(CNN) – The University of Chicago said Friday Barack Obama accurately described himself as a onetime law professor at the school, despite the fact his formal title was "Senior Lecturer."
The university's statement comes after the Clinton campaign recently suggested on several occasions that the Illinois senator was embellishing his role at the school by calling himself a professor.
The campaign also sent out a press release quoting a 2004 Chicago Sun-Times column that stated of Obama's professor claim: "Several direct-mail pieces issued for Obama's primary campaign said he was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He is not. He is a senior lecturer (now on leave) at the school. In academia, there is a vast difference between the two titles. Details matter."
But in a statement, the university said its senior lecturers are considered professors.
"From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School," the statement said.
"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," it also said.
– CNN's Alexander Mooney and Peter Hamby
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This woman is such a loser. She is really preparing for 2012. She wants Obama to lose this year, so she can stage a comeback in 4 years.
See, Clinton, unlike you, Obama has real world experience that counts.
ooooh burnnn hilllary!!
The only one doing any embellishing, Hillary, is YOU. And anyone who has been shot at, or signed their life away in defense of this country, should despise you. You make me sick.
Obama '08
epic fail by hillary
she knows a thing or two about embellishment
nice picture to match the text....looks like he is saying..."see, I told you so!"
Obama SHOULD be questioned on everything he says – he's told so many lies!
Take that Clintonistas!
Funny that the consistent liar in this campaign is attempting to tarnish the honest one.
Oh...is that egg on your face I smell....can we now focus on the real issues facing America
I didn't know about this, every day I respect this man more and more. Usually its the other way around with other politicians.
If the University considered him a professor, then why didn't they give him the title ?
Yeah.. Mr. Obama is a professor who has been taught by his evil pastor for 20 years!
Then I really doubt Mr Obama's quality to be a professor. Oh! Right, Maybe he is the professor from Community College!
No Obama, Forever!
2008 Hillary
This leaves no doubt. Clinton has turned over her campaign to third-graders. Pretty soon she'll start accusing him of having coodies and making fun of his looks.
How sad for the country that Hilliary Clinton has nothing positive about herself to run on that she can only try and fail to smear Obama. It really makes one realize what a total lack of substance there is to Hilliary's character and person. I truly don't think Hilliary is fit to hold any office after showing us her true colors. I feel very sad for and hope she will do the right thing now for the country and embrace Obama as the Democratic nominee. She should take some time to reflect on herself and try to find her humanity that she apparently sold away years ago.
Another despicable act of desperation from the Clinton campaign. This getting oh, so tiring...
SHAMW on you Hillary... You still looking for negative tricks... You better behave and stop ... You just make people sick. Is this the way you want to be a president just looking in people's life? Go back to economy, healthcare or watch up Bill ...!
Sounds like it as HE is Nothing but a Talker! In other words Pure Looser!
The Clinton campaign is something and tries so hard to play dirty politics. It's really great that the University of Chicago stepped up immediately to say what Obama's role/title was at the Law School. The Clinton campaign looks so silly and really doesn't get it yet. The people of this country would like to have Obama as President and not Clinton!
Cannot compare that to the clear lie of being under sniper fire. Get a life Clinton camp.
POOR CLINTON CAMPAIGN. THEY DO NOT FIND NOTHING BETTER TO INVENT !!
ALBO
SHAME on you Hillary… You still looking for negative tricks… You better behave and stop … You just make people sick. Is this the way you want to be a president just looking in people's life? Go back to economy, healthcare or watch up Bill …!
Hillary, we understand that you judge everybody by your measures and as a result, expect everybody to embellish his resume with exaggeration or blunt lies like you do (e.g. sniper fire in bosnia, peace in ireland etc.). But, I would like to remind you that not everybody can ignore his conscience, and ethical and moral values.
Please give up these silly and futile attempts to pull down Obama's popularity, because it's not gonna go down!
LOL, another lie!!!
GO Hillary!!
Thank you. For the love of God this is getting ridiculous. Anything to distract people from the fact that Hillary is lying though her teeth to try to fill out those "35 years of experience"...all they can do is try to on Obama is twist the semantics of anyone within four degrees of seperation from him and it's not working. Maybe people should just consider that perhaps he really is who he says he is. There has been nothing tangible or credible to suggest otherwise. Hillary needs to drop out, unless she really believes John McCain and a continuation of the Bush doctrine of costly blundered invasions and disasterious fiscal policy would be better for the country than an Obama presidency. In that case she's accomplishing her goal. Still, nothing would kill the Dems chances in November more at this point than having the party elite overturn popularly elected delegates and the popular vote and nominate Hillary Clinton.
