The day after the Democrats ended their convention in Denver, the University of Denver Sturm College of Law hosted a conference entitled "Obama Phenomena: Facets of a Historic Campaign." Among my favorite seminar topics of the day were "Examining Our Post-Racial Selves: Obama as a Balm for What Ails Us"; "Race and the Obama Phenomenon: Change We Can Build On"; and "Hating Hillary, Baiting Barack: Racism, Misogyny and Homophobia in Campaign Paraphernalia" by Jane Caputi, a professor of "Women's Studies and Communication" at Florida Atlantic University. For secularists worried about Obama's lip service to his Christian religious beliefs, there was "Barack Obama and the Search for a Usable Religion: The Promise and Peril of Relevant Faith in Liberal Democracy." "Usable religion" and "relevant faith": I wonder what those might be?
I'll bet that entire day was a love fest not only for Obama but for a host of left-wing academic theories, and that it made the DNC proud that it chose Denver for its convention site. The "beauty part" is that you received continuing legal education credit for attending. Sorry I missed it.
Of course, now that Sarah Palin's been chosen as the Republican's vice presidential candidate, and that Obama has chosen to run against her rather than McCain, I expect shortly to receive from the same institution of higher learning notice of another seminar devoted to the "facets" of Ms. Palin's "historic campaign." What are the odds?
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