Actually, having taken the bar (and yes, passed the first time) and having first hand knowledge of how extremely difficult a test it is, I would say that it’s not unheard of for a smart person to have to take the bar multiple times to pass. It IS unheard of for a smart person to take seven years to complete college if they are going full-time.
So I would have to say that you have to be infinitely dumber to take seven years to go through college (assuming you are a full-time student for those seven years, which I assume Palin was not), than to take the bar five times.
“Actually, having taken the bar (and yes, passed the first time) and having first hand knowledge of how extremely difficult a test it is, I would say that it’s not unheard of for a smart person to have to take the bar multiple times to pass. It IS unheard of for a smart person to take seven years to complete college if they are going full-time.”
Oh yea. If you are working your way through school, it can take that long. Or if you change majors, it can take that long. How many years you spend in college has nothing to do with your intelligence. But going through three years of law school and probably multiple bar review courses and still failing it FOUR times shows a serious intellectual deficit. Lisa Murkowski is a dim bulb. Those are the facts.
Failing the bar exam once is a disgrace and would be embarrassing. Anyone who takes a bar review course and studies reasonably hard should be able to pass it on the first try.
By the way, bringing Sarah Palin into the equation tell everyone what your agenda is.
Also, no one really cares that you say you passed the bar exam on the first try. No one on this board is comparing resumes with you. The New York State Bar is only two days and has a pass rate in the 80s among first time takers. It is far from the toughest bar exam the country. Try taking a bar exam that lasts three days or better yet, try taking (and passing) one that lasts three CONSECUTIVE days where the pass rate is 39% (without the bar review course) and then come back and give us your expert opinion on what a difficult test it is.
“...I would say that it’s not unheard of for a smart person to have to take the bar multiple times to pass. It IS unheard of for a smart person to take seven years to complete college if they are going full-time.
So I would have to say that you have to be infinitely dumber to take seven years to go through college (assuming you are a full-time student for those seven years, which I assume Palin was not), than to take the bar five times.”
—So, by your logic, people who don’t even graduate from college must be REALLY dumb...
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Rush Limbaugh...
You make an amazing number of assumptions. I guess lawyers can afford to do that since they get paid whether their clients go to prison or not. I was a carpenter. We can’t afford to make many assumptions at all. Unless we’re building a lawyer’s house.