Posted on 08/16/2011 6:02:12 AM PDT by OKSooner
Standing in line at a parts counter here in northeast Oklahoma yesterday, and there were two guys standing behind me having a conversation about Michele Bachmann.
I turned around and politely added my $.02, and the gentleman who had dropped her name said "Yeah, I went to law school with her."
"Oh really? At ORU? (Oral Roberts University)" I said.
He replied "Yeah..." then he kinda looked at me and said "Y'know, I didn't know her well, but she seemed like a typical law student to me. I didn't see her do anything to really distinguish herself from the rest of us, which is probably a good thing... I also didn't see anything different from her than what you see and hear about her from her campaign."
Then we talked about some football and stuff.
I'm Morgan Fairchild's husband.
whom I've seen naked
Yeah, that’s the ticket. And she begged me to marry her.....
Jesus didn’t throw everybody out of the temple, just the actual defilers. His brush was, and always has been, just right.
As for ORU, I surmise she went to law school there because there are only a few law schools in the country a Christian can go to without being under constant spiritual and intellectual assault from the same insidious postmodermism that gave us BO. Some of those are Catholic, some are Charismatic. One is generic evangelical, Liberty Law School in Lynchburg, VA, Jerry Falwell’s creation, and my alma mater. The people who get admitted there are generally good people who have very little in common with the school’s founder, other than the desire for a Christian legal education. Yes, your brush, though it is yours, is too broad.
BTW, as a matter of full disclosure, I am for Palin. I just think criticisms of the other candidates ought to be fair and well grounded in fact. If we’ve learned nothing else from the Palinization of Sarah, let us at least learn that.
You have a problem recognizing sarcasm?
I did see her years ago at a Neiman’s in Atlanta. She was short but not little.
surmise?
I surmise that Christian law school, or Christian lawyer, like honest politician, or efficient bureaucrat, is an oxymoron.
You are wrong. There are a number of good Christian attorneys out there.
perhaps the oxymoron is “successful Christian lawyer”.
Why do you think such a school was necessary in the first place? I am a Christian, and I am an attorney. It is difficult, but it is possible. The fact that you are challenged by the thought of such a combination is at the heart of why these schools were created in the first place. The law is a noble profession and much good can be done with it, but there is a problem, in that most first year students are, in secular law schools, immediately subjected to harsh programming designed to separate them from their moral locus, to “disabuse” them of the notion that law and morality have an ancient and irrevocable nexus.
Christian law schools exist, in part, to prevent that from happening, so that practicing attorneys will throughout their career be able to conduct themselves and their work of doing the law according to universal moral truth.
I am not surprised that you are unaware of this, as we get virtually no press. However, you should know that these schools are generating many quality attorneys who are significant friends of and helpers to the conservative movement. I interned with Liberty Counsel, and I can tell you that were such firms not hammering away at the legal enemies of liberty, our net position today, as Christians and conservatives, would be much worse than it is.
On what grounds do you believe an Obama supporter would say this of Michelle Bachmann?
“”Y’know, I didn’t know her well, but she seemed like a typical law student to me. I didn’t see her do anything to really distinguish herself from the rest of us, which is probably a good thing... I also didn’t see anything different from her than what you see and hear about her from her campaign.” “
“perhaps the oxymoron is successful Christian lawyer.”
No sorry, there are a good number of them who are sucessful.
What kind of parts were you waiting in line for? Did they have them in stock? Do you think you got charged a fair price? What did the other guy, the one who went to that law school with Michelle Bachmann, need for parts? Did he get taken care of once he reached the counter?
I once knew a guy who knew a guy who knew a girl who used to go out with a boy whose sister got a Christmas card one year from the Bush family. It ended up being a mistake for some reason or another but they held on to the card anyhow. The Bushes were really good about sending out Christmas cards but I think their address book got so large at one point that mistakes were made.
How many Republicans are lawyers? That probably should disqualify them from holding public office right there.
What has this guy done with his life? I mean after all, he was in line at a parts store.
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LOL. Truly substantive critique.
I guess you have your manservant go to the auto parts store for you?
I took this as another snub on Bachmann. I was probably wr wrong. Ouch, that hurt.
But I am admitting it.
LOL!
Yeah, I can believe you’ve seen yourself naked... ;’)
[snip] She dated United States Senator and presidential candidate John Kerry in the early 1990s. Fairchild said although she has no plans to marry, she has been in a relationship with film company executive Mark Seiler for 20 years. [/snip]
successful Christian lawyer
Successful as a Christian, or as a lawyer?
...when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
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