Union officials can read contracts, but can they read them to the same degree as a lawyer does?

Further, the contracts they read are employment contracts, which is a different species entirely from contracts which actually have constitutional force and laws.

Obama is a constitutional lawyer, this means that he has by training an understanding of constitutional law superior to that of a layperson, right down to precedents and principles.

Hillary is a corporate lawyer, which though less attractive on a generalist sense, at least means that trade negotiations come with somebody having an advantage in negotiating trade deals. She would also have an edge over a non-corporate lawyer in understanding what tort reform would mean.

This is one of the major selling points to Hillary, she understands corporate law in a time when you have corporations raping America.

They are trained to deal in a legal field which is the field in which the president is most active in a real sense.

Or you could go with the Republican ideology, of hiring people whose main interest in the law is in the narrow needs of business people and actors. This gave America Reagan, Bush Snr, Bush Jnr, and the worst example Delay (An exterminator.)

The main crux in my post was hiring a president who gets the implications of the law because they are trained to seek the loopholes and peculiarities of the laws you already have.

At some point you should read up on the laws President Clinton vetoed and why he vetoed them, and then compare and contrast to GW's "Signing statements."

It is not the "Working class is stupid." It is, you want somebody signing your contracts with the world with a fair degree of knowledge as to those contracts' implications in the rest of the law.

Of course other considerations come into play too, which is why someone being a trained lawyer is a plus not a deciding factor, but it is a plus in the end.

Which would hurt Hillary worse if it was true.

Why? This whole thing with Wright is playing out as an attack on black.

Without the black vote the Democrats lose the general.

I thought lolcait supported McCain.

Here would be the result:

McCain wins: America is plunged into the second great depression. During this period unemployment tops 30 percent, the war in Iraq is a humiliating defeat for America, and the home situation is such that this heralds the end of America's supremacy.

Indeed, as super-stagflation rocks the nation, McCain is forced to resign while the Democrats try to field an opposition. Because of the rancor of these elections, Hillary is booed out of a nomination, and out of the Democratic party.

The future will not be characterised by a boot being repeatedly applied to your face, it will be characterised by an led lined American branded boot, manufactured by child labour in China, being repeatedly applied to your backside as every single candidate with even the slightest inkling of a plan for getting America out of the shit will be castigated for being too left and too university educated.

By about 2020, America as a country will collapse completely. I shit thee not, this election, if it goes to Hillary America will survive, if it goes to Obama America will survive, if it goes to McCain America is doomed.

Lets see: People do first aid all the time. Camp coordinators are great at first aid.

So why are emergency wards full of doctors?

The same thing with lawyers. You can understand the constitution to a point, but training would give you an edge where being untrained would not.

The president's primary job is as a legal figure. He vetoes legislation and signs legal documents for the entire country.

Of course if you are a retard, you might take this as being all about sneering at the working class, but that is because you are a anti-intellectual retard who is likely to take a science fiction author's novel before the IPCC on climate change.

And you wonder how America managed to end up with two wars, a debt fast approaching unpayable, jobs migrating overseas at a rate of knots, its scientific lead being eroded by China, and its politics being governed by who slept with who rather than what is actually happening in the damn country.

There needs to come a point at which Americans finally admit that what they want in a president isn't someone who identifies with average Americans. You want someone who cares about average Americans, but in the end you want somebody with a totally different skill set to someone who works in a factory.

It is not a values judgement to speak about qualifications. That you are not qualified as a doctor does not mean that you are worse than that doctor, it does mean that the doctor probably knows more about medical matters than you.

And a lawyer, despite all the jokes which a surprising number of idiots take seriously, probably knows more about the law than you do. It is a relevant qualification in a president - while being say, an actor is not as good.