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OmahaBlueDog

(10,000 posts) Fri Aug 31, 2012, 11:23 AM Aug 2012

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Clint Eastwood: "We don't need lawyers in the White House"

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Clint Eastwood: "We don't need lawyers in the White House" (Original Post) OmahaBlueDog Aug 2012 OP

We don't need businessmen in the White House LiberalFighter Aug 2012 #1

Warren G Harding and Herbert Hoover Spider Jerusalem Aug 2012 #7

So it's bad to demonize "success" but good to demonize those who practice law? tjdee Aug 2012 #2

Apparently Clint missed what a businessman like GW Bush can accomplish in office nt Fresh_Start Aug 2012 #3

35 out of 55 Founding Fathers were Lawyers. JaneyVee Aug 2012 #4

US presidents who were lawyers: Spider Jerusalem Aug 2012 #8

What about that whole "government of laws and not men" thing? moondust Aug 2012 #5

George Bush obviously agreed. DefenseLawyer Aug 2012 #6

LiberalFighter

(50,950 posts)

1. We don't need businessmen in the White House

Reply to OmahaBlueDog (Original post)

Fri Aug 31, 2012, 11:26 AM

Aug 2012

I'm wondering who else besides the nitwit Bush 43?

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)

7. Warren G Harding and Herbert Hoover

Reply to LiberalFighter (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 31, 2012, 01:49 PM

Aug 2012

Harding was a newspaper publisher; Hoover was a mining engineer.

tjdee

(18,048 posts)

2. So it's bad to demonize "success" but good to demonize those who practice law?

Reply to OmahaBlueDog (Original post)

Fri Aug 31, 2012, 11:27 AM

Aug 2012

Oh.....ok.......

Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts)

3. Apparently Clint missed what a businessman like GW Bush can accomplish in office nt

Reply to OmahaBlueDog (Original post)

Fri Aug 31, 2012, 01:12 PM

Aug 2012

nt

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)

4. 35 out of 55 Founding Fathers were Lawyers.

Reply to OmahaBlueDog (Original post)

Fri Aug 31, 2012, 01:14 PM

Aug 2012

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)

8. US presidents who were lawyers:

Reply to JaneyVee (Reply #4)

Fri Aug 31, 2012, 01:54 PM

Aug 2012

J Adams
Jefferson
Madison
Monroe
JQ Adams
Jackson
Van Buren
Tyler
Polk
Fillmore
Pierce
Buchanan
Lincoln
Hayes
Arthur
Cleveland
B Harrison
McKinley
Wilson
Coolidge
FD Roosevelt
Nixon
Ford
Clinton
Obama

Which list covers both some of the greatest and some of the worst.

moondust

(19,993 posts)

5. What about that whole "government of laws and not men" thing?

Reply to OmahaBlueDog (Original post)

Fri Aug 31, 2012, 01:33 PM

Aug 2012

Musicians do music, businessmen do business, plumbers do plumbing, and lawyers do laws?

DefenseLawyer

(11,101 posts)

6. George Bush obviously agreed.

Reply to OmahaBlueDog (Original post)

Fri Aug 31, 2012, 01:40 PM

Aug 2012

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