Who Is Obama's Harvard Prof and Why Does He Not Want Him Reelected?
Vocal Minority ^ | 6/18/12 | EricTheRed
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So we finally hear from a professor who had President Hope&Change as a student ... and he doesn't want him re-elected. [h/t Drudge]:
Obama’s Harvard law professor says ‘President MUST be defeated in 2012’ (even though he’s the man Barack used to have on speed dial)
•Roberto Unger, 65, is respected author and Brazilian politician
•Taught Obama about ‘reinventing democracy’ at Harvard Law School
•Professor was an adviser during the 2008 election campaign
By [U.K.] DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 17:17 EST, 17 June 2012 | UPDATED: 07:06 EST, 18 June 2012
A former professor of Barack Obama has turned against his one-time student and publicly urged voters not to re-elect him.
Roberto Unger posted a video on YouTube detailing the reasons why he believes the President does not deserve a second term in the White House.
Mr Unger, a prominent Brazilian politician and an adviser to Obama in 2008, said: ’President Obama must be defeated in the coming election. He has failed to advance the progressive cause in the United States.’
The 65-year-old academic was in frequent contact with Mr Obama on his Blackberry throughout the last election campaign but has since decided that he no longer agreed with the President’s decisions.
His list of complaints against the President is a long one in the video entitled ‘Beyond Obama’.
The esteemed philosopher is scathing of Mr Obama’s plans to salvage America’s ailing economy, saying that his policy solely consists of ‘financial confidence and food stamps’.
He adds: ’He has spent trillions of dollars to rescue the moneyed interests and left workers and homeowners to their own devices.’
The politician admits that if Republican candidate Mitt Romney wins the election ‘there will be a cost... in judicial and administrative appointments’.
Now, conservatives might be giddy about this news story: Yay, one of Obama’s own wants him out of office! But not so fast: Unger appears to be rejecting Obama because he hasn’t fundamentally changed the Unites States fast and substantively enough. Perusing his lectures, you will even discover he wasn’t a fan at all of the stimulus plan.
That’s the first thing that bothers me about his revelation. The second is that one is that this article appeared not in an American news source, but in the U.K.
Unger doesn’t hide the fact that he is an unabashed Leftist. His website conveniently has PDF scans of several of his published works.
Obama was Unger’s student in the late 1980’s. It can be assumed, therefore, he was exposed to Unger’s 1987 book, “Social Theory: Its Situation and Task”. In it are sections devoted to Marxism. In Unger’s defense, a quick scan of this section doesn’t reveal a glowing review of Marxism or of nations’ implementation of it.
This book, as well as another 1987 books “False Necessity” (republished in 2002) and “Plasticity into Power” are quite heavy academic reading. It is hard to tell from skimming certain chapters whether Unger overtly advocates Marxism/socialism over capitalism but he makes definitely clear that he is for societal change through evolutionary politics.
He also makes it clear that the direction for this change is necessarily and undoubtedly leftward, as explained in detail in his 1998 books “Democracy Realized: A Progressive Alternative” and “The Left Alternative.” In other words, in what would certainly make for lively classroom discussions, Unger puts forth ideas not for “stay the course” Leftism but a new, improved, evolved, better-faster-stronger (cue the Bionic Man music) Leftism.
This is the message he wanted to convey to his students and, likely, as an adviser to candidate Obama, his dream for an Obama presidency.
As can be seen from the statements in the Daily Mail article, Unger is disappointed in Obama because he did not succeed in implementing that desired societal change.
Not for lack of trying, Prof. Unger! Unfortunately for you, as well as for Obama who was elected president under false pretenses, the American people and conservative opponents in Congress just had something to say about your ideas for fundamentally changing this nation.
