{"id":205,"date":"2013-11-15T04:22:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T04:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www3.law.harvard.edu\/orgs\/brazil\/?p=205"},"modified":"2013-11-15T04:24:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T04:24:40","slug":"obamas-law-professor-on-his-failures-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/brazil\/2013\/11\/15\/obamas-law-professor-on-his-failures-as-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s law professor on his failures as president"},"content":{"rendered":"

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14 November 2013<\/strong>\u00a0Last updated at 09:19 GMT<\/p>\n

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Brazilian Roberto Unger is a leading political philosopher and an advocate of progressive politics.<\/p>\n

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He has taught at Harvard Law School for about 40 years and US President Barack Obama was one of his students in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

Asked why he moved from welcoming Obama’s election in 2008 to calling him a “disaster” for the Democratic party, Mr Unger told HARDtalk the president had failed to “come up with a sequel to Roosevelt’s New Deal” of the 1930s.<\/p>\n

“There is no project in the United States responsive to the needs and aspirations of the broad working class majority of the country,” said Mr Unger.<\/p>\n

“Obama and his collaborators have mistaken conformism for realism,” he added.<\/p>\n

You can watch the full interview on BBC World News on Thursday 14 November at 09:30, 16:30 and 21:30 GMT and on Friday 15 November on the BBC News Channel at 04:30 GMT.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source: BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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