"Want Real Change? Quit Nominating Lawyers"

[szh]

An interesting point in this article:

http://www.mercurynews.com/elections/ci_10374495.

Quote »In fact, every Democratic nominee for president and vice president in the last seven elections — except Gore, who dropped out of law school to run for Congress — has been a lawyer.

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So, what's wrong with the Democratic nominee once again being a lawyer? After all, legal minds are trained to think precisely and evaluate both sides of an issue.

The problem is that lawyers usually do not run companies, defend the country, lead people, build things, grow food or create capital.[/quote]By the way, this is not a hate site. In fact, the San Jose Mercury News is a particularly liberal newspaper. Plus, Hanson is at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

I vetted the article before posting the link.

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[AZhitman]

I think BOTH sides can agree that attorneys are (at least in our day-to-day broad generalities) not to be trusted.

Seems I read a poll at some point that attorney was one of the LEAST trusted professions... right close to Used Car Salesman.

[szh]

Oh, certainly, lawyers have their trust problems.

However, this article is really making the point that lawyers do not have the real experience that executives do!

And, sometimes (my interpretation here - not in the article), thinking about the "legalities" of any issue solution can actually be a hindrance, because lawyers get too caught up in the fine details of legal rightness and wrongness and forget to consider the moral/ethical rightness or wrongness that is needed sometimes.

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[ishkabibble]

lawyers get too caught up in the fine details of legal rightness and wrongness and forget to consider the moral/ethical rightness or wrongness that is needed sometimes.

Based on that, one would think the current administration is full of lawyers.

Joke email "from Ireland" during the primaries:-------------------------------------------------------------

We here in Ireland, can’t figure out why people are even bothering to hold an election in the United States.

On one side, you have a ***** who is a lawyer, married to a lawyer, running against a lawyer, who is married to a *****, who is a lawyer.

On the other side, you have a war hero married to a good looking woman, who owns a beer distributorship.

What are you lads thinking over there?

[srellim234]

I've long held that it is a conflict of interest for a lawyer to be a judge or legislator. They have a personal financial stake in making the law as complicated as possible and stretch trials out, thus providing themselves and/or their fellow lawyers with job security.

That view is overly simplistic, I know, but it makes an awful lot of sense. Retun the laws to basic English and let people get back to a "trial of their peers" instead of a judge deciding which lawyer played the game better. Laws should be a lot simpler than they are.

[AZhitman]

Joke email "from Ireland" during the primaries:-------------------------------------------------------------

I LOL'ed. Good stuff.

[Marenta]

Joke email "from Ireland" during the primaries:-------------------------------------------------------------

We here in Ireland, can’t figure out why people are even bothering to hold an election in the United States.

On one side, you have a ***** who is a lawyer, married to a lawyer, running against a lawyer, who is married to a *****, who is a lawyer.

On the other side, you have a war hero married to a good looking woman, who owns a beer distributorship.

What are you lads thinking over there?

Based on the fact that the world political forum doesn't decide our CIC, we do, I'm still interested in what other countries see and think. We being who we are bring something to the table of every nation in this world, be it as little as students who've come to our country to learn or as big as sending direct funding and weapons to allies who're being attacked by another country or separatist group.

It is our decision that will impact the world, not the world's decision that will impact us; regardless of if it's a Democrat or Republican, Liberal or Conservative, Old or New, Familiar or Unknown, Military or Civil, or Male or Female. Keep that in mind on November 4th.

[ishkabibble]

It is our decision that will impact the world, not the world's decision that will impact us

I feel that is the case in every country. (except for puppet states, of course)