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Remainders: Obamba
Ben Smith's Blog —
... but notes that he hasn't accomplished much as governor.
Kaine says he's not campaigning for veep, or asking for it -- a necessary statement if he wants the job.
He grew up in Missouri, where Obama's headed.
BarackBook is rapidly hijacked and turned against McCain.
Jed points out that the AFL-CIO mailer works because it leads with positive questions about Obama, and doesn't repeat negative assumptions.
The Times posts Professor Obama's course materials.
Pay $5 to retire Clinton's debt ...
Obama, Law Professor: Inside His Classroom
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... 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.
Read some of Obama's old class materials here.
It's Christmas in July
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] Go inside Barack Obama's con law class . Final exam, 2003, first question involves gay marriage in the State of Nirvana. Someone wake up "Bench Memos." ...
Inside Professor Obama's Classroom
Little Green Footballs —
... Want to know what Barack Obama believes? Check out what he taught his students: Inside Professor Obama’s Classroom - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog. ...
The Obama Exams
A Blog For All —
The New York Times managed to locate several years worth of exams and model answers to exams that Sen. Barack Obama gave. I've started to review them, and for the most part, it's boiler plate constitutional law and fact patterns. Nothing that really should surprise anyone who has gone to law school. One area that lecturers and professors in law school often find humor is in the names of people and places in the fact patterns. In the course of reviewing the first set of exams (1997), I thought the name of the school in Part II was odd. He called it the Ujamaa School. So, I did ...
Obama as a Law Teacher.--
The Volokh Conspiracy —
... . . . Because he never fully engaged, Mr. Obama “doesn’t have the slightest sense of where folks like me are coming from,” Mr. Epstein said. “He was a successful teacher and an absentee tenant on the other issues.” Because my daughter, who is doing an internship at the Chicago Law Library, made copies of Obama's course evaluations for the Times reporters, I sort of expected that this story was coming. The Times blog has his syllabi and exams as well, and our own Randy Barnett will be commenting on them on Wednesday.
Obama Too Cool For School
Outside The Beltway | OTB —
... ,” is a series of anecdotes woven together to present the picture of a gifted teacher who had one foot in the classroom and another in politics and who refused to do anything, including writing scholarly articles, which might be used against him in a campaign. A companian blog piece, “ Inside Professor Obama’s Classroom ,” provides some primary source documents, mostly course materials. The overnight reaction has come mostly from the Right. ...
Professor Obama
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
By Patrick Appel The Caucus posts Obama's class syllabus.
What Barack Obama did not tell his students [Karl]
protein wisdom —
... fluffy New York Times article on Barack Obama’s stint as a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School is her accompanying Caucus blog post , which includes a number of the exams and answer memos he prepared. The legal analyses would probably be a bit of a slog for the non-lawyer (and the paper has solicited reax from a range of professors to be published today), but there is at least one question that has a non-legal aspect worth noting. ...
A Look Into Obama’s Mind
The Moderate Voice —
... In unearthing the syllabus and assignments for his seminar in “Current Issues in Racism and the Law” during 12 years of teaching at the University of Chicago, the New York Times offers a preview of how Barack Obama’s mind might work in the Oval Office. ...
Over-reading the syllabus
Ben Smith's Blog —
... The New York Times has posted Obama’s syllabi from his teaching years at the University of Chicago, and, like most Obama material from the 1990s, there’s a real continuity between even the tone of his course descriptions and his political style. ...
