re: #299 iossarian

This whole “Obama not a professor” story is a bit like the people who complain on higher education blogs about MD’s referring to themselves as “Dr. So-and-so”.

In a very narrow technical sense they are correct but it’s really just pedantry.

My GP is Dr. Mike and Obama was a professor at U of C.

They’re not even correct in a technical sense. They’re just lying. The only truth is that he wasn’t called professor. He still was a professor. It’s like saying a Master Sergeant and a First Sergeant aren’t both E-8s.