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Tue Jul-06-04 09:54 PM
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| Why the "Edwards is a Lawyer" whining won't work |
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Just doing a quick search about...and I am sure someone is compiling this information
Republican lawyers
pRick Santorum – Graduated from Dickinson Law School, former lobbyist/lawyer for the World Wrestling Federation
Trent Lott – Law Degree from University of Mississippi 1967
Richard Shelby (Pennsylvania) – University of Alabama Law School
Arlen Specter (Pennsylvania) – University of Pennsylvania Law School
Elizabeth Dole (North Carolina) – Harvard Law School 1965
Jeff Sessions (Alabama)– University of Alabama 1973
Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) - Willamette College of Law in 1985.
Ted Stevens (Alaska) – Harvard Law School
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| imax2268
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Tue Jul-06-04 09:55 PM
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| 1. this is my favorite... |
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pRick Santorum – Graduated from Dickinson Law School, former lobbyist/lawyer for the World Wrestling Federation...
that's just to funny...
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| SunDrop23
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Tue Jul-06-04 09:59 PM
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| 2. It won't work because... |
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we have had four years of "do as we say do, not as we do."
And you are seeing it here.
You think laid off factory workers (for example) are going to say "Edwards was a trial lawyer..." or will they instead focus on the positive energy of the Kerry-Edwards ticket?
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| TheFarseer
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Tue Jul-06-04 10:01 PM
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| 3. but we're not talking about them |
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we're talking about good ole boy bush.
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| Ugnmoose
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Tue Jul-06-04 10:02 PM
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| 4. Edwards fought for the little guy |
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He is the type of lawyer that the average guy can appreciate. He is not one of these high paid corporate whore lawyers fighting to screw you and me. His story resonates very well as evidenced by how well he did in the primaries, especially since he is relatively new to national politics.
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| mgarretson
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Tue Jul-06-04 10:15 PM
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the only problem with your argument is that they're going to say "Not all attorneys are bad," but Edwards was a trial lawyer (cue the eery music)...
I don't agree with them but they'd say the Corporate attorneys like those good Republicans are good folks and that Edwards and his trial lawyer buddies leach off the system...
I'm with you on this... I'm definately Kerry/Edwards 2004, but I see how they'd try to needle your argument.
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| winga222
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Tue Jul-06-04 10:23 PM
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Wasn't the so-called Father of the Republican party, Abraham Lincoln, also a trial lawyer? Should we dig up his dead body and drive a stake through his heart to make sure he's really dead?
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| Liberal_Dog
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Tue Jul-06-04 10:29 PM
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| 7. Lincoln's Casket Is Buried In Concrete |
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They were worried that Lincoln's body might be stolen and held for ransom. Interesting fact.
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| Liberal_Dog
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Tue Jul-06-04 10:32 PM
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Lincoln's casket is actually buried in concrete. They were worried that someone would try to steal his body and hold it for ransom.
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| winga222
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Tue Jul-06-04 10:46 PM
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Any buried trial lawyer is in danger of being dug up and staked like a blood-sucking vampire. At least that's how they're all portrayed. Like any profession, I'm sure they're made up of the honorable and the not-so honorable.
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| LittleApple81
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Wed Jul-07-04 09:27 AM
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| 14. Two of the "lawyer jokes" that have stuck in my mind: |
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Why don't lawyers sunbathe on the sand? Because cats come and cover them up.
Why would you find a lawyer buried up to his neck? Because people did not find enough dirt to cover his head.
They DO inspire a lot of animosity, but when we need one we change our tune pretty fast...
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Tue Jul-06-04 10:52 PM
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| 10. I'm sort of curious how this hatred of trial lawyers came about |
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Is it really the "no brainer" that the pundits act like it is? Usually, most people that I know are jack happy to sue if something happens to them -- Republican or Dem -- and this whole two-step processing of "the trial lawyers drive up health care costs, bankrupt businesses, etc." seems just a shade too complex for your average
Forrest Gump to parse. It's not like Clinton's undershorts or Seven of Nine blowing her husband in public -- it doesn't seem like that salient of an issue, where everyone would have this "fierce hatred" of trial lawyers...
Any help for me on this one?
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| SharonAnn
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Tue Jul-06-04 11:59 PM
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| 12. It's a right-wing "meme". It's from the Newt Gingrich vocabulary |
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that uses "liberal" as a bad word.
"Trial lawyer", spoken with the right amount of disgust in one's tone of voice, is used by the right-wing to protect the corporate crooks so that ordinary people think the "trial lawyers" are bad and the corporations are good.
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| Oilwellian
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Tue Jul-06-04 11:26 PM
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| 11. Trial lawyers don't issue the verdicts |
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Ordinary Americans do. Polls show tort reform is a loser for the Republican party. :D
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