Letters to the Editor
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Not important!
You academic purists really crack me up with your continued insistence that Obama is trying to spread himself with glory. Here's a clue for you: No One Cares! In your little world, such things do matter, but out in the real world, here's how the conversation will run 98 percent of the time:
"It says here that Barack Obama was a Senior Lecturer at a University."
"What's a Senior Lecturer?"
"Well, he's like a Professor. He teaches classes."
"So he's a Professor, then. Why don't they just call him that?"
And that's just the way it is. People don't have time. They're going to reduce it to the simplest term they can. The difference is important to you, working your way up ever so slowly through the rungs of academia, but out in the world, no one has the time.
I live in a University town, and have many friends at all levels of titledom. They are all just "Professor" to me. I can't keep them all straight, and in the long run I don't think, for my purposes, that it really matters.
As I said before, McCain is now running around talking idiocy about Iraq, Iran, the Middle East, and the urgent need for more of the same. McCain's Iran/Al-Qaeda goof is important. This lecturer/professor bullshit is, well, bullshit.
I want to see the Democratic candidates countering McCain. Instead, Clinton is keeping everything mired down at this baby talk level.
McCain! Hillary, he's the one. He's the enemy. He's the one who will deliver the killing blow to this country. McCain. McCain. McCain. Let me hear you say it.