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Karl Rove on Obama's Exaggerations and Best Move for FL/MI | 124 comments (124 topical)

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Karl found a lemon and made lemonade (5.00 / 1) (#6)
by Prabhata on Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 08:41:25 PM EST
I don't think that Bush could have been elected without Karl.

Mike Allen is in the tank for Obama (none / 0) (#128)
by Exeter on Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 10:52:21 AM EST
He's been pretty outragious. Academia has its rules about who is called a professor and how to achieve academic rank. The University of Chicago is simply being disingenuous with their statement.

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no you are wrong (none / 0) (#134)
by Jeralyn on Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 12:01:23 PM EST
I've said it's a trifling matter but he was not a professor. He was a senior lecturer in law. Those of us who have been lecturers in law at law schools, including myself, and professors, know the difference and it's not a matter of semantics. What he was invited to do and declined doesn't change the facts. Nor does what students called him. My students called me "Professor" too.

He was not a constitutional law professor. He taught con law at a law school.

It was an exaggeration.

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not that there's anything wrong with that! (none / 0) (#138)
by cpinva on Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 12:09:12 PM EST
He taught con law at a law school.

but he wasn't a professor. no, it isn't merely a matter of "semantics", "senior lecturer" and "professor" are not the same. if they were, the school would have said so. they didn't.

what they said was that senior lecturers were often referred to by the honorific "professor". that isn't the same as actually being one.

my goodness, if this is the best that can be done on such a minor detail, imagine the field day the republican/rightwingut smear machine will have with all of them!

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Karl Rove on Obama's Exaggerations and Best Move for FL/MI | 124 comments (124 topical)

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