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Stranger in a strange land

September 3, 2008 - 4:46 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2008-09-05 08:07:57

What was the point of that screed? Quit posting novel-length Wikipedia entries. We are all competent enough to use Wiki ourselves (although to be fair, insulting people’s intelligence comes naturally to many of the Magic Negro’s supporters).

If I were you I would stop trumpeting O’s lawschool “accomplishments”. Whereas the average journal writer jumps at the chance to be published, we have had no confirmation that O produced anything other than one collection of unpublished “notes” (which are often 5-6 pages long, as opposed to the 40-page length of many full-fledged articles). O knew that he didn’t have to exert himself as editor: his half-black skin and white guilt exerted themselves on the usual left-wing suspects. I know firsthand about the write-on process, and it’s an open secret that minority candidates are held to a lower standard. Several months ago I watched a hapless 2L advisor at my school explain our Affirmative Action policies to an audience of 1L’s. The derision from many students was palpable, and you could tell she was mortified by the whole thing. This was DESPITE the fact that our campus is extremely “progressive”, with support for “O” at perhaps 90-95%.

I’ve been examining how O’s experience as a “Legal Expert” has affected his candidacy. Obama at one point stated that once elected, he and his attorney general would overturn Bush’s “illegal” laws-a shocking gaffe that mischaracterizes the executive branch’s powers. In his defense of the Boumediene travesty, O also said that Kennedy ruled in accordance with the precedent established at Nuremberg because the Nazis had been granted Habeas Corpus (problem is, they WEREN’T).

Acqaintances from his teaching days remember a distant man who was rarely willing (or able?) to engage in the vibrant teacher’s-lounge discussions characteristic of legal faculty. His classroom style revealed a fixation on “hot button” identity politics issues at the expense of less “exciting” areas of the law. Should the Magic Negro get himself elected, this intellectual underdevelopment will have an interesting effect, what with a bad economy and hotspots flaring up from Tblisi to Tehran. Just remember that he’s a Hah-vahd man, and that therefore we MUST be in good hands.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/09/obamas_ignorance_of_the_law.html

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/barack_obama_legal_scholar.html

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/3591