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Obama: NOT a Lawyer... NOT a Professor... (and Surely No Genius, Either!)
Reaganite Republican ^ | April 5, 2012 | Reaganite Republican

Posted on 04/06/2012 4:46:26 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican

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To: Conscience of a Conservative

There is a BIG difference between voluntarily going “Inactive” and “surrendering” your law license.


41 posted on 04/06/2012 6:31:14 AM PDT by NavVet ("You Lie!")
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To: Reaganite Republican

I love what you posted, but he was the president of the law review, not the editor.


42 posted on 04/06/2012 6:46:38 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: Diogenesis

Where is that from?


43 posted on 04/06/2012 6:47:19 AM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: Nifster

The word “surrendered” does not appear on the ARDC page for either Obama. Barack’s page says “voluntarily retired,” Michelle’s says “voluntarily inactive”


44 posted on 04/06/2012 7:12:24 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Reaganite Republican

Not my president.


45 posted on 04/06/2012 7:16:07 AM PDT by bgill
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To: popdonnelly

I would say his election to President was also affirmative action. Blacks voted for him because he is, sort of, black. Liberals voted for him because he is a black Marxist. The rest who voted for him were too stupid to see through his “hopey, changy” BS.


46 posted on 04/06/2012 7:20:36 AM PDT by MtBaldy (If Obama is the answer, it must have been a really stupid question)
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To: raygunfan

IIRC, she had gotten into some problems over real estate and questionable money transactions. No, I don’t have the link, if it still exists. No, I don’t remember the names, dates or details as that was back in ‘08 and two or three crashed computers ago. At the time, the Illinois Bar site had them listed but not active (not active wasn’t the term) so both had voluntarily or ordered by the court (that would be Moochelle’s) before he was elected.


47 posted on 04/06/2012 7:25:24 AM PDT by bgill
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To: eyeamok
I personally have asked hundreds of high priced and well known attorneys as to how often a supposed Harvard or Yale Law School Graduate VOLUNTARILY gives up their license to practice law. The answer is always the same “It has Never happened before”.

My wife is no Harvard lawyer but she is a lawyer and she left the legal profession to take up teaching. There are continuing education requriements and annual fees and stuff she would have to maintain in order to retain her status as a mamber of the bar in active standing. So she changed her status to some sort of "inactive" one. She cannot practice law but all she needs to do to reactivate herself is pay a fee.

I'm not sure if this is in any way similar to what Obama did, the linked reference citation to his legal status with the Illinois bar doesn't say, other than he's not authorized to practice law. I'm not sure that means he can never practice law or that he was ever under any sort of disbarment consideration. This might be all smoke, no fire.

48 posted on 04/06/2012 8:11:26 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Reaganite Republican
You know, I think if the court looks like it is going to go the way of striking it down, if I were Elena Kagan I might seriously consider voting with the majority to overturn it.

She sits in a cloud now, as Obama's lawyer she prepared the defense of this thing and then refused to recuse herself. It looks bad, makes her look like a partisan hack. She's even been accused by whisperers of feeding Obama inside info from the close door deliberaitons. In other words, she's viewed as his puppet.

If her vote was necessary, I'm sure she could live with that. But if her vote is not relevant, why not put that all aside by going against Obama? Not only would she remove the appearance of partiality, she would actually appear to be very independent, not a predictable hack at all.

49 posted on 04/06/2012 8:18:55 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
That's not true. My wife is a lawyer. She is currently staying home with our children, and not actively practicing law, and her page says "voluntarily inactive," just like Michelle Obama's. There are advantages to becoming inactive if your'e not actively practicing law (lower bar fees, no CLEs, etc). I know other attorneys who have changed careers and have permanently stopped practicing law, and their bar status page says "voluntarily retired," just like BO's. No disciplinary record (or threatened disciplinary record) for any of them.

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To clear up the controversy, wouldn't it be a simple matter to have a reporter ask Obama or his press secretary why Obama voluntarily gave up his law license?

If Obama's answer is as innocent as you claim above, then Obama should be more than happy to answer a reporter's question about his law license.

All I know is this: Obama has had plenty of time and opportunities to put the controversy to rest over these past almost 4 years, but he has been conspicuously silent when it comes to explaining why the President of the United States voluntarily gave up his law license in Illinois.

Why is President Obama so silent on the law license question, if the answer is an innocent and routine one?

50 posted on 04/06/2012 10:08:06 AM PDT by john mirse
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Never held a job, never picked up a check, never attended classes...

Thanks Reaganite Republican.


51 posted on 04/06/2012 10:08:26 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: eyeamok
I personally have asked hundreds of high priced and well known attorneys as to how often a supposed Harvard or Yale Law School Graduate VOLUNTARILY gives up their license to practice law. The answer is always the same “It has Never happened before”.

"[H]undreds of high priced and well known attorneys" are (a) wrong or (b) lying. There are plenty of lawyers who leave the practice of law, and maintaining an active law license can be expensive and time-consuming - between paying for bar fees, CLEs, required malpractice insurance, etc, it can be thousands of dollars a year. If your job doesn't require an active law license, then maintaining one is just throwing money down the drain.

My wife and I are both attorneys (I'm active, she's not), and we both know many former colleagues who have left the profession and voluntarily given up their licenses or become inactve (my wife included). Yes, even Harvard and Yale lawyers.

52 posted on 04/06/2012 12:33:22 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: muawiyah
We had a fellow working as a contractor for us ages ago who had both a law degree and a masters in some sort of engineering field ~ he preferred engineering.

The son of a very good friend of Mrs Gandalf got a BS in chemical engineering from Notre Dame. He moved to DC and took a job at the patent office. After about a year they made him an offer he couldn't refuse, they offered a full scholarship to Georgetown University Law Center towards a J.D. with a concentration in Patent Law. Yes he is a very bright young man!

Regards,
GtG

53 posted on 04/06/2012 3:01:39 PM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: econjack
My favorite question of libs: If Obama is what he says he is, why has he spent all that money sequestering all of his records, from high school through law school? Not one lib can give an answer.

Keep asking that one. Maybe some of them will spit out the Kool-Aid and put on their thinking caps instead.

54 posted on 04/07/2012 4:51:37 AM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: john mirse

Good point. Ping for later


55 posted on 04/14/2012 9:16:30 AM PDT by mick (Central Banker Capitalism is NOT Free Enterprise)
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