Frankly, no lawyer should ever hold any executive office or be in a true decision making position. Their whole training is to find an argument and they can make an argument for or against anything. Whether or not that argument should be made on moral or ethical, even legal, grounds is rarely if ever a part of their analysis. They just shrug their learned shoulders and say something like, “that’s up to the jury/people/trier-of-fact to decide.”

To be a successful advocate, you must believe in yourself and your ability to win with your argument. Consequently, lawyers turned decision makers will ride a bad argument and a bad decision right over a cliff that was visible to any real person.

I’m not going to get into a pissing contest with you, but the biggest problem – or one of them – is the promenence of lawyers in our society.

The legal profession is the profession where the actions of the 99% denigrate the good 1%

I mean that that.

You fleshed it out in a meaningful way beyond a simple catch phrase.
It was worth reading.
Nice job.

I hope someone, some where is printing up the Obama Whopper t-shirts, crowns and table napkins..

Like you said, too many better things to do.

The only “news” that I have seen today is that the President did 5 shows and is doing Letterman tonight. Of course, it isn’t news anymore. I think I will watch “The Factor” replay instead.

Watching him is like watching “A Christmas Story” marathon. It is the same show, all over again. Nothing new is said. It is the same speech as it was last year and the year before that. Only with him, it isn’t once a year, it is at least twice a month.

I need duct tape… lots of duct tape. Just like the “Drill baby, Drill” campaign when all the drill bits were sent to Congress, we should send rolls of duct tape to the WH with a note; “SHUT THE DUCT UP!”

They lie.

They lie to promote their argument. They lie to avoid being forced into the truth. They lie because in their world, as in democrat politics, the ends always justify the means. (The sooner we get that, the quicker we quit getting hammered with a stunned look on our faces.)

My buddy, also a former detective boiled this down for me. He said lawyers will say and do anything to promote their client’s case. In Obama’s situation, Obama is Obama’s client. Judges are in the court not to interpret the law, but to keep the lawyers in line. If the judge wasn’t there, they lawyers would spin off into space, telling bigger and bigger whoppers. It is what they do.

The “Judge” in politics is supposed to be the unbiased media which scream “objection” when it hears a whopper- something it did all the time with GW. But Obama said what he said because he knew there would be no objection, just genuflection to his will and word.

If you let it get to you, you’ll find yourself screaming at the television, doing a Joe Wilson. You have to understand, it is like lions eating baby gazelles, or snakes eating rats when you see lawyers lie. It is simply their nature. This is one reason, if I were god for a day I would change one law and make a huge difference. I would deny lawyers the right to run for public office or hold the position of a judge. I’d make common sense and some sort of decency grab a foothold in the courts and in politics.

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When we all eat Obama’s Whoppers do we get a paper crown or an unemployment check…?