TOUCHE' , Hillary. Guess that mud slingin topic is dried up. Guess we can always talk about your embellished resume Hillary.
talk about the Clinton spin machine smearing a straight and honest man...BARACK OBAMA, has not, will not, pad his resume just like Billary did with the Bosnia sniper fire and Ireland peace talk.
Glad the university is coming out to get the record straight!
BILLARY, PLEASE GO AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
WAY TO GO, BARACK!
Embellishments from Obama....Embellishments from Clinton
SCORE TIED.
Give it a rest and report REAL news
The first time I heard Sen. Obama speak was during my graduate school orientation at the University of Chicago in 2002. As it was one of those moments I'll never forget, I can attest that he was introduced to us as a professor in the law department, as well as an Illinois state senator.
Maybe the Clinton campaign should have done their homework before opening their big mouths again, ie; Bosnia, Healthcare, Nafta, Ireland..etc..etc...etc. The University even said Obama was a Professor. Which means:
Obama: 100
Hillary – 5
They cant seem to get anything right!
Just drop out Hillary. You're a liar and the people running your campaign obviously have a lack of attention to detail!
Obama is the most honest presidential candidate we have had in decades. I suggest people do their research before making claims that he is a huge liar. I can't wait for this country to get back on track with his leadership and honesty. Please, before making judgments, take some time to read his books and develop your own opinion instead of the one fed to you by news corporations.
FYI, news agencies are large corporations and will only see benefit from a republican president. They are blowing the flames on this democratic battle. Take what you read with a grain of salt.
Has the Clinton campaign really gotten that desperate? If after their extensive search to uncover dirt on Obama that's the best they can do, I think they'd have been better off saying nothing at all, because the absence of any real dirt only makes him look like an even bigger Boy Scout.
Give it up, Hillary. It's over.
Details matter? -Are you satisfied now.
If you teach at a college in any way, you are a Professor in my book.
Obama Richardson 08!!!
I guess there are no "bullets" or gunfire missing any body here; so, Obama needs no secret service to duck this bullet coiming at him! The point here is simple: can we validate what the candidate him/her-self says, not what someone else (Pastor Judas) says on behalf of the candidates?
I had always thought of this nation as one that puts a premium on "individual responsiblity." So, are we saying that all parents who spend years raising "adolescents and young adults" (ages 18 and older) with severe societal problems should abandon them because they "kick against the rules of society?" Or, that the parents of serial killers should take "full responsibility" for the acts of their children? How screwed up our thinking has become truly amazes me!!!
TELL ME ANOTHER STORY.
IN YOUR FACE HILLARY...
Pack it in Hillary..time to go home...
Wow. They really tried that???
This is laughable!
The Clinton campaign is looking worse and worse as the days go on.
-J
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This, my friends, is the difference between a liar and a truthful person. There are always evidences to backup the truth, but never for those lies by HRC.
The question is, "Who would you trust with your lives, A liar like GW Bush or Truthful person like Obama?
It even turns out that this MAN was deeply loved by the University that they offered him tenure track several times but he refused. He wants to serve us, the populace. How refreshing this is.
Hillary LIED about her experience.
Obama is honest about his experience.
Why are people having a hard time with their choice?
Obama 2008! We deserve a President we can TRUST!!!!!!!
Clinton campaign should probably do a little research before accusing someone of embellishing anything (cough *Bosnia* cough). This is the leadership we are looking for in America? Finger-pointers? Maybe they could save us some time and make the top of the Democratic ticket just a 5-year old bully.
Al Gore should be the compromised candidate. Give Obama the VP and Hillary the foreign affairsc secretary position. I think that makes everyone happy.
Even if Obama wins the nomination, the Hillary or Bill Clinton followers are LUKEWARM in voting for him. Republicans will chew him alive during the general election campaign. And if he wins the Presidency, his administration will be riddled with controversies among black and white americans, among conservative republicans as well as rebellious democrats. He will only be embraced by youth and blacks and eventually will junk once he fails to restore faith in America and its economy. Many silent majority from big states who are not black or white are completely unhappy with his sudden surge and ambitious posture without any accomplishment in the Senate except for giving good speeches. A VP position is good enough for the greenhorn.
Well, that settles it. The school would be the authority on this one!
