Obama Admirer to Teach ‘Understanding Obama’ Class at Harvard Law School
Not every Harvard Law School alumnus has a class devoted to him — but then, President Barack Obama is not just any alumnus.
According to the Harvard Law School course catalog, professor Charles Ogletree will be teaching a reading group called 'Undertsnading Obama' for one classroom credit during the 2013 spring term.
'This reading group will focus on the way in which race, religion, and politics have impacted the development of President Obama as a leader,' the Harvard Law School Course Catalog explains. 'We will explore his views as a biracial child, his time as a student at Harvard Law School, the successes and failures of his political campaigns, and the way religion and his views on faith nearly derailed his campaign. Finally, time will be spent analyzing the challenges he faces as president of the United States in establishing both his domestic and global policies.'
Ogletree was a mentor both President Obama and Michelle Obama while they were Harvard law students.
More on the course offering: dailycaller.com
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I am taking bets as to whether 'the way in which race has impacted the development of Obama as a leader' will include sitting in Jeremiah Wright’s Black Liberation Theology, hate-the-white-man-and-America congregation for twenty years without absorbing any of the sermon content. Or whether it will include Obama’s consistent defense of black criminals while ignoring crimes against whites. Or his Justice Department’s refusal to prosecute blacks who committed gross voter intimidation because Eric Holder does not want to ruffle the feathers of ‘his people’. (There’s more, but it’s all along the same lines.)
If Ogletree has information on Obama’s 'time as a student' at Harvard Law School, I wish he would share that information with the rest of us. We have spent more than three years attempting to find out what Barack did during his years of ‘higher education’, and, other than the fact that he sought out Marxist professors as his primary mentors, we’ve come up pretty empty-handed.
I also can't help but wonder whether Ogletree will accurately portray Obama's 'domestic and global policies' as policies aimed at increasing America's energy dependence, destroying any trace of free enterprise, usurping massive unconstitutional power for the federal government, supporting racial discrimination under the guise of social justice, erasing our national borders in favor of both illegal immigration and global governance, increasing the power of radical Islam in the Middle East, destroying the checks-and-balances provision of the Constitution so as to render the executive branch sovereign, running up a gargantuan debt that no future generation of Americans can hope to repay. (There’s more, but it’s all along the same lines.)
All rhetorical questions, to be sure. The answer to each of the last three paragraphs is surely a resounding No. But the students enrolled in Ogletree's class at Harvard will be receiving what the decision-makers in today's 'higher education' consider to be a well-rounded education, rendering them entirely capable of understanding twenty-first century America. It's just too bad that that portrait of America bears absolutely no resemblance to our Founders' vision. |
