Monday, March 17, 2008

The shysters' party

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My Frontier Thesis said...

This disdain for lawyers within the Republican ranks is going to hurt the party — and respect for understanding the Law — in the long run. I understand the country is getting into mud-slinging mode with the election coming up. Yet it's a bunch of nonsense. It's akin to a freshman entering an intro Calc class and accusing the professor of splitting hairs with equations, and all sorts of Math-Speak. C'mon, give me a fucking break. Lawyers and Law is good. A few give it a bad name. Math and mathematicians are good. A few give it a confusing name.

An fyi regarding Thomas Jefferson, the Law, and Math: during his matriculation, Jefferson studied law for five years under the tutelage of George Wythe, and it later helped him draft some real astounding and thoughtful political philosophy. On the mathematical note, Jefferson also studied mathematics under William Small, a Scotsman then at William & Mary College.

3/17/2008 4:37 PM
Tecumseh said...

Of course, there are some good lawyers -- even good lawyers who were both Republicans and politicians: Abe Lincoln comes to mind. But we're talking about lawyers in 2008, and their over-representation in the body politic, especially within the Democratic Party. Sorry, I simply don't think this is good, for anyone involved. We need more diversity here, than all those cookie-cutter Harvard-Yale Law pinko limo-liberal Birkenstockers we keep seeing.

3/17/2008 5:17 PM

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