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Originally Posted by ottopilot
host, I'll offer you a deal... I'll try my damnedest (correct spelling BTW) to stop laughing after reading your post if you concede that the DNC chose an even more obviously unqualified candidate to be POTUS.
The panic over Palin is amazing. What an entertaining distraction.
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Did you even check, before you posted?
damndest - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
I posted more than once that Clinton was a much better nominee if democrats were committed to winning in november, but Obama is indeed, qualified to be the nominee. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law, and was editor of the Law Review. He gave up a lucrative opportunity to work at any of several prestigious law firms, to work as a lower paid communtiy organizer with limited direct career advancement opportunity, and he had as much or more political experience as Sen. John F. Kennedy had when he ran for president in 1960.
Sarah Palin is an unprecedented choice, in that her credentials make extremely mediocre credentials of Dan Qayle look better, in hindsight. He was a sitting US senator with a law degree from a lesser university.
I shouldn't have to explain to you that the competition Obama faced to get into Harvard, and into Columbia as an undergrad, for that matter, was immense, and he finished with high honors, at Harvard.
Palin has no such accomplishments, or comparable education, She succeeded amidst
mixed reviews, in what was in comparison, due to such a small population and on the more popular side of the local political spectrum, that there can be no comparison between her limited credentials and even those of the much criticized as a lightweight, Dan Quayle......
Have you considered that your failure to accurately value the significance of the competition that Obama succeeded in, compared to Palin's accomplishments...i.e., as the article I linked to shows, her path was much more open to manipulation and propaganda as a strategy for success.... is part of the reason you support McCain's decision to choose her?
What you confuse as "upset reaction" to Palin, is a small part of a much greater reaction to your seeming endorsement....or hearty support, for wholesale mediocrity, because you discern no greater competence or achievement of one compared ot the next. It;s vexing to the rest of us and we are very disturbed by it.
Do you draw the line when it comes to the qualification of the pilot who flies you, or the surgeon who puts the knife to you....or is just one big fuck you to anyone who sees your opinions as unreasonable.....not well thought out?
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Harvard Law School
It goes without saying that admissions to Harvard Law requires that a student be prepared to face competition of the highest caliber, many of whom will have been out of college for several years. Annually, roughly 7,000 applications will be submitted for a little over 500 seats in the class. The acceptance rate is typically around 11%, with LSAT scores generally ranging from 170-175, and GPAs typically ranging between 3.80-3.95.
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Here are recent stats for Liberty Universtity Law, a 4th tier school popular with US DOJ staff recruiters:
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Liberty University Law School! - College Discussion
I perused through their website for a couple minutes; it seems as if they pride themselves on being a "Christian" law school -- whatever that means.
Number of Applications: 752
Class Size: 164
Avg. LSAT: 154; Median LSAT: 153
Avg. GPA: 3.35; Median GPA: 3.3
http://www.regent.edu/acad/schlaw/admissions/
Mission Statement
Regent Law School seeks to admit students who take seriously the critical roles they will assume as future counselors, conciliators, defenders of the faith, effective client advocates and followers of Christ. ...
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Scandal puts spotlight on Christian law school - The Boston Globe
....Regent University School of Law, founded by televangelist Pat Robertson to provide "Christian leadership to change the world," has worked hard in its two-decade history to upgrade its reputation, fighting past years when a majority of its graduates couldn't pass the bar exam and leading up to recent victories over Ivy League teams in national law student competitions.
But even in its darker days, Regent has had no better friend than the Bush administration. Graduates of the law school have been among the most influential of the more than 150 Regent University alumni hired to federal government positions since President Bush took office in 2001, according to a university website.
One of those graduates is Monica Goodling , the former top aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales who is at the center of the storm over the firing of US attorneys. Goodling, who resigned on Friday, has become the face of Regent overnight -- and drawn a harsh spotlight to the administration's hiring of officials educated at smaller, conservative schools with sometimes marginal academic reputations.
Documents show that Goodling, who has asserted her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination to avoid testifying before Congress, was one of a handful of officials overseeing the firings. She helped install Timothy Griffin , the Karl Rove aide and her former boss at the Republican National Committee, as a replacement US attorney in Arkansas.
Because Goodling graduated from Regent in 1999 and has scant prosecutorial experience, her qualifications to evaluate the performance of US attorneys have come under fire. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, asked at a hearing: "Should we be concerned with the experience level of the people who are making these highly significant decisions?"
And across the political blogosphere, critics have held up Goodling, who declined to be interviewed, as a prime example of the Bush administration subordinating ability to politics in hiring decisions......
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