Do you remember the article on Obama's time as Harvard Law Review Pres?

[LeftyAndProud60]

If I remember right, all of his supporters became unhappy w/ him because he tried too hard to woo the conservatives. Sound familiar? Should have been a sign.

[pnorman]

1. Can you provide enough information so that we can Google to that specific article?

Thanks greatly in advance.

[LeftyAndProud60]

2. That's why I was asking if anyone remembered. I just remember thinking that it didn't sound good for

things to come.

[pnorman]

3. I thought as much! (sigh!)

n/t

[onenote]

4. if you can find an article saying "all of his supporters" were unhappy with him

I'll eat my hat.

Oh, and here is a link to the article that I think you were looking for. And no, it doesn't say his supporters turned on him. In fact, it suggests that he tenure as President of the Law Review was marked by an absence of conflict.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080623/pl_politico/11257

[LeftyAndProud60]

5. That's not the article. NT

[LeftyAndProud60]

6. This looks like it. It wasn't all, but enough of his supporters

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2008/09/barack-obama-ha.html

[CakeGrrl]

8. Specifically, the African-American students who figured he would help elevate them once

he made good.

And the bottom-line assessment: He would not sacrifice the meritocracy, the institution or his role as its president, to advance a racial agenda, as paraphrased by the link in the post following yours.

Substitute "Progressives" for "African-Americans". And? He's doing something similar and getting a similar reaction.

But not because of some Manchurian ulterior motive or psychological disorder, as is all the rage to theorize on DU lately.

This is not some incriminating "gotcha". There is no allusion to some mental deficiency on Obama's part; only an evenhandedness that maddens some of those around him.

[demwing]

13. "His election was significant at the time, but now it's meaningless

because he's becoming just like all the others (in the Establishment)."

interesting quote...

[LeftyAndProud60]

14. LOL. It was filled w/ quotes that could relate to the present. NT

[pnorman]

9. I assume that you mean this:

Yet some of Obama's peers question the motives of this second-year law student. They find it puzzling that despite Obama's openly progressive views on social issues, he has also won support from staunch conservatives. Ironically, he has come under the most criticism from fellow black students for being too conciliatory toward conservatives and not choosing more blacks to other top positions on the law review.

"He's willing to talk to them (the conservatives) and he has a grasp of where they are coming from, which is something a lot of blacks don't have and don't care to have," said Christine Lee, a second-year law student who is black. "His election was significant at the time, but now it's meaningless because he's becoming just like all the others (in the Establishment)."

Although some question what personal goals motivate Obama, his interest in social issues is deeply grounded.

Putting aside for the moment the "school of minnow" behavior that seem to characterize many of the Concern Trolls here, that quality may in the LONG RUN, be a successful approach. Demonizing the perceived enemy may make some political sense, when it's a small minority. But is it, other than here on DU? About 25% of the voters are knee-jerk Teabaggers, and not worthy of courting. But the rest? Does anyone here feels that last month's mid-term would have been a lot more favorable had only all of the candidates been more like Kucinich (Or Feingold)? Really?

[zalinda]

10. I know that Alan Grayson was the #1 target of the Republicans

The spent untold millions of dollars to unseat him and the Democratic party turned their back on him, giving him no help at all.

zalinda

[ProSense]

11. No, they spent a record $65 million demonizing Pelosi

Grayson was targeted but the GOP spent about $1.1 million in his district

They spent about $1.4 million to defeat Paul Kanjorski in PA and $2.4 million to defeat John Boccieri in OH.

source

[Hello_Kitty]

15. That's the GOP, not all the corporate money that flooded his district.

The Chamber of Commerce took a special interest in that race.

[highplainsdem]

7. More on that period of his life:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/choice2008/obama/harvard.html

[Catherina]

12. Which sheds a new light on why Obama had his records sealed

his Columbia thesis on "Soviet Nuclear Disarmament" would be interesting to read and compare to his actions in the White House.

Obama’s Account of New York Years Often Differs From What Others Say

Published: October 30, 2007

Barack Obama does not say much about his years in New York City. The time he spent as an undergraduate at Columbia College and then working in Manhattan in the early 1980s surfaces only fleetingly in his memoir. In the book, he casts himself as a solitary wanderer in the metropolis, the outsider searching for a way to “make myself of some use.”

He tells of underheated sublets, a night spent in an alley, a dead neighbor on the landing. From their fire escape, he and an unnamed roommate watch “white people from the better neighborhoods” bring their dogs to defecate on the block. He takes a job in an unidentified “consulting house to multinational corporations,” where he is “a spy behind enemy lines,” startled to find himself with a secretary, a suit and money in the bank.

He barely mentions Columbia, training ground for the elite, where he transferred in his junior year, majoring in political science and international relations and writing his thesis on Soviet nuclear disarmament. He dismisses in one sentence his first community organizing job — work he went on to do in Chicago — though a former supervisor remembers him as “a star performer.”

...

Some say he has taken some literary license in the telling of his story. Dan Armstrong, who worked with Mr. Obama at Business International Corporation in New York in 1984 and has deconstructed Mr. Obama’s account of the job on his blog, analyzethis.net, wrote: “All of Barack’s embellishment serves a larger narrative purpose: to retell the story of the Christ’s temptation. The young, idealistic, would-be community organizer gets a nice suit, joins a consulting house, starts hanging out with investment bankers, and barely escapes moving into the big mansion with the white folks.”

...

He said he was somewhat involved with the Black Student Organization and anti-apartheid activities, though, in recent interviews, several prominent student leaders said they did not remember his playing a role.

...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/us/politics/30obama.html?_r=1