Comments on: So many Presidents, so many lawyers

By: Vince P

Vince P — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:54:53 +0000

What I detest is the Lawyerization of war.. including their involvement with targeting.

Were these vermin always involved like they are now?

By: Oh, bother

Oh, bother — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:55:43 +0000

1) AVI re: lawyers and self-righteous outrage: I wish I’d written that!

2) While reading this it occurred to me that both law and journalism were active and respected professions long before schools were established to teach them. After schools were established to make both professions more professional, both went downhill in a handcart and lost public respect. Coincidence? I doubt it.

By: roc scssrs

roc scssrs — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:30:28 +0000

Not that I don’t appreciate a good lawyer joke, but– I just wanted to note that Truman wasn’t just a haberdasher–he was a bank clerk, then a farmer, then a captain of artillery in WWI, then he got together with his vet buddies and started the haberdashery. Then it was years as a local county commissioner. If Obama had one-tenth the real life experience that Truman had (and Palin has), I wouldn’t be so nervous at the prospect of an Obama administration.

By: Paul Gordon

Paul Gordon — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:27:01 +0000

Mario Puzo once wrote that the most quoted line from his novel “The Godfather” was the Don pointing out that “A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns” (No, the line is NOT in the movie).

He had lost track of how many people loved that line, many of them lawyers.

By: Tertium Quid

Tertium Quid — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:50:15 +0000

God has at least one lawyer with him: Saint Thomas More!

By: GeoPal

GeoPal — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:16:17 +0000

Roy Lofquist said:
In law there is always a winner and a loser. You’ve got at least half the people pissed before you even start.

Until the winner gets his “billable hours” bill and then everyone’s pissed.

Assistant Village Idiot said:
Lawyers are also skilled in becoming self-righteously outraged in exchange for money, which seems an excellent preparation for a political career.

Very perceptive AVI. Painfully, disturbingly, true.

By: Assistant Village Idiot

Assistant Village Idiot — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:22:10 +0000

I did a post on a similar phenomenon about a month ago. Most of the Senators are lawyers as well – half the Republicans and two-thirds of the Democrats.

I mentioned it in the context of John Sununu, one of only five Senators with any science training (two physicians, two veterinarians, and he’s an engineer). John is about to lose in NH, I think, and we’ll have even fewer people who have aclue about technical matters in place.

Lawyers are also skilled in becoming self-righteously outraged in exchange for money, which seems an excellent preparation for a political career.

By: Donna B.

Donna B. — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:22:25 +0000

I suspect all the lawyer jokes were posted by lawyers

By: Roy Lofquist

Roy Lofquist — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:39:51 +0000

Perhaps these two most undeserved bad knocks are hospital food and lawyers. Nothing tastes good to sick people. In law there is always a winner and a loser. You’ve got at least half the people pissed before you even start.

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:33:33 +0000

Q: What’s the difference between Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney?

A: When Sarah shoots a lawyer he’s stayin’ down.