Clint Eastwood "Attorneys Don't Make Good Presidents"

[DemocratSinceBirth]

What was Abrahmam Lincoln?


This is sad.

[seabeyond]

1. how about actors? lol. better? nt

[muntrv]

2. Like Nixon?

[sammytko]

3. Romney has a law degree

[Denzil_DC]

6. +1

Thanks! I just popped in here to point that out.

[unc70]

4. Romney has a JD

Rambling, inappropriat humor.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Presidents who were lawyers (some were good presidents, some were not):

#2 — John Adams (Harvard, then apprenticed as a lawyer)

#3 — Thomas Jefferson (College of William & Mary, then apprenticed as a lawyer)

#4 — James Madison (College of New Jersey — now Princeton — then read law)

#6 — John Quincy Adams (Harvard, then apprenticed as a lawyer)

#7 — Andrew Jackson (self-taught lawyer)

#8 — Martin Van Buren (Kinderhook Academy, then apprenticed as a lawyer)

#10 — John Tyler (College of William & Mary, then apprenticed as a lawyer)

#11 — James Polk (University of North Carolina, then apprenticed as a lawyer)

#13 — Millard Fillmore (clerked for and studied under New York Judge Walter Wood)

#14 — Franklin Pierce (Bowdoin College, then studied law)

#15 — James Buchanan (Dickinson College, then studied law)

#16 — Abraham Lincoln (No formal education, a self-taught lawyer)

#19 — Rutherford Hayes (Kenyon College, Harvard law)

#21 — Chester Arthur (Union College, then studied law)

#22 — Grover Cleveland (apprenticed as a lawyer)

#23 — Benjamin Harrison (Miami University in Ohio, then studied law)

#25 — William McKinley (Allegheny College, Albany law)

#27 — William Howard Taft (Yale, Cincinnati law)

#28 — Woodrow Wilson (College of New Jersey — now Princeton — then UVA law)

#30 — Calvin Coolidge (Amherst, then apprenticed as a lawyer)

#32 — Franklin Roosevelt (Harvard, Columbia law)

#37 — Richard Nixon (Whittier College, Duke law)

#38 — Gerald Ford (University of Michigan, Yale law)

#42 — Bill Clinton (Georgetown University, Yale law)

#44 — Barack Obama (Columbia, Harvard law)

[Marr]

7. Did he say that?

That would be asinine for a whole host of reasons.

[kestrel91316]

8. He said WHAT???????????????????? (I'm not watching)

[Schema Thing]

9. only because they look at both sides to every issue though.

[WI_DEM]

10. Wasn't FDR a lawyer?