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Something that just occurred to me:

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Consider that, when needed, the purpose of hiring an excellent trial lawyer isn’t so much to ensure that justice is done as much as it is to ensure that a judge or jury sees things your way and grants you remedy. After all, what you want at the end of the effort is your legal hired gun to know the ins-and-outs of the litigatory milieu and have the moxy and chops to use that knowledge to bring about the desired end (which is to say, your legal victory, not necessarily a smile from Iustitia). You want justice done … as you see it. That’s why you hire a guy who knows how to work the system (the definition of a competent trial lawyer).

Brings us to electing a Constitutional professor and lawyer as president of the United States. What we’re seeing, all these years hence is that a Constitutional scholar and educator isn’t so much the lover of the Constitution itself as he is the smooth operator who knows just how to manipulate it to his (and his constituents’) ends.

Just like a trial lawyer who knows the law enough to make it work for his purposes, but not because he’s a law-ophile, this Constitutional expert knows plenty about his subject… the better to bend it to his wants.

– Nick (ColoradoPatriot, from The Casa)

Comments

  1. If Obama were that great of a Constitutional lawyer, why are his college records hidden? If he were that good, his record would be more open, would it not? Oh, yes, he was an instructor in Constitutional law, we are told. Yeah, we’ve all met professors in college who are, quite frankly, incompetent in the subject they are supposed to be teaching.

    No, I consider him a hack, getting away with whatever he can based on the lawyers around him.

  4. He started in corrupt Chicago Democratic politics. He brought corrupt Chicago Democratic politics to Washington DC. Remember Rahm Emmanuel? Valerie Jarrett? Bill Ayers? All were connected back to Richard Sandor, the scammer who started the Chicago Climate Exchange with funds funneled to him from the Joyce Foundation when Obama sat on its board… all the way to Al Gore who stood to make 15 billion the first year of the CCX before it collapsed.

    One day years from now we may know just how far spread and corrupt the entire global warming/cap and trade/climate exchange scam was.

  5. Craig (1) and kimthe (3) are correct. Obama might not be a dolt, but the reason he has gotten away with so much is because of who and what he is, and a compliant media that only activates when a Republican stands in their way or challenges their world-views.

    “They hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other… [They] want to disrupt and end a way of life. With every atrocity, they hope that America grows fearful, retreating from the world and forsaking our friends. They stand against us because we stand in their way.” ~ President George W. Bush, Address to the Nation, 11/20/2001

  6. The man is NOT a “scholar.” Here is someone who was CALLED a “lecturer” in Constitutional Law. Interestingly enough, a photo exists of him teaching at the University of Chicago, and what he appears to be teaching, based on his blackboard scrawls, is the Alinsky Method–which has little to do with the Condition, and much more to do with undermining it. The only thing he had EVER been, can EVER honestly may claim to, B is a so-called community organizer.

  9. Yeah, put me in the category of not-a-master-manipulator-of-the-Constitution, but an afflictee of narcissistic personality disorder who will do whatever it takes to be adored.

    Which means his declining years beginning in 2017, when he doesn’t have access to perks like the World’s Best Private Jet, should be at least entertaining to watch.