Clinton and Co: Try another one. This one was a dud.
OK...when is the Clinton SSS gonna realize Obama was never under sniper fire and would never say he was...if he says he was a professor AND the university says he was a professor...HE OBVIOUSLY WAS A PROFESSOR. Did you ever think the man just tells the truth...plain and simple...not embellished...no need to claim sleep deprivation or misspeaks...just the truth.
Go away Clintons...we are sick and tired of your old school politics.
Obama is a fantastic teacher and lecturer. People sit up and want
to listen to him. That is a great character trait for "A President. His voice is calming.
Obama/Edwards 2008
From a Retired Professional White Woman of 63.
I'm glad they cleared that one up! Really, is this all Hillary has left in the kitchen sink? She goes around fabricating stories of sniper fire and she wants to argue over whether or not Obama can call himself a Professor. She is so desperate.
Hillary, please do everyone a favor and drop out.
OBAMA '08
Unlike Hillary Clinton, Obama doesn't need to embellish. It was a bottom of the barrel tactic for her campaign to make this an issue.
TAKE THAT CLINTON CAMPAING! that was a Shut up please.!
Obama 08
I'm taking odds on how long it takes before the first Rodham supporter uses the words "Rev. Wright."
Haha, that "dirt-attack" didn't work out too well. The Clinton campain basically just proofed that they can't even do a proper research. Let's see what comes next.
Obama tells the truth about his background while Clinton lies and embellishes her background. It's that simple. Honest politician and decent guy against a dishonest politician binded by her own ambition.
OBAMA 08
And anyone with the least familiarity with academia would know this – Hillary Clinton's people are either ignorant or shameless – or maybe both!
He shoots... HE SCORES!
Obama '08
Obama belongs in a Professorship of a Law School. Perfect Vocation for Obama; however, he is NOT qualified, because of his total lack of experience, to be the President of this great Nation.
He was a professor, not just married to a professor.
Uh-oh... Hillary was caught lying again!~ I believe that's the fourth one exposed this week! No wonder her rating as trustworthy is at a 7 year low!
Can we please not get riled up about this?
Well , by this argument Hillary is overwhelmingly more qualified to lead the country than Obama.
This should closed the issue to his status as a law professor.......or will Hillary have a rebuttal to the University of Chicago's statement?
Is it anybody's fault that Billary and Hillam (including Chelsea) can not even tell their shadow or mirror image the truth. They need to realise everybody is not pathetic liars as they are. Americans how noble will it be to have a second lying president be sure you ve got someone out to double check whatever they tell you, even when it is day check to be sure it is really really really...day.
President Professor Obama!!! I like the sound of that. Such better than all the other options. Certainly better than what we have now.
Obama '08
I guess Clinton will be "under sniper fire" after this...
Like always...just a bunch of hot air.
Obama supporters generally consider embellishments lies.
But not when it is Obama
There she goes again, trying to get everybody in the mud with her. She fabricates (or lies, however you want to label it) and then tries to get everyone down in the gutter with her. What an inspirational leader she is? NOT!
of course it's from IL, they'll back what he says. Maybe the news will ask other PROFESSORS, if that's true, but not use their names as they might get fired for correcting their golden boy.
Anyone else find this funny? Clinton is telling everyone details matter, while at the same time talking about running for cover in Bosnia. Hilarious.
Shame on the Clinton Campaign!
The Clintons saying "details matter" is a little like David Duke calling someone a racist. But more seriously, maybe they should have done a little more fact checking before making fools out of themselves–yet again. Then again, since Hillary couldn't be bothered to read the entire report on something as important as the Iraq war, how could we expect her or her campaign to be expected to expend energy checking what this university considered a professor.
haah...Hillary..HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I hate you..girl...
This man DOES NOT lie.
He just constantly distorts and reshapes the truth.
He just constantly re-spins words to excuse what he actually said.
Gimme Hillary
Obama supporters always ask Clinton to quit everytime she is about to win a primary hmmmm.........Not this not patriotic!
Now what? What else are they going to try and dig up...should have done their research before even putting it out there. I will ceratinly be gald when this mess is doen and over with. It is really taking too much time and attention of what really matters.
One more time, minus one for the Clintons. Obama just proved he is a reliable person. Anything else you want prove of Mrs Clinton?
