May 7, 2008 7:28 PM
Democrats: The Lawyers' Party
From my friend Robin:
The Lawyers' Party by Bruce WalkerThe Democratic Party has become the Lawyers' Party. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are lawyers. Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama are lawyers. John Edwards, the other former Democrat candidate for president, is a lawyer and so is his wife Elizabeth. Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate.) Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Benson, went to law school. Look at the Democrat Party in Congress: the Majority Leader in each house is a lawyer.
The Republican Party is different. President Bush and Vice President Cheney were not lawyers, but businessmen. The leaders of the Republican Revolution were not lawyers. Newt Gingrich was a history professor; Tom Delay was an exterminator; and Dick Armey was an economist. House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer, not a lawyer. The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon.
Read entire article here.
Would love to hear your comments on this!
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As a budding entrepreneur, I wholeheartedly agree. I have believed for years that the best way to firm up healthcare is tort reform. Lawyers convince juries to hand in ludicrous amounts of money to people who were often warned of consequences by their doctor, yet take no responsibility for their own medical decisions.
Shakespeare was onto something, "First thing, kill all the lawyers."
Posted by: JimmyV | May 8, 2008 1:49 PM
I always find it fairly annoying that so many people presume that lawyers are bad and untrustworthy. There are many positives to having lawyers in elected office, in part because we have to spend so much time studying constitutional law and all the various powers of the government. While it's nice to have multiple perspectives I don't think that one should be critical of the democratic party simply because many of its nominees are attorneys.
But maybe I take this a bit personally because I am an attorney.
Posted by: Karen | May 8, 2008 4:08 PM
