the radical/racialist community organizer folk were primarily at or just above the ward level, made the rest of Chicago politics look like fuckin' 1975 Norway.
To succeed in that milieu Obama had to have a deep respect for the uses of the most anti-democratic practices, and beyond the stupidity of his leftism that in itself would make him highly dangerous.; 9/02/2008 4:45 PM

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