When I worked for the music department at a major university, the top professional musicians who taught academic courses there had the title Senior Lecturer. They were considered faculty members on an equal footing with the tenure-track faculty. I never heard one of them call himself a professor, but it doesn't seem out of line to describe oneself that way to people who may not be familiar with the other term.
me to the Clinton campaign: really? REALLY?
Details matter when you're discussing your trip to Bosnia, or when you're talking about peace deals you DID NOT broker in Ireland. Details such as your tax returns matter....shall I go on?
UGH.
Obama, the Professor, in 08.
I am glad to see the university come out and speak about what Senator Barack Obama was at the university. the negative side of this campaign needs to end. As an fellow Democrat we need to come together to win the White House
And who is the University of Chicago supporting???? duh!!
What else would they say, they can't knock the one they support!!!
Do their professors consider themselves senior lecturers?
If 'details matter', as per Hillary Clinton's campaign, then the carpetbagging Arkansan who is using New York as her stepping stone to return to the Whute House, should have known that when she claimed she was under sniper fire in Bosnia when video footage of her Bosnia trip contradicts her claim.
Details matter!
Truth matter!
Are you kidding me? This is what you call news?
For someone who harps on Hillary's 35yrs of experience..
Now we are to believe that "Lecturer" = "Professor"?
HILLARY ALL THE WAY!!
Senator Obama is not a Professor... Whatever... He never acted like a Senator either...
Now what? What else are they going to try and dig up...should have done their research before even putting it out there. I will certainly be glad when this mess is done and over with. It is really taking too much time and attention away from what really matters.
How many straws are left for Clinton to grasp at? Is this really the best she can do? Doesn't she see the futility of her lame arguments and attacks? It's clear she can't make a case for herself as the nominee standing on her own merits without lying, and she can't even shoot down her opponent without lying! I think that should be a signal to her and her campaign.
Let's call the whole thing off
Yet ANOTHER SWING and a MISS for the Billary SLIME Machine.
Still waiting on ALL of the stuff from you Hill
Taxes
Donors
Earmarks etc etc etc
Keep stooping Hillary...you're pretty close to the bottom already!
"In academia, there is a vast difference between the two titles." I like how the campaign is speaking on some kind of imaginary grounds of authority here. Yeah, this is small potatoes compared to what dialogues should really be happening, but an amusing sidenote nonetheless.
what is the news? how is this relevant to the primary race? this isn't like hillary's bosnia lies. get back to the issues.
If a Sr. Lecturer is a Professor why do you call him a Sr. Lecturer? I'll agree to call him a professor of lecturing – that's all he is.
NOTHING OBAMA SAYS surprises me, after all on the VIEW he says if his Pastor wouldn't have retired he would have quit attending his church. DID'NT he previously say in his speach I couldn't disown my Pastor as he is like a family member! Then previously before that he said he NEVER heard anything negative while he was in the pews, then he changed that in his speach to well yes he had heard this negative talk. AND THE GUY SAYS HILLARY WILL SAY ANYTHING TO GET ELECTED! HE"S SO FULL OF IT HIS EYES ARE BROWN!!!
That is why he is so much more intellgent then the REPUBLICAN IDIOT we call our president and our current REPUBLICAN remedial nominee who can only read off the tele-prompter (and he barely does that right).
and to those who say that if their nominee isn't selected they will vote for McCain, your are just as remedial as McCain and anyone else who votes for him!!!
HILLARY DOES WANT TO HAVE THE DEBATE ON PADDING A
RESUME!
Team Clinton gets more desperate by the day. Is there no limit to the size of her ego that she would decimate the democratic party?? Though the chances are slim, if she steals the nomination, McCain wins. I, myself, will vote for him rather than her.
So there! The truth matters, Ms. I ran under combat fire and I brokered peace.
sorry hillary - I guess its back to the drawing board for you... think of something else hunny...
I am sick of this trivial and desperate tactics from the arrogant Clinton Campaigners. I thought they were highly educated lawyers to know there is a thin line between a senior lecturer and a professor. And so freaking what if he was one and not the other? Humble yourselves dudes, please humble yourselves. Pride comes before fall.
Yet another lie told by the Clinton crew. Does making the competition look bad make you look better?
well Billery,,details DO matter,,kinda like ducking sniper bullets right.
Clinton tries and tries! all her attacks are dead ends! I LOVE IT! Obama is truly a deity!
WE KNOW FOR CERTAIN WARHILLIE WAS NEITHER AT ANY TIME.
Every dirty little trick Hillary tries to pull off seems to BACKFIRE! Really this is childish from the Clinton campaign, grow up!
