"'One of Renegade's law school classmates recalled his legendary pretentiousness:'"
"When I met Barack Obama, in our first year of law school, he had already put on his big-time politician act. He just didn’t quite have it polished, and he hadn’t figured out that he needed charm and humor to round out the confidence and intelligence. One of our classmates once famously noted that you could judge just how pretentious someone’s remarks in class were by how high they ranked onthe “Obamanometer,”a term that lasted far longer than our time at law school. Obama didn’t just share in class - he pontificated. He knew better than everyone else in the room, including the teachers. Or maybe even he knew he didn’t know, but knew that the leader of the free world had to be able to convince others that he did. Looking back now I can see that he had already decided that he was a future president, and he was working hard at filling that suit."
Jackie [Fuchs] Fox was a member of the band The Runaways before resuming her education and eventually becoming an entertainment industry attorney.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-barack-obama-reminds_b_121621
[09/26/2008]