Peter,

Obama, as a senior lecturer at U of Chicago law, taught subjects including voting rights, campaign finance, and racism and the law. He did not publish, as he was spending his time serving the people of Illinois in the state legislature while engaged at UofC.

His grades aren’t really the issue here. He was offered a tenured position at the law school – not something to sneeze at. Find me one other “garden variety Chicago pol” that can say the same. You can’t? Point proved.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/us/politics/30law.html

Peace.

DS

Peter asks: really? What classes has he taught? What papers has he written? What grades did he earn? You obviously know all about Obama, so please enlighten us here.

Peter responds: Funny. How can the guy have an approval rating when he isn’t even in office yet?

http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/01/lost-in-fantasy-of-liberal-tax-doctrine.html

ANN COULTER VERSUS MICHELLE OBAMA: A QUESTION OF STYLE

In this corner, the contender weighing in at 135 pounds out of New York City, Anorexic Ann Coulter! . . . In the far corner weighing in at 152 out of the Windy City, Mighty Michelle Obama! . . . Now, shake hands, ladies, and have a good fight!

The Coulter-Obama drama hasn’t quite come to fisticuffs, at least not yet, but if it ever did, I’d have to give the edge to Michelle. If it came to a no-holds-barred debate, I’d go with the feistiest and more acerbic, Ann. If it came down to mud wrestling, I’d bet on a draw.

Ann is on a tear lately–as if she’s never on a tear–with her latest book, Guilty: Liberal “Victims” and their Assault on America. How she and others, liberals and conservatives, regularly churn out lengthy, researched volumes is mystifying to me, but they do and Coulter does it best when it comes to piercing the liberal jugular and making them yelp.

In her latest, Ann takes aim at, among other liberal targets and icons, the soon-to-be First Lady of the United States of America, Michelle Robinson Obama. Never one to pull her punches–Coulter has been called a flame thrower, a bomb thrower, and a dervish as well as being the object of uncomplimentary epithets–Ol’ Annie is taking on a formidable foe this time.

Calling a spade a spade, which term has no racial implications, certain topics in these, the free and semi-independent United States, have been tacitly declared off limits by the powers of political correctness. Those topics would include casting aspersions, whatever their merits, on the state of Israel, on homosexuals, and on Blacks.

It’s still perfectly PC-fine to rip Christianity and, especially Catholicism, to criticize straights who find the gay lifestyle sick and disturbing, and to attack those who point out the extent of Black crime. We of the faithful opposition say bunk to all that! All religions and nations, peoples, and races are flawed. We take issue with the current antipathy in some quarters to Christianity, to America, and to Caucasians.

We are not the religious bigots, the straight bigots, nor the racial bigots. We just demand that our voices be heard in an increasingly liberal, leftist America. If our opposition is interpreted as prejudiced or homophobic or racist, then so be it. Sooner be regarded as bigots by the true agents of bigotry than be regarded as the generation that surrendered to the forces of the actual bigotry and intolerance and to national and moral degradation.

White, Christian, heterosexuals are fed up with all that and we want, we demand as the majority constituency in America, that it be rectified.

Ann Coulter does not accuse Michelle Obama of any of the above nastiness,…

(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)

‘Need government’ huh? You’ll get what you wished for, fella. Obama’s going to create 100′s of thousands of more Gov’t jobs to go along with his ’4.1 million more jobs’ promise. Strange, he said 1 million while campaigning. ’3 million new jobs’ 7 days ago. Now, 4.1 million. Interesting…

JackT, do you know the oxymoron, ‘I’m from the Gov’t and I’m here to help.’

The millions without health care can right that ship. It’s called, ‘Free will.’ The U.S. is one of very few nations who can practice, accomplish and boast of its successes in that arena.

Benjamin Franklin once said (paraphrasing), ‘Those who are homeless, make them feel uncomfortable being homeless. They’ll better their situation because of it (i.e. ‘tough love’). He’d also said, ‘The country that treats their homeless best have the most homeless people.’

“When the truth
turns out to be lies
And all the joy
within you dies.”

The American (Constitutional) system of government is designed for incremental adjustments to the body politic.
Major change is impossible. Major “change” will destroy the system. So the Usurper can just make adjustments, in this precise case, those adjustments consist of turning back the clock to the Clinton administration.
That will lead to more terrorist attacks, since it was the Clinton administration policies that enabled the attacks in the first place.
Plus the CLinton administration. with it’s abuse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, created the current economic problems. So a resumption of those policies won’t cure the current depression. Obama is going the FDR road to cure the depression. It is a hard held liberal myth that the New Deal ended the great depression.
It was WW2 that ended the great depression.
So will the Usurper start WW3 to end the current depression? Nothing like a draft and putting 10 to 12 million men under arms to ensure full employment.