Obama's Law Professor: The President Must Be Defeated.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/16/roberto-unger-obama_n_1602812.html

One of President Barack Obama's former professors appears to have turned against him, according to a recent YouTube video.

"President Obama must be defeated in the coming election," Roberto Unger, a longtime professor at Harvard Law School who taught Obama, said in a video posted on May 22. "He has failed to advance the progressive cause in the United States."

Unger said that Obama must lose the election in order for "the voice of democratic prophecy to speak once again in American life."

He acknowledged that if a Republican wins the presidency, "there will be a cost ... in judicial and administrative appointments." But he said that "the risk of military adventurism" would be no worse under a Republican than under Obama, and that "the Democratic Party proposes no new direction."

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There's something about the words "voice of democratic prophesy" that makes me not entirely comfortable with listening to Dr. Unger. No wonder Obama is where he is...
 
Damocles said:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/16/roberto-unger-obama_n_1602812.html

One of President Barack Obama's former professors appears to have turned against him, according to a recent YouTube video.

"President Obama must be defeated in the coming election," Roberto Unger, a longtime professor at Harvard Law School who taught Obama, said in a video posted on May 22. "He has failed to advance the progressive cause in the United States."

Unger said that Obama must lose the election in order for "the voice of democratic prophecy to speak once again in American life."

He acknowledged that if a Republican wins the presidency, "there will be a cost ... in judicial and administrative appointments." But he said that "the risk of military adventurism" would be no worse under a Republican than under Obama, and that "the Democratic Party proposes no new direction."

More at link...
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what about the gop dedication to war with iran
 
Disillusioned said:
Obama's right with them on that one. He's the "death list" president who bombs countries he isn't even at war with, haven't you wondered why Pakistan isn't speaking to us anymore?
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I'd much rather Pakistan not speak to us, than to continue to take our billions, and still harbor our enemies.
 
Yeah, fuck Pakistan. All they ever do is stab us in the back. The only reason they get away with so much shit is that they have nukes and are largely seen as unstable.
 
Disillusioned said:
Obama's right with them on that one. He's the "death list" president who bombs countries he isn't even at war with, haven't you wondered why Pakistan isn't speaking to us anymore?
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you mean because they harbor our enemies that they cannot reach

the nations that we are not at war with have invited the us in to bomb terrorist organizations that they cannot reach
 
The professor went on to list his complaints:
  • "His policy is financial confidence and food stamps."
  • "He has spent trillions of dollars to rescue the moneyed interests and left workers and homeowners to their own devices."
  • "He has delivered the politics of democracy to the rule of money."
  • "He has disguised his surrender with an empty appeal to tax justice."
  • "He has reduced justice to charity."
  • "He has subordinated the broadening of economic and educational opportunity to the important but secondary issue of access to health care in the mistaken belief that he would be spared a fight."
  • "He has evoked a politics of handholding, but no one changes the world without a struggle."
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Some of these points have the scent of facts. But only a scent.

And the bold segement is true. My biggest complaint with Obama, is his number one agenda....to get re-elected.

As such, he's carefully crafted a history of reaching out to the republicans, only to have his hand slapped away.

He can now demonstrate that he's tried the 'compromise' method, and it doesn't work.


Perhaps when he has no future election to worry about, he'll get down to the business of change?
 
I wonder why Damocles didn't seem to give equal credence to multimillionaire Mittzie's former professor?



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In an interview with an Iowa radio station five years ago, the former Massachusetts governoracknowledged the influence ofa controversial figure from his own schoolboy past—W. Cleon Skousen, the late Mormon historian and tea party hero who taught Romney at Brigham Young University.

Romney's embrace of Skousen came in an August 2007 with Iowa talk radio host Jan Mickelson, a conservative talker Politico's Jonathan Martin calls "the Rush Limbaugh of Des Moines."

A former FBI agent, Salt Lake City police chief, and professional conspiracy theorist, Skousen fashioned a narrative of American history that held a unique appeal to religious conservatives—all based on the notion that the Founding Fathers were members of a lost tribe of Israel.

His work also sparked a fierce backlash over racist passages and baseless, bordering on conspiratorial, assertions that prompted the Mormon church to take steps to quash his influence.

"Cleon Skousen has a book called The Thousand Years" Romney said. The Thousand Years is actually a trilogy that details the 4,000 years that elapsed between the creation of the earth and the birth of Christ.

The book, Romney said, could set Mickelson straight on what he actually believes.

After his heyday in the 1980s, Skousen faded into irrelevance, only to be resurrected at the dawn of the tea party era.

Glenn Beck, who called Skousen's Five Thousand Year Leap "years ahead of its time," made its ideas the centerpiece of his 9/12 movement and wrote the foreword to a new edition of the book.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry said that Skousen "shares his views" on the founding of the country and touted him in speeches to evangelical audiences.

Constitutional seminars based on Skousen's theories of an Anglo-Saxon chosen people popped up across the country.

Conservatives have attempted to turn Obama's undergraduate and law school record into a wedge issue.

FOX News touted Obama's public embrace of a respected civil rights attorney and law school professor as evidence of unspoken extremist views; Romney surrogate Donald Trump publicly questioned whether Obama was a beneficiary of affirmative action; Romney, owner of two Harvard degrees, hammers the president for holding one.

Even the candidate's son, Tagg, got in on the action, joking last fall that his dad would release his tax returns when Obama released his transcript from Columbia University (and his birth certificate).

Democrats have thus far been reluctant to return the favor with Romney—but Skousen is a reminder that two can play that game.



http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/04/mitt-romney-cleon-skousen-nutty-professor
 
Yeah, fucktard, maybe there's room for this story in another thread of it's own. I'm mad at Damo as well for not crowding out his OP with bullshit that I pretend to think is important as well.
 
Threedee said:
Yeah, fucktard, maybe there's room for this story in another thread of it's own. I'm mad at Damo as well for not crowding out his OP with bullshit that I pretend to think is important as well.
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When did the requirement to post equal amounts concerning either side become law?

If someone posts a derogatory comment about one side or group, they must post the same about all sides and groups?

This is just a logical extension of the "But they do it too!" whiners argument.
 
Threedee said:
Yeah, fucktard, maybe there's room for this story in another thread of it's own. I'm mad at Damo as well for not crowding out his OP with bullshit that I pretend to think is important as well.
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Not so eager to dig up stories about Romney's school days?
 
WinterBorn said:
You seem to be fond of insisting that people do so. In the thread about buddhists you were plugging away for Damo to speak up for every other religion. You seem to prefer to deflect a topic than to discuss it.
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Perhaps I seem to point out hypocrisy....
 
Onceler said:
He's speaking as a citizen, not as someone who was part of Obama's life. Not really worthy of a thread, imo.
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Ironic that he seems to have said that Obama must be defeated for betraying the leftist ideals many righties accuse him of implementing, isn't it?
 
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