Obamarama

I was browsing the whitehouse.gov site (there's nothing to watch on tv - Sunday, February 1st, 3:00? Nothin'.) when something struck me - if Obama was a professor, then he must have a profile on ratemyprofessor.

I expected his profile to be full of Obama-Girls and boys, I expected 500 pages of comments.

Instead, I found this: Professor Obama's ratemyprof rating page.

It's an interesting angle on a fairly unexamined aspect of Obama's career. What was Obama like as a University of Chicago law professor? While it's a bit of a stretch, how he treated his students could be a good indicator of how he'll treat his constituents.

Apparently, he was "GREAT!!!!", and apparently he was "very helpful in office hours". But that's it. Two comments for Prof. Obama.

His final was a joke, but otherwise Obama seems to have done alright.

His final score:

Easiness: 3.0
Average Helpfulness: 5.0
Average Clarity: 4.0
Overall Quality: 4.5
(He lost some clarity marks because some students felt he was making up for a lack of content with an excess of rhetoric.)

Full comment reads: "he's so easy and lenient. lots of hw though but it's not that hard. the final is a joke. very helpful in office hours"