Posted on 08/29/2016 11:02:43 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
'Hillary's brainpower is highly overrated': Trump opens new line of attack on Clinton and recalls she FAILED the bar exam in Washington
Hillary Clinton failed to pass the bar exam in D.C. after graduating from Yale Law School She has spun the shortcoming as a happy indication at the time that she should follow Bill Clinton to Arkansas Donald Trump pulled the episode into the news Monday with two tweets In one he said her 'brainpower is highly overrated' Donald Trump has opened up a new line of attack on Hillary Clinton, writing Monday on Twitter that her intellect is 'highly overrated' – and recalling, correctly, that she once failed the Washington, D.C. bar exam.
'Does anyone know that Crooked Hillary, who tried so hard, was unable to pass the Bar Exams in Washington D.C. She was forced to go elsewhere,' his tweet read.
'Crooked Hillary's brainpower is highly overrated.Probably why her decision making is so bad or, as stated by Bernie S, she has BAD JUDGEMENT,' Trump added.
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Second, can you imagine how much easier the bar exam would have been in 1970 or so than it is now? The absurdities of the ACLU and Warren Burger and the explosion in regulatory and administrative law, environmental law, employment law - none of that had even happened yet ! She had to know property, contracts, torts, civil procedure and ConLaw. She frigs up everything she touches because, while devious, she’s not innately smart.
I'm guessing you're a lawyer or you would not have posted this. My experience in having studied for and taken two bar exams (and passing each on the first try) is that one doesn't read cases to study for a bar exam. Instead, one studies outlines of the law in the tested subjects and takes practice tests. Also, neither of the states I took (the most recent being in 2003) tested regulatory, administrative, environmental or employment law. It was just the basic property, criminal, torts, contracts, procedure, constitutional law, etc. If one is reasonably smart (I am certainly no genius.) and puts a reasonable amount of time into studying, it is not hard to pass on the first try. I do think a failure suggests a lack of intelligence, discipline or commitment.
I read a website that purported to reveal the IQ of various presidents. Bush was said to have the lowest out of a group of about 15 presidents.. His was said to be in the 120s. Hilary and Obama were both were said to be geniuses with IQs in the mid 150s.
Yes, and again 67% pass means 33% or 1 out of 3 people failed it... so trying to make an issue about someone failing a bar is not really much of an issue other than red meat for the troops... Which is what I have been saying all along.
girlieman backed mclame.
Hmm, I must have slept through the Hilary presidency. :-) There is no way Odumbo has an IQ of 150. He is a dullard.
Agree that saying virtually 100% pass is an overstatement - if talking about all first time test takers (including all schools).
But we are talking about a Yale law school graduate. One of the hardest law schools to get into (though once in- no grades so pretty sure to graduate). One of the best educations out there. Don’t have the stats from 1973 for Yale, and while last year it was 92%, 2009-2011 it was over 95% - for all jurisdictions. Thus her failure to pass a mediocre bar exam, and likely be one of well less than 10% of her graduating class to fail an objective exam - supports the proposition she is clearly not really all that smart.
She has connections. She has used her connections. She is not totally stupid - but she is not up to par with the vast majority of lawyers.
Sigh... Arguing she’s not the brightest lawyer fine, but when you have failure rates in the 30-40% or higher on average, trying to argue she failed a test is proof she’s not smart is a bit silly.
Again this tweet is red meat for the troops, and frankly given that Carlos Danger is in the Headlines, I think Trump missed a golden opportunity to own a news cycle, with this sort of thing.
The fact you have to offer a paragraph to try to articulate the point, shows that this one isn’t one that’s going to connect in any meaningful way other than to the red meat troops.
Also, the bar exam includes many subjects that a law student might not have taken in school. Almost everyone takes an expensive bar review course that crams in all the black-letter law that law schools neglect in favor of the case method and theory. I went to law school at the University of Chicago, and it did NOT prepare me for the bar exam.
That said, flunking the bar exam can usually be attributed to lack of ability or lack of preparation. A smart graduate of a good school who takes the exam seriously shouldn't flunk it.
The left thinks she’ll destroy Trump in a debate. They really think so.
...let them.
I guess you’re right. Since Yale is just an average law school, I guess only half the students are smart enough to pass the bar.
I work in a profession where the professional exam has about a 40% failure rate -- and that doesn't include the first exam that is taken while you're still an undergraduate. A person who failed the exam and then never took it again isn't someone I'd consider even a marginal professional in my field.
Congressman Hank “Guam is going to tip over” Johnson passed a bar exam somewhere.
Yale tends not to concentrate on the nuts-and-bolts "black letter law" but on more theoretical and abstract stuff.
Somebody who lives for the more political courses, might well have snoozed through the more concrete courses that teach the material that the bar exam tests.
Still, I wouldn't say that she was all that bright. It was more that she was very active and ambitious and this impressed people as a sign of intelligence, rather than of energy or will power or the will to power.
What little brain she has is badly damaged by Parkinson's or Alzheimer's and a regular regime of epileptic seizures. All that is intact is the Arkansas Medusa's revenge and homicide genes.
Did Mrs. Bill take the DC bar exam a second time?
That is only because those who run the search engine companies do not wish their corpses found with throats and wrists slashed in low rent Arkansas motel rooms, or with brains blown out in remote locations in Fort Marcy Park, or mashed against a mountain in Yugoslavia with an utterly uninvestigated approximately .45 caliber hole in the forehead even though SOME Black Lives Matter, or, or, or....
OH? So they don’t share the agenda, merely fear for their lives.
While what you wrote could be true, were they not leftists to start with, but I fully and firmly believe that even if the Clintons are as gentle as lambs, the Googles and Yahoos would still do as they do, because they share the leftist globalist agenda.
Arab. white then negro.
I see now that she did not try again; lost interest presumably as she moved to Little Rock.
Point well taken. OTOH neither Ron Brown nor Vince Foster were likely to have been members of the VRWC, as merely two examples.
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