Obama's Teaching Career

It's pretty hard to paint oneself as a "professor of constitutional law" when one refused to do the work to earn that title.

He was gunning for greater things anyway than toiling away for some Friedmanite university:

Mr. Obama, now the junior senator from Illinois and the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, spent 12 years at the University of Chicago Law School. Most aspiring politicians do not dwell in the halls of academia, and few promising young legal thinkers toil in state legislatures. Mr. Obama planted a foot in each, splitting his weeks between an elite law school and the far less rarefied atmosphere of the Illinois Senate.

He was a jack of all trades and master at none.

Still, he was garnering Kool-Aid drinkers even then:

As his reputation for frank, exciting discussion spread, enrollment in his classes swelled. Most scores on his teaching evaluations were positive to superlative. Some students started referring to themselves as his groupies. (Mr. Obama, in turn, could play the star. In what even some fans saw as self-absorption, Mr. Obama’s hypothetical cases occasionally featured himself. “Take Barack Obama, there’s a good-looking guy,” he would introduce a twisty legal case.)

Teaching "voting rights" classes is surely ironical in retrospect, for Obama's campaign has been all about deception, dirt, and fraud.