>" Professor Matthew J. Franck, Bench Memo titled "Re: Obama the Titan, or the Cipher," National Review Online, February 12, 2008: "In my thoughts...on the titanic constitutional-law career of Barack Obama, I presumed that in his time as president of the student-edited Harvard Law Review, he'd have published some unsigned notes, which for that reason don't show up in database records as authored by him. Now I hear from a well-placed source that Obama is remembered by his contemporaries as having written nothing at all for the HLR during his time working on its student editorial staff. That is . . . unusual."
It sure is!
It suggests to me that Barack was elected president of the Harvard Law Review for "purely" political purposes, as an affirmative action/political correctness candidate, not for the usual reason: recognition of great research and writing manifested in work proudly published in the law review.
As an editor of the St. John's Law Review who was selected in one year and helped select the next, I fully concur with professor Franck that the selection of anyone to be editor, much less editor-in-chief (whom the Harvard Law Review calls president) is unusual.
It's highly unusual."<
