Missing the larger point?
So is he a Senior Lecturer? Professor (large P) or professor (small p)? Here’s my take, when I went through college and graduate. I always referred to whomever taught my classes as "professor." I never referred to anyone as "Lecturer Obama." These finer points about his actual title is really for division of labor and disbursement of benefits purposes with university administrators. Furthermore, If University of Chicago considers him a professor then that is the FINAL word.
Lost in this silly controversy, however, is the fact that Obama is quite the intellectual HEAVYWEIGHT! Given that the Bush Administration has continuously raped and pillaged the U.S. Constitution for the last eight years, I find it comforting that we have a Constitutional Law professor (small p) running for president.
If the very presitigious University of Chicago Law School (a Top 10 law school) has given him several offers over the years of full tenure-track professorships, that says ALOT about Obama.
Also...having been through law school myself I can tell you that Constitutional Law classes are usually reserved for higher profile tenured professors. It's interesting that an elite law school allowed him to teach Con-Law back in the mid ‘90s when he was still relatively an inexperienced lawyer fresh out of school. Being President of the Harvard Law Review probably had alot to do with that.
Having read his books and listened to the speeches he mostly writes, and given who we have as our president right now, I find very comforting that someone of his intellectual capacity has a better then even shot at making it to the White House. NOW THAT’s CHANGE!