Travis, Yep, one was a 2nd rate Hollywood actor and the other a 2nd rate businessman who enjoyed what degree of business "sucess' he had due to daddy's money and political influence. I'm fucking impressed.
On Sep 27, 2:38 pm, Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: *Travis* > Date: Tue, Sep 23, 2008 > Subject: The Rule of Lawyers > > The Rule of Lawyers > <http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2008/09/rule-of-lawyers.html> > > <!--[if > !vml]--><!--[endif]--><http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mveHL3n_4ME/SNW8XmDkw7I/AAAAAAAAAo4/PH6fck4...> > > What do the two most successful Republican Presidents of the last few > decades have in common? None of them were lawyers. > > It might seem like a trite observation but Reagan and George W. Bush were > both noted for their pragmatism, their ability to connect to voters and > grand visions. While both men were certainly flawed, they also had an > ability to transcend the trite legalisms of process and procedure in order > to strive for something bigger. > > As I wrote on Friday, the 2008 election beyond party comes to a choice > between a ticket with 2 lawyers and a ticket with no lawyers on it. It is > any wonder that the liberal political elite has fervently embraced the > lawyer ticket while lashing out venomously at the non-lawyer ticket? > > The legal profession today, more than any other profession, embodies the > moral equivalence and the distortions of language that turns right and wrong > upside down, at the heart of modern liberalism. While conservatives often > attack academia and Hollywood, the worst of the problem is inherent in the > modern understanding of American law, an understanding that requires > creating a moral vacuum and advocating not for justice, but for the > criminal. And yet America's leaders repeatedly come out of the legal > profession, almost in inverse proportion to the amount of public hatred for > lawyers. > > In the hands of liberalism the law has become a tool for undoing the body of > work of America's Founders, replacing it with hypocritical interpretations > and distortions, shelving the second amendment while interpreting the death > penalty and denial of citizenship as cruel and unusual punishment. > > When it came to crippling the War on Terror, while journalists did their > part, it was the lawyers who hounded and harangued and undermined until they > got their way. It was the lawyers who time and time again stepped forward to > fight for, sympathize and even aid and abet terrorists. And now it is two > lawyers who are running on the Messiah ticket for the White House on empty > rhetoric and a hollow spectacle and a great deal of dirty tricks. > > Even as liberalism has demonized the soldier, smeared the patriot and the > religious man, it has put forward three heroes, the reporter, the lawyer and > the teacher. These are the three pillars of American liberalism. The > reporter smears and brings down the reactionary power structures and the > political opposition, the lawyer provides legal cover, overturns "unjust" > laws and rules from above and the teacher propagandizes in the classroom. > > <!--[if > !vml]--><!--[endif]--><http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mveHL3n_4ME/SNW8eM1v2yI/AAAAAAAAApA/pYOQPNg...> > > Of these the lawyer is the most flexible, especially as the lawyer rises to > power, ruling from above. The reporter and teacher are primarily > indoctrinators, the lawyer is actually a ruler and wields real political > power. > > The character of the lawyer as the apex of the liberal power pyramid also > reveals much about liberalism. The lawyer is morally selective, excels at > rhetoric and at putting forward the image he wants others to see, he is > capable of bending men and women to his will and of exploiting the letter of > the law to suit his own morally ambiguous purposes. The lawyer may posture > as a moral crusader, but in the end no matter how noble his goals are > supposed to be, his means are rarely noble. > > The lawyer may wear many hats, most of them political, because as a liberal > footsoldier, his goals are generally political. He is the perfect weapon for > an ideology that views everything as political since in the end politics > comes down to rhetoric and law, and he has mastered both. He can convince > the crowds or individuals and make the legal case for his agenda and this > makes him into the King piece of the modern political struggle's game of > chess. > > The greatest trick of the lawyerocracy is to insist that obedience to the > strictest of the letter of the law is all that preserves our morality, when > it benefits the criminal or the terrorist, even as they shape and reshape > the law as they see fit. > > This cynical legalistic morality has crippled our ability to fight > everything from crime to terrorism to foreign enemies, required us to give > the benefit of the doubt to anyone hates us, while denying it to our own > people. > > The one thing that most Americans can agree on is that we do not need > another lawyer President. We need a clear vision and common sense solutions, > not more cynical legalisms and manipulative class warfare politics. 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