January 29, 2008

The Constitution According to Akhil Amar - Class 3

Class 3 (Chapter 3)

Note that classes after the first have consisted predominantly of Amar responding to students' mandatory discussion board posts, which need not be about the week's reading. Hence the disjointedness of my notes.

Sample quote from today's class: "People look at Barack Obama and ask whether he's Lincoln, JFK, Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy...these are all very good comparisons. They look at Hillary and ask, 'Is she Nixon?'" I guess Amar supports Hillary.

2 comments:

James said...

Go ahead, steal my joke, I don't mind.

Alan said...

As if it didn't independently occur to me, a noted Robot Nixon supporter who sent you the quote with the subject line "Aroo~!"

That said, I would've stolen it.