U. of Chicago officially responds: Statement Regarding Professor Barack Obama

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Statement Regarding Professor Barack Obama

The Law School has received many media requests about Barack Obama, especially about his status as "Senior Lecturer."

From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year.

Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School's Senior Lecturers have high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching.

Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined.

http://www.law.uchicago.edu/media/index.html

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In related news...

The exaggerator meme you’ll soon be hearing a lot more about

Sometimes, you can see a meme coming, but you don't quite know what to do about it. The meme is big and bad, and likely to do some harm, but there's no real defense to soften the blow.

I'm referring, of course, to the notion that Hillary Clinton is a serial exaggerator. We haven't heard much about this, but I have a strong hunch it'll soon be unavoidable.

Consider the headlines from just the past few days. There's this AP item from this morning about Clinton exaggerating her work in bringing peace to Northern Ireland…

"It's crazy for Hillary to say she played a role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland…. She seems to be confusing her record with her husband's," said Robin Wilson, founder of a Northern Ireland think tank, Democratic Dialogue.

…and this item published in The Hill this morning about Clinton exaggerating her role in passing the Family and Medical Leave Act…

The former congressman who shepherded the Family and Medical Leave Act through Congress sought Thursday to debunk Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-N.Y.) claim to the legislation, saying she "never had anything to do with it."

Former Rep. William Lacy Clay, Sr. (D-Mo.) is circulating an email disputing Clinton's claim that the law is one of her more meaningful domestic accomplishments.

…and this item in Newsweek about the '96 Bosnia trip…

Is it possible that Hillary Clinton really thought she risked her life disembarking from a plane and running for cover "under sniper fire" at the heavily fortified U.S. Air Force base at Tuzla? Clinton has been telling the story of her visit to Bosnia in 1996 for many years, gradually adding embellishment and changing details. Perhaps she may have actually come to believe it.

…and this item from the Boston Globe about Clinton and S-CHIP.

Hillary Clinton, who has frequently described herself on the campaign trail as playing a pivotal role in forging a children's health insurance plan, had little to do with crafting the landmark legislation or ushering it through Congress, according to several lawmakers, staffers, and healthcare advocates involved in the issue.

There seems to be a common thread here.

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/