Obama's Harvard law professor says 'President MUST be defeated in
2012' (even though he's the man Barack used to have on speed dial)

Roberto Unger, 65, is respected author and Brazilian politician

Taught Obama about 'reinventing democracy' at Harvard Law School

Professor was an adviser during the 2008 election campaign

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By Daily Mail Reporter

A former professor of Barack Obama has turned against his one-time student and publicly urged voters not to re-elect him.

Roberto Unger posted a video on YouTube detailing the reasons why he believes
the President does not deserve a second term in the White House.
Mr Unger, a prominent Brazilian politician and an adviser to Obama in 2008, said: 'President Obama must be defeated in the coming election. He has failed to advance the progressive
cause in the United States.'The 65-year-old academic was in
frequent contact with Mr Obama on his Blackberry throughout the last
election campaign but has since decided that he no longer agreed with
the President's decisions.
His list of complaints against the President is a long one in the video entitled 'Beyond Obama'.

The esteemed philosopher is scathing of Mr Obama's plans to salvage
America's ailing economy, saying that his policy solely consists of
'financial confidence and food stamps'.
He adds: 'He has spent trillions of dollars to rescue the moneyed interests and left workers and homeowners to their own devices.'

The politician admits that if Republican candidate Mitt Romney wins
the election 'there will be a cost... in judicial and administrative
appointments'.However his most barbed remarks he reserves for the Democrat leader saying that Mr Obama has 'evoked a politics of handholding, but no one changes the world without a struggle'.

His summary of the past four years is
equally scathing: 'Give the bond markets what they want, bail out the
reckless so long as they are also rich, use fiscal and monetary stimulus
to make up for the absence of any consequential broadening of economic
and educational opportunity, sweeten the pill of disempowerment with a
touch of tax fairness, even though the effect of any such tax reform is
sure to be modest.'http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2160715/Obamas-Harvard-law-professor-Roberto-Unger-says-defeated-2012.html

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