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Are Law Professors Giving Senator Obama a Bad Name?

By propertyprof

This morning I've been listening to Fox's interview with Senator Obama.  Dig this from Chris Wallace (transcript here):

WALLACE:  But some observers, and some liberal observers say is that part of your problem is you come off as a former law professor who talks about transforming politics when the lunch bucket crowd really wants to know what you?re going to do for them.  Bob Herbert, columnist for the ?New York Times?, [who] happens to be a black man, says that Hillary Clinton seems tougher than you do.

How about that!  Makes me want to look into some more on public attitudes towards law professors.  And, perhaps even more importantly, do we spend a lot of time talking about transformative politics?  Not the law professors I know--though every once in a while, at the end of a book, some of us talk about the future (and even think it's one in which race plays a smaller role than it does today).

Alfred Brophy

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on April 27, 2008 (boomark / email).