I’m pretty tired of the lawyer-bashing. I run a small business too. It’s a law firm. A lot of lawyers do the same.
Government is about making and enforcing laws. Lawyers are the experts in this field, which is why so many politicians were trained as lawyers. Of the Presidens, 25 of the 44 (including President-Elect Obama) were lawyers. It’s quite a distinguished list, including: Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, Polk, Lincoln, McKinley, Taft, Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Nixon.
It seems to me that there are far more lawyers in the leadership of the Democratic party than among Republicans. This might explain why Republican candidates seem to have such a hard time communicating their positions, which generally are far more popular than the Democrat’s positions. Lawyers and salespeople study and practice persuasion and argument.
So do pimps and other con artists generally.
If you didn't have right & wrong drilled out of your pea brains in law school you wouldn't have to rely on "Persuasion and argument" to do your jobs.
Same here. I don’t know what a `Wayne Root’ is, but he or it can lick my a**.
(I don’t think Wilson or Roosevelt were lawyers; socialists maybe.)
“Government is about making and enforcing laws.”
It is tough to help you defend lawyers while you make such a statement.