Teach me Senator Obama. Fight the good fight
Wow...so clinton makes a "Mis-statement" on her "sniper trip" and they go after obama's educational record and wither he was a professor or not???? how childish is that? LOL and then she gets smacked in the face by the university for her campaign making a "Mis-statement" on obama's educational role....SHAME. lol
HRC campaign can't get their facts straight. Grasping at straws, throwing sinks......makes them look deranged on some level.
I hope she wins the nomination as it will be so easy for McCain in the Fall.
McCain 08
It's over Hillary... give it up. You are embarressing yourself now.
Everyone must ask themself a simple question, why is it that Hillary Clinton's sending out her camp to try to dis out garbage on Obama.
It hard for the Clinton's to be honest, truthful, and do what best for America they are selfish.
I truly understand that their in debt and owe a lot of big wigs but simply thing they need to take on a second job to pay them back. But, not at the expense of the American people.
Can the New Media just really investgate the Clinton's Business oversea. with Dubai Port World and settle the romur that Bill Clinton got paid..... And that how Hillary loan herself the $ 5 Million dollars?
It must be noted that numerous officials at the University of Chicago, including the President and others who hold high offices, have contributed maximum donations to the Obama campaign. They should come to his aid! Take from it what you will but this important fact should be reported on with this story although it is not surprising CNN, excuse me it is now ONN (Obama News Network, positive Obama spin 24/7), leaves out this important detail.
In OBAMA we TRUST!
Great News !
Go Obama 08 !
whether he was a professor or not it does not matter. What matters is Barack is a very smart man, who happens to have a Ph.D. in law, this something Senator Clinton cannot say about herself. I just can't think of why people think that Obama has no experience when he not only has a Ph.D. and has thought in the University of Chicago, he has been a civil right lawyer and has been a legislator longer than Senator Clinton, don't forget that not only has he served in the US Senate but also in the Illinois Senate. So the fact that he was a senior lecturer should be viewed as a plus not as a negative which is how Senator Clinton wants us to see it as.
As a Brit and an external but fascinated observer to this Democratic contest I am constantly amazed at the lengths both camps (but mainly Clinton) are going to try to discredit their opponent – the damage that this can cause to the Democratic cause in the eyes of the voting public leading up to the Presidential Election will be devestating and could kill their campaign both from a financial and a popular vote perspective – McCain must be loving this especially as I see that he has just laucnhed his first presidential campaign advert – he has no diversions and can concentrate on taking the country with him.
From an international perspective I would love to see Obama come home as I think he will bring a totally new perception of US politics to the rest of the world.
Wow, the Clinton camp lying again. What a surprise...
Embellishment at the least.
Hillary's campaign is sad. Please urge her to give it up. She is making herself look very, very, very bad.
The lying resume fudger can't even lie about her opponent's resume without get caught. She's so pathetic. I can't understand how anyone an be so dumb as to want her as their president.
Hillary good try but as you see the university says he was a professor and being I work at a university myself, Senior lecturers who teach credited courses are considered to be professors. He did not misspeak like you often do.
Donner
do the clintons see how ridiculous they are beginning to look ? they are like the bully in the school yard, picking on anyone, making things up, telling tales, crying......anything to get their own way. And i say that in the plural because anyone who thinks they are only getting Hillary is mistaken, the entire disfunctional family will be on the ticket,.
Give it a rest Hillary! Stop trying to tear this guy down!
I'm sure she was trying to deflect the light away from her bogus military experience while landing under "sniper fire" in Bosnia.
Give me a break. Hillary needs to bow out now.
There we go ha ha! Clinton thought this was going to beat her Bosnia lies. HE WAS A SENIOR LECTURER ASLO REFERRED TO AS A 'PROFESSOR'. Next!
One more failed attempt from Clinton campaign to bring down Obama.
Thanks to the university of chicago for going beyond the call of duty to define the term professor to pin heads, who ignore the monumental problems facing the country to chase after unnecessary smear implements. The continued popularity of Barack in spite of the kitchen sink strategy is further evidence that the voters are fed up with politics as usual and have embraced the message of hope and change.
As a TA with a Master's degree, I'm pleased that I can now refer to myself as a Professor!!! Ha ha. Shame on U of C for defending the label as anyone in academia knows there's a gulf between having a doctorate and/or being a tenured track instructor and being adjunct.
The Clinton campaign....what a joke.
