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• Monday, March 31, 2008 08:21 AM

  Elect more lawyers!

  Talesin,

  (Frank Lloyed Wright?)

  Always nice to see someone celebrate lawyers. Actually, working class people can read contracts. They can also delegate to attorneys who can read contracts for them. Remember, the President is the President, not the Attorney General. Delegation. Important point.

  Union staff would be laughing at your comments. Union negotiators and stewards read contracts all the time. Union officers, especially national union leaders, negotiate master contracts that cover thousands of workers. Somehow the 'dummies' do it! There is even a group of labor attorneys, who sometimes come from the ranks of labor, or understand it's position.

  Obama and Clinton were not even labor attorneys. Clinton famously advised WalMart for many years. The legislatures are full of lawyers, and where has it gotten us? Even unions have to remember that the lawyer represents you, not the other way around...

  I appreciate your comments about people having to be themselves. If Obama is smart, he will not pretend too much. But having a position that we need lawyers in office automatically puts you against populism. You are not a populist. Even some of the voters want 'experts' to lead them around. The population has been demobilized, de-politicized, dis-organized. That way the 'lawyers' can then represent 'us.' Democracy means more than voting for attorneys.

  By the way, I work for attorneys. Nice folks, but not qualified to lead because they are attorneys.

  —ELYDOG Read ELYDOG's other letters
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