Nerd Alert: Obama Goes Harvard for Solicitor General

Well look at President-elect Smarty Pants, Barack Obama. First he goes an appoints a Harvard Nerd, Larry Summers, as his chief White House economic advisor. Now he's got another dweeb in the pipeline, in the form of Elena Kagen, who he wants to nominate as solictor general.

No wait, excuse us... whom he wants to nominate as solicitor general. Happy, nerds?

Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan is a leading candidate to be President-elect Barack Obama's representative at the US Supreme Court, Bloomberg is reporting this afternoon.

Bloomberg, quoting "people familiar with the selection process," says Kagan, the first female dean at Harvard law school, and former Stanford Law School Dean Kathleen Sullivan are the two top contenders for solicitor general, a post that might be a step toward a seat on the Supreme Court itself...

Kagan, who has never argued a Supreme Court case, has a long-standing connection to Obama. The two worked on the University of Chicago Law School faculty at the same time during the 1990s.

Okay, wait a minute. We just saw not one, not four, but three nerd schools referenced in that report. So what gives?

Didn't Obama learn from our current president that the solicitor general is supposed to be a partisan hack from the private sector? (Well, not so much the current solicitor general, who landed the job in the Alberto Gonzalez fallout.)

So cut the elitism, Barack. Yes, we know that you studied law at Harvard and taught it at Chicago, so now you appoint someone with the same background.

But if, like the current president, you had been a Man of the People, you would have gone to... Yale and Harvard, and staffed the Supreme Court with appointments from... um... Yale and Harvard.

Boo-ya!