Big deal what about him changing his story on his Pastor Wright again? He touts his judgment yet only now says if Wright hadn't retired he would have left the church?? Well that makes me forget about Wright being on Obama's Campaign Staff. And the fact that for at least the last 7 years he has been saying controversial stuff yet you continued to follow him. Any pastor who has said the hurtful things that Wright has from the pulpit should not be allowed to preach. If you can't keep your political leanings out of your Sermons then don't preach.
Take note HRC, Obama did not 'misspeak'. He doesn't have to exaggerate or lie, he isn't dillusional.
Desperation!
Severe Desperation.
It is getting a little sad. Her campaign tries to dig and dig. Then Hillary is caught lying.
I will not vote for her if she gets the nomination.
She should get out.
Not under sniper fire...not mis-spoken.
there is a big difference in the 2 titles. Obama has a JD and not a PhD. He should not be called a Professor.
surely the Clinton campaign would at least give Obama the chance to say that he "misspoke" when he said he was a professor, after all he says literally millions of words a day. no? hypocrisy at its finest.
HE IS GOOD AT SPEECHES......A LECTURER............
The clinton camp makes me want to vomit. At this point, I can't stand the sight or sound of her.
I have come to expect nothing but dirty tricks, dirty politics, race baiting, manipulation of facts and outright lies from those people. Enough.
I agree with the comments made that she is looking to take down Obama and the party in order to try to force herself upon us.
I'd call it blonde ambition, but let's face it – even that's not real.
Why doesn't someone just put her out of our misery once and for all.
Obama..you are a perfect president...Go for it
If these are the dirt that Hillary camp can come up with on Obama, he should already be in the white house.
Why would a man like this need to embellish accomplishments? Unlike, Sen. Clinton, he does not need to create stories to impress people for votes.
I am very thankful that the school was able to verify his service.
Obama 08!!!!!
Give me a break!
Obama went to two Ivy League schools, spent 20 years in a church with a black liberation ideology, allied himself with JW who not only voiced oral racist rants but put them in the church bulletin and in the church magazine as well. He took his wife and young daughters to this same church.
Obama has a lopsided view of race and of America!
He has nothing to teach but a lot to learn!
He is not electable in 08!
one for Obama, the professor
zero for Clinton, the liar
clinton just sucks....she tries to smear and gets served.
Stupid Clinton Campaign!!! Stupid just get out of the race now before you hurt the party more. Thanks for aiding McCain. Then you cry when Obama start digging up the so much dirt your candidate has with her family.
The Clinton Campaign and Dan Abrahms of MSNBC 'The Verdict' owe Senator Obama an apology for claiming he was fabricating his creditials on this.
Did you ever notice that Clinton supporters really really really want to believe that "all politicians lie"....I think they need to – as the one they support does it daily....(or are they calling that "misspeaking" today?)
As an academician myself, I know that statement from the University of Chicago is true as it is true in many other universities across this country. A senior lecturer who teaches three courses is a professor albeit without tenure or on tenure track. He has presence on campus, must hold office hours if necessary and students take his courses per requisite or as electives knowing he is teaching them. So Hillary has misfired again. Senator Obama has not "embellished" as she has lied about her role in Belfast, her sniper-fire in Bosnia and Chelsea jogging around Central Park on 9/11. Nice try but it did not work. As a parent with a daughter who has a post graduate degree from the University of Chicago I can also attest to the excellent reputation and high quality of instruction from the University of Chicago, This institution does not employ anything but high quality professionals.
Why are the Clintons digging in further and further for dirt, it seems to be backfiring all the time. If one of my lecturers is qualified to teach, upper level courses I call the Professor. Students always refer to them as professor. It does not matter whether Junior snr etc.
So bring out the issues Clinton, not stupid, silly things like professorship vs snr lecture, that is just a title, the fact is that he taught in the University of Chicago.
Please please please HRC and Barack, Its about time you stick to the issues, the past is gone, lets deal with the now (Economy, immigration, health care, Iraq, Uniting American), the issues are endless.
CNN please post!
Professor Obama...President Obama. Sounds great to me!
It's fair to say that the Clintons are grasping at straws here. She lie and go caught.
Oh, so he didn't embelish? So much for equating Obama's professor with Hillary's single-handed salvation of Ireland and her dodging of sniper fire.
That's gotta hurt!
It is ironic but true, the Dems know how to lose, even if everything is for them they find a way to lose...
