“...I would say that it’s not unheard of for a smart person to have to take the bar multiple times to pass. It IS unheard of for a smart person to take seven years to complete college if they are going full-time.
So I would have to say that you have to be infinitely dumber to take seven years to go through college (assuming you are a full-time student for those seven years, which I assume Palin was not), than to take the bar five times.”
—So, by your logic, people who don’t even graduate from college must be REALLY dumb...
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Rush Limbaugh...
“So, by your logic, people who don’t even graduate from college must be REALLY dumb...”
What logic? With logic like that, how did he pass even the New York Bar with its 85% plus pass rate?
There are approximately 1.2 million lawyers in the U.S. as of 2007. I would be willing to bet that not 250 of them failed the bar exam four times. But one of the few dim bulbs who holds this ignominious distinction was handed a Senate seat by daddy and wants to keep it.
Swapping Lisa Murkowski for Joe Miller is like trading Bob Ueker for Ted Williams. The intellectual wattage of the U.S. Senate will improve from 40 to 100 just in virtue of this event.
That actually doesn’t follow from my logic at all. I explicitly predicated my comment on one taking seven years of full-time study to get through college. I don’t believe any of Rush, Gates, or Jobs even hung around for four.