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juliaoceania -> RE: Obama at the Correspondent's Dinner (5/1/2011 9:06:15 AM)
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I spent some time with the highest tenured faculty member at Chicago Law a few months back, and he did not have many nice things to say about "Barry."
I love rumors like this...
Even if it is true, academics are notorious for their professional jealousy and backbiting. There is also a high level of self delusion in which some people who are prone to fits of professional jealousy find reasons to support their delusions that they were passed over for such advancement by someone else due to nepotism, ass kissing, affirmative action, etc etc etc. The propensity for people to delude themselves as to the reasons for their own mediocrity as compared to someone else who outshines them on every level is rather common. If it were true, I would love to see this high ranking academic. I bet he would be old, fat, balding, and his abilities as an orator would be extremely limited. It is hard to admit that someone else outperforms you not only on the basis of appearance, but the one thing you laud yourself on, your intellect. I bet this guy has some major sour grapes that Barrack Obama beats him on every level.
I say this as someone who is not a supporter of Obama's politics, he is much too moderate for me. I will say Obama is one of the most articulate (if not the most articulate) speakers I have ever seen. He would easily be a favorite professor if I had the luck to have him teach me. Part of being a good professor is being able to communicate ideas in a way that grabs the attention of students, Obama does this in spades. I have seen more than one professor jealous of another on that basis alone, being pissed off that everyone wanted to take a class with a young, dynamic, articulate instructor, instead of falling asleep in someone else's classes....
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