McCain is a terrible candidate, so many gaffes.... But Bill and Hillary are praising him and denigrading Obama..... How come the DNC allows that? If McCain was praising Hillary and denigrading a fellow Republican (say Huckabee or Romney) he would be in deep trouble. THAT IS WHY REPUBLICANS WIN MR. HOWARD DEAN! They have balls, and it seems you don't. You are afraid of the CLinton's who for their part do not mind in destroying the DNC if the race does not go their way.
People are not stupid and the damage is done. People do not like to vote for whimps, that is why at the end of the day Republicans will win.
Shame on you DNC!
There you go. A good answer to another twist from Clintons
The race for the Democratic nomination is over. There is no way Senator Clinton is going to be able to make up the delegate numbers. This bickering by the Clinton campaign is dragging down everyone. The party needs to unite behind Obama
I CANT BELIEVE HIL AND HER PEOPLE WANTING TO GET ALL DETAIL ORIENTED. SHE SHOULD BE DOGGED ABOUT HER BLATANT LIE ABOUT THE SNIPER SHOOTING. SHE DID SAY AFTER ALL THAT SHE CLEARLY REMEMBERS THE EVENT. NOW IT A DIFFERENT STORY.
right on!
hillary is venomous.
focus on mcbush, mr Obama
ignore the rattler and it cant hurt you
More egg on the Clinton camp's collective face!
There is a prevailing feeling now that anything that comes from the Clinton campaign is less that an honest statement or has been spun so many times it could sustain it's own orbit.
Hillary might have been ducking sniper fire as she made these alligations.
Another attempt at distraction from the Clinton camp lampooned by people that no better...
Good grief she looks more desperate every day!
A lecturer then, and still....nothing more.
HE WAS A PROFESSOR AND HE WILL BE A PRESIDENT.
WARHILLIE CAN ALWAYS BRAG ABOUT HER DISTINGUISHED
MILITARY SERVICE IN BOSNIA. SHE IS COMPLETELY
DISCONNECTED FROM REALITY.
Obama was a professor and Hillary got all her experience as a FISH SLIMER. Who would you rather have running your country, one who educates or one who always smells fishy?
Hillary is making me sick with her disgusting snipes! Details do matter–like the one about her being under sniper fire being a bold-faced lie!
Shows how desperate Hillary Clinton has become...
Just like her comment about his kindergarten "essay." How could a kindergarten student write an essay?
Now she wants to fight on till the bitter end at the convention in August- three months after the last primary!
Take that "Snarky Clinton Campaign" !
When Barack puts his nose up like this picture. Is that his white side or his black side?
So THERE Clinton campaign, take that to your stocking and stuff it!!! Go Obama!!!
. The poster is misleeding. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors
Wow.. Slam Dunk..This is so silly for them to bring about statements without validating them first...I am glad the Law School came forth to clear up this mess. Hill, because you have been called out on your lies, don't go trying to dig up things you "THINK" may be untrue. So not necessary! Like Mr. Dean said, at this point we need to focus on gas prices, the economy and healthcare..Not silly details such as this. Too much wasted energy.
Ha! That's what Hillary gets. Who looks like the fool now Hillary?
Not everyone is such a liar as Hillary.
The Clinton camp must feel pretty silly....oh I'm sorry, I forgot it was silly season!!! Someone didn't research all the details! Nice try though! Hillary is the only LIAR!!!!!!
Being considered a professor does not make one a professor.
Booyaka......In your faces....hahaha...what because he is black he cant possibly have been a professor!!!!!!
What has this got to do with anything except the Clinton camp is making much ado about nothing? ls this their way of excusing Hillary for lying about her tea trip to Bosnia or lreland? Obama is a fine American and an extra-ordinary leader that we need at this time.
Get off his nutz! What is important is our country. Our children, neighborhoods, economy, education and sharing the wealth that The Bush family and republicans are storing up for the winter!!!!!!! called oil.
Stop bumping heads with each other and fight the real liars, crooks, and arrogant republicans.
Look up the word united then add that to our numbers and LET'S FIGHT FOR THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obama wants to be know for his judgment, although that caption has disappeared from the podium of his recent speeches. The "obama-girl" launched him to rock-star status, which he probably enjoys but does that qualify her as a poltical pundit telling Hillary to withdraw? Where is his judgment ? The fires flame. The longer this campaign goes the more he will be burned.
must have taught fiction
Now...about that "sniper fire", brokering peace in Ireland, tax returns, library contributions, Paul trial, etc.
