PII Luncheon hosted Dr. Mark Alexander, Professor of Law at Seton Hall University, on Monday January 25, 2010 at 1:00 PM. Dr. Alexander talked about One Year of Obama’s Presidency.
Home made Turkish food was served.
Dr. Mark Alexander
Mark Alexander is a law professor at Seton Hall University, specializing in Constitutional Law and the intersection of Law and Politics. Professor Alexander writes and teaches in the areas of Constitutional Law, Law & Politics, Criminal Procedure, and The First Amendment. His scholarship focuses on the intersection of law, politics and government and on free speech issues.
Alexander is active in politics and government: he was Senior Advisor to Barack Obama, having worked on the Obama presidential campaign since January 2007. As Policy Director, he developed Senator Obama’s signature policies, built a network of policy experts and provided overall strategic guidance. Alexander also served as New Jersey State Director in the primaries, running all operations in his home state.
On Monday January 25th, 2010 lunchoen the IDC hosted Dr. Mark Alexander, it was a beautiful Lunch with a good dissucion on Obama’s one year evaluation as president.
Dr. Alexander talked about how people are scared of change, and how they fear people that are different; for example President Obama is an open person, not many is used to that. When President Obama talked before the parliament in Turkey one of the things he said was “The United states is not and will not be at war with Islam’. Fear cold be a big motivator in a lot of bad ways. He also talked about the President’s performance in economic issues. He believes the economy is in deep and cannot be fixed overnight. He appreciates the President’s commitment on Health care reform, he concluded that it is too early to say if the President will be succesfull in just a year.