You are not a retard because you are standing up for the working class.

No, you are a retard because you are failing to note that I am saying being trained in the law is a plus.

You are arguing that is GOOD to hold someone's educational level against them when you are voting for a president, in essence you are arguing in favour of having uneducated presidents.

Administrative ability is also a plus, so is vision, and so is being able to put your ideas across well.

You are a retard because you are prosecuting a class war rather than looking at what those qualifications mean, instead of actually about what a lawyer is trained to do, you are acting like that lawyer's education is meaningless.

There is nothing wrong with getting an education or demanding one in a president. The Republicans have studiously avoided law degrees in their candidates for years - and it has ended up hurting the country as its legal system took strain.

Once you've got that education you are no longer working class.

Further you talk about how the president is supposed to be a leader in things like art? Are you insane? Most politicians' writing is terrible, and the last professional "Artist" America hired as president supported Apartheid and couldn't balance the national cheque book.

The economy, if you read your constitution is not really the president's main field of focus. He can set up treaties which Congress must then approve, but the purse strings are held by Congress, it is Congress that decides how much America spends.

And treaties are a legal issue, a treaty has constitutional effect. This is why Bush selling nuclear technology to India was such a big deal, he was violating constitutional law when he violated the NPT.

The president can argue with Congress but he can't force it into action on spending, he can only veto actions taken by Congress. A president's main ability when it comes to the economy is having a bully pulpit which can be totally ignored, pretty much like what happened to Jimmy Carter.

That GW Bush has managed to do so much damage is not because presidents are that legally powerful, but because assume that they are. They aren't. There duties are mainly dealing with legal issues if all goes well. Their duties regarding the military should be the exception not the rule.

Inquiring minds may want to know. Ms Google brought this to me:

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=aa0cd21b-0ff2-4329-88a1-69c6c268b304

Don't forget to read (skim) the comments after the article. Always the best part!.

Non definitive wiki Factoid:

Wilentz appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on December 8, 1998 to argue against the Clinton impeachment. His testimony — he told the House members that, if they voted for impeachment but were not convinced Clinton's offenses were impeachable, "history will track you down and condemn you for your cravenness" — cheered Democratic partisans but was criticized by the New York Times, which lamented his "gratuitously patronizing presentation" in an editorial.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Wilentz

We saw how not connecting with average voters sinks candidates...remember Bush Pere at the check out counter when he hadn't a clue what a scanner was? If Obama can't figure out what low budget Pennsylvania ales there are, or bowl anything better than a series of gutter balls, he is never going to connect with blue collar voters...they are deeply suspect of egg heads, of which Obama clearly is. It may impress the latte swillers at Starbucks and the Ipod toting kids at Ivy League schools, but beyond those hyperliberal bastions, his intellectual credentials are liabilities, not assets.

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.

You fill me with inertia.

I grew up in the Detroit area and lived in Detroit and am well aware of racial politics. Detroit Mayer Coleman Young was reelected over and over again for little reason other than he was black. It certainly was not because he was a good mayer.

Barack Obama is my Senator and he is no Coleman Young. He isn't even former Chicago Mayer Harold Washington who himself wasn't above some racial politics. He isn't playing that game at all or they are so low-level in this race they are almost non-existent because even I can't catch them.

I lay the racial split to several things, one is a knee-jerk reaction to Hillary Clinton's remark about MLK which might have been awkward with the lack of awarness of what MLK means in the black community but wasn't racist, and one is a definate suspician of Bill Clinton's remarks in SC which even I caught. The only reason to bring up Jesse Jackson is to conflate Obama with other black politicians. Laying the history of previous black politicians at the feet of current black politicians to me is a dog whistle to the whites. It works too.

Maybe the "racial split" was inevitable since the Black community is supporting a Black man. So what? He is their candidate and good for them. They are only 15% of the population. If you want to support Hillary because she is white and you are suspicious of black politicans that is your own business also, but don't pretend Obama made you do it.