Looks like the Clinton Campaign needs to go back to school.
NOW THE TRUTH IS KNOW, WHAT HAVE THE CLINTON'S TO SAY NOW.
OBAMA "08
If so... why doesn't he support the constitutional right to vote and have your vote be counted?
If so, why is he being so UN American?
Yet more non-news.
So he was the "professor?"
So what???
Even our Hillary Clinton could have become Professor
She JUST chose to be the fighter and go to Bosnia and fight with snipers...
Hillary for Receptionist (to pick up that 3 Am call)
Wow...can you say "egg on their faces"? Seems like it's still silly season. The Clinton camp really needs to focus on the issues at hand and stop spending so much valuable staff time looking up useless and factually wrong information in their ongoing attempt to tarnish the charactor of Sen. Obama.
Ok. Is she serious? The kitchen sink strategy is severely flawed if this is the hardest they can come at him.
Speaking as someone at UC while Obama was teaching there. Yes, he was a professor.
Also speaking as someone who lived in Chicago, the Sun Time is/was/always has been full of it.
Whatever... It's not like he fancied himself running under bullets or anything like that...
Look, Barack is not the embellishing candidate, Hillary is. Don't even try to go there...
Senator Clinton is really stretching to find flaws with her opponent. Perhaps she would like to mention a small detail of her own – that she only moved to Arkansas to marry Bill after she failed the bar exam in Washington D.C.
The Clintons are a complete joke now.
This is just semantics. Ask the students if he was their instructor, lecturer, or professor. Ninety five percent are going to say professor. The nomenclature has to do more with salary ranges and tenure requirements.
I can't wait for all the Clinton nut jobs to compare this to Hillary's blatent LIES about her role in Bosnia and Northern Ireland. There's a HUGE difference.
Of course he was a law professor. The Clinton campaign is grasping at straws, try to inflict damage to Obama wherever and however they can, regardless of what the truth is. The only thing they are accomplishing is further elevating Hillary's "negatives" rating. I know that they have done that for me.
Like those "politics" aren't tainted? Support the hometown boy. Way to go UoC. Your statement carries as much weight with the educated voters as saying what he had for breakfast.
He lied again. He is NOT a professor.
That's funny !!!
The Clinton campaign does strongly think that to succeed in politics all candidates should lie so easily as Hillary does.
All politicians lie as every other person does in general but some of them lie too much that most of people don't trust them anymore, that's unfortunately what happens with Hillary
Sorry, Hillary might have other qualities that Obama doesn't have but he's definitely more trustworthy, that's undeniable !!!
Try something else !!!
By the way, we're still waiting for your earmarks and your latest tax return, your opponent already released both of them, you did not. People do think you're hiding something so don't blame them if they don't trust you, that's the fact!!
I have been a senior lecturer at a state university. The difference between senior lecturer and professor is like the difference between major and colonel in the Army. They are both officers, they both command troops, but a major is obviously not a general.
The Clinton campaign is really grasping for something. It's not like he lied about braving sniper fire, or being a prominent player in brokering peace deals...
Nice try Hillary. You can't remember if you were under "heavy sniper fire" when traveling to Bosnia so you try to go after Obama to show that he's misleading (just like you!). Unfortunatly, you manged to get this wrong as well. I loved your husband as president but really wish you would just go away.
Let's see...
1) "I taught law at a major university. I am a professor, albeit not on tenure-track."
OR
2) "I dodged a hailstorm of bullets and ran screeching, head-down, to shelter as my young daughter ran behind - in a locale too dangerous even for the President of the United States!"
...I think Ill take the law professor.
So the school considers them "professors" does it? The sitting Lecturers should take that statement to court and demand tenure track. The Universtiy of Chicago would say anything to help Obama. What, like it wouldnt be good press to be able to say that a President was a "Professor" there. Please folks, use some common sense. A professor is a professor a lecturer a lecturer. Thus the seperate titles.
This is why McCain needs to win. Democrats lie.
Today, the University of Chicago released the following statement:
"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."
This is so silly! He was a professor/lecturer ok! I would prefer that than i ran from sniper fire!
OBAMA IS PADDING HIS RESUME?
Hmmmm. What else is he doing?
I'm sick of it all. I'm out! No Hillary. No Obama. McCain in 2008.
Obama the Professor for President....lord have mercy...GO OBAMA '08
Cindy, No, he just told a few fibs about not hearing the hate from his mentor and how close he was really was to Renkzo.