Posted on 09/04/2008 6:39:52 AM PDT by Tolik
The 2008 presidential campaign is supposed to be a referendum on “change” — who brings it and who doesn’t.
Real change, however, hasn’t yet proven to mean new politics.
The “hope and change” Barack Obama sounds like a traditional Northern liberal who always wants to raise taxes on the upper classes and businesses, expand government services, and provide more state assistance to the middle class and poor.
“Maverick” John McCain talks like a conventional Western or Southern conservative in favor of spending cuts, across-the-board lower taxes, and smaller government.
This year the media seem to think change means race and sex — whether Barack Obama’s background of mixed racial ancestry or the gender of Democratic primary candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
It’s certainly true that either the next president or next vice president will not be a white male. But does that mean de facto that the country will be run any differently?
There is, however, one area where we might have seen real change. The Democrats could have not nominated another lawyer. This may partly explain why former military officer John McCain and working-mom Sarah Palin are polling near even with Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden, in a year that otherwise favors the Democrats.
A snowmobiling, fishing, and hunting mom of five who was trained as a journalist seems like a breath of fresh air — and accentuates the nontraditional background of former naval officer John McCain. If the Republicans win, it may well be because — like George Bush and Dick Cheney, or Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush — they weren’t members of the legal culture.
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True. Abe Lincoln among others was an attorney in his early career.
Or do you vote for the two Lawyers?
Don't forget that in 2000 and 2004 the Republicans ran George Bush and Dick Cheney --- Not lawyers
Against
All lawyers or aspiring lawyers. Al Gore didn't finish law school because there was an opening to run for Congress and he grabbed it
Democrats always run effin' lawyers
1992
1996
1988
1984
1980
Jimmy Carter not a lawyer and was in fact ridiculed for being a peanut farmer but he was a very wealthy one so good for him!
Jimmy Carter was the last Democrat candidate who was not a lawyer
I can’t find anything about Jimmah being a lawyer. Either he was, or he wasn’t. Which is it?
If we’re going to espouse this line of thinking, we have to be accurate. After all, we’re right-wingers!
He is accurate. Carter ran 8 election cycles ago. He specified the last 7 Dem Presidents and VPs.
Heck I was saying this weeks ago.
OK, I stand corrected!
CA....
Jimmy Carter wasn't a lawyer, nor in the last 7 elections: 2008, 04, 00, 96, 92, 88, 84.
Mr. Hansen is correct.
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