text: 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 
   
   
   
   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.' 
   
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   Scathing: Obama's former professor Roberto Unger said that he had 'failed' the United States and should not be re-elected 
   
   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'. 
   
   Delete! The President regularly talked to Unger during his 2008 campaign... this is no longer likely to be the case 
   
   Taking a shot: Roberto Unger criticised President Obama after being a long time supporter 
   
   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.' 
   
   
   
   Making enemies: Obama has lost a respected adviser Roberto Unger 
   
   Most of Mr Unger's comments seem to be politically to the left of Mr Obama, but he insists that the Republicans would be no more destructive than the Democrats as 'the risk of military adventurism' would remain the same. 
   
   And some would doubtless strike a chord with the President's GOP opponents, including the academic's attacks on Mr Obama's efforts to reform healthcare. 
   
   Mr Unger argues: 'He has subordinated the broadening of economic and educational opportunity to the important but secondary issue of access to health care in the mistaken belief that he would be spared a fight.' 
   
   He also suggests that, despite their fierce rivalry, the Democrats' agenda is little different to that of the Republicans, saying the party aims 'to put a human face on the programme of its adversaries'. 
   
   The professor concludes his video by saying: 'Only a political reversal can allow the voice of democratic prophecy to speak once again in American life.' 
   
   Mr Unger is a renowned politician in his native Brazil. He has twice has run for president of Brazil and has served as Minister of Strategic Affairs. 
   
   Unger was one of the founding members of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party and drafted its founding manifesto. 
   
   
   
   He has also advised on politics throughout Latin America. 
   
   Model student: Obama was taught by Unger when he attended Harvard Law School in 1988 The professor is a respected author having published dozens of books on economics, philosophy and politics. 
   
   In philosophy, his arguments are said to focus on some the greatest problems of the human existence. 
   
   The video, which was posted three weeks ago, has been viewed 22,000 times. 
   
   Mr Unger has taught at Harvard Law since 1976. 
   
   Obama studied jurisprudence and reinventing democracy with the professor. 
   
   The President attended Harvard Law School in 1988 and was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year. 
   
   Last week Obama announced that young immigrants who were brought into the U.S. illegally will no longer be deported. The Obama administration said the policy change announced on Friday will affect as many as 800,000 qualified immigrants who have lived in fear of deportation. The President also came in for sharp criticism last week after he combined fundraising events with an official event - and charged the bill to the taxpayer. 
   
   Obama raised a total of $4.5million at the fundraisers, one at Sex and the City actress Sarah Jessica Parker's house and the other at the five-star Plaza Hotel. However, the President's re-election campaign will not have to pay the full cost of his jaunt to the Big Apple, because he scheduled a short visit to the World Trade Center site. ||||| 3239007 
   
   Harvard Law School professor Roberto Unger, who taught President Barack Obama classes such as Jurisprudence and Reinventing Democracy, said last month in a little-publicized video that his former student has betrayed liberals and should lose the presidency in November. 
   
   “President Obama must be defeated in the coming election,” Unger said in a sit-down video posted to his YouTube account in May, which also attacked the Republican party. 
   
   “If [The Republicans] had their way, inequality would be even greater than it is now,” Unger said, before acknowledging that a Romney win would lead to some undesirable “judicial and administrative appointments.” 
   
   But those costs, to Unger, pale in comparison to the risks of an Obama second term. 
   
   “The Democratic Party has no new direction. … [Obama] has failed to advance the progressive cause,” Unger said. “He has spent trillions of dollars to rescue the moneyed interests and left workers and homeowners to their own devices.” 
   
   Then, gripping his chair tightly as if to strap in for an earthquake of truth-telling, Unger proceeded to unleash a series of one-liners against Obama. 
   
   “He has subordinated the broadening of economic and educational opportunity to the important but secondary issue of access to healthcare. … He has evoked a politics of hand-holding. … His policy is financial confidence and food stamps.” 
   
   Unger has posted several interviews with himself on his YouTube channel, which are viewed only rarely. Unger typically disables comments on his videos, and he receives few positive or insightful comments when he does allow user interaction. 
   
   In a video Unger posted on the topic of the Hegelian and Sartrean Heresies, for example, a viewer praised Unger’s “very interesting” point of view but complained that “there’s got to be something you can do” about “your jaw click.” 
   
   According to the Harvard Crimson, Unger received tenure at Harvard Law School at the unusually young age of 29. 
   
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target: – A former professor who taught one Barry Obama at Harvard Law School now says his onetime student "must be defeated in the coming election." Roberto Unger—who, the Daily Mail reports, actually advised Obama during his 2008 campaign—believes Obama "has failed to advance the progressive cause," he says in a YouTube video from last month that got little notice until now. Unger at one point launches into what the Daily Caller refers to as "a series of one-liners against Obama," though he also criticizes the Republican Party. "He has spent trillions of dollars to rescue the moneyed interests and left workers and homeowners to their own devices," says Unger, who is also a well-known Brazilian politician. "He has subordinated the broadening of economic and educational opportunity to the important but secondary issue of access to health care. … His policy is financial confidence and food stamps. He has evoked a politics of hand-holding." After reiterating that Obama must be defeated, Unger concludes, "Only a political reversal can allow the voice of democratic prophecy to speak once again in American life."