I've figured out the hostility to the President, and its not "Obama Derangement Syndrome"...

[Divernan]

96. O was NEVER a Harvard professor, nor a constitutional law scholar.

He was a Harvard law school student/graduate, not a Harvard professor. As to the oft touted claim of "constitutional law scholar" He was NEVER a constitutional law professor or SCHOLAR, never published a scholarly paper, and wasn't on tenure track. If one is hired to teach the introductory, basic course on constitutional law, one could fairly describe oneself as a constitutional law professor. But to be a constitutional law scholar, one has to not only teach the ENTIRE Constitution, but also publish learned papers in professional journals and participate in law school conferences on constitutional law. Obama did neither. Constitutional law is such a basic part of the law school curriculum that it is a required class, and is only taught by a faculty member in the tenure stream - never by an "instructor". Obama was hired part-time by the University of Chicago law school to teach classes related to race.

For 12 years, Obama was a part-time lecturer - that's the lowest level of teacher at any law school or university - below Full, Assistant, Associate, Adjunct and or Visiting Professors - at the private, conservative, elitist, University of Chicago. Lecturers are not on a tenure track. He never taught the basic, traditional course in Constitutional Law, required of all first year law students, and covered in detail in state bar examinations. He was a part-time instructor at that: "Mr. Obama was working two other jobs, after all, in the State Senate and at a civil rights law firm." The Chicago law faculty is full of intellectually fiery friendships that burn across ideological lines. Three times a week, faculty do combat over lunch at a special round table in the university’s faculty club, and they share and defend their research in workshop discussions. Mr. Obama rarely attended, even when he was in town.. . . While most colleagues published by the pound, he never completed a single work of legal scholarship. . . .Nor could his views be gleaned from scholarship; Mr. Obama has never published any."

At the school, Mr. Obama taught a total of three courses, ascending over the years from lecturer to senior lecturer. His most traditional course was in the narrow constitutional area of (1) DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION of constitutional law. His (2) VOTING RIGHTS class traced the evolution of election law, from the disenfranchisement of blacks to contemporary debates over districting and campaign finance. His most original course, a historical and political seminar as much as a legal one, was on (3)RACISM AND LAW. Mr. Obama had other business on his mind, embarking on five political races during his 12 years at the school.
Note that the school had almost no black faculty members, a special embarrassment given its location on the South Side. Its sleek halls bordered a neighborhood crumbling with poverty and neglect. In his 2000 Congressional primary race, Representative Bobby L. Rush, a former Black Panther running for re-election, successfully used Mr. Obama’s ties to the school to label him an egghead and an elitist and to defeat him.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/us/politics/30law.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Very interesting article on his years as a part-time instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He was a popular teacher, but refused to intellectually engage with his fellow faculty. One sentence particularly sticks with me as showing that even at the beginning of his political career, he identified his future success and power as dependent upon wealthy whites. This came after his first political race wherein he was defeated 2 to 1 by black voters when he chose to primary a black Congressman.
"Before he helped redraw his own State Senate district, making it whiter and wealthier, he taught districting as a racially fraught study in how power is secured."

For those not familiar with Obama's first foray into politics, it was a primary race for the U.S. Congress. His opponent:
Bobby Lee Rush (born November 23, 1946) is the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 1st congressional district, serving since 1993. The district is located principally on the South Side of Chicago with its population percentage being 65% African-American, higher than any other congressional district in the nation.

A member of the Democratic Party, he holds the distinction of being the only person to defeat President Barack Obama in an election, as he did in the 2000 Democratic primary for Illinois' 1st congressional district. He continues to serve as Congressman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Rush
http://rush.house.gov/about-me/biography