GOP and Swift boat politics

**TheBeast** · September 11th, 2008, 08:35 AM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I will count Obamas' time spent serving as president of Harvard Law review. </div></div>

Do you have any clue whatsoever what the Harvard Law Review is?

The only experience that gave him was the ability to write two books but not introduce one piece of legislation.

The Harvard Law Review is a student-run organization whose primary purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship. The Review comes out monthly from November through June and has roughly 2,000 pages per volume. The organization is formally independent of the Harvard Law School. Student editors make all editorial and organizational decisions and, together with a professional business staff of three, carry out day-to-day operations. A circulation of about 8,000 enables the Review to pay all of its own expenses.

Aside from serving as an important academic forum for legal scholarship, the Review has two other goals. First, the journal is designed to be an effective research tool for practicing lawyers and students of the law. Second, it provides opportunities for Review members to develop their own editing and writing skills. Accordingly, each issue contains pieces by student editors as well as outside authors.

Most student writing takes the form of Notes, Recent Cases, Recent Legislation, and Book Notes. Notes are approximately 18 pages and are usually written by third-year students. Recent Cases and Recent Legislation are normally six pages long and are written mainly by second-year students. Recent Cases are comments on recent decisions by courts other than the U.S. Supreme Court, such as state supreme courts, federal circuit courts, district courts, and foreign courts. Recent Legislation look at new statutes or administrative rules at either the state or federal level. Book Notes, also written by second-years, are six-page reviews of recently published books.

**R13** · September 11th, 2008, 02:13 PM

I know what it is, damn. My point in mentioning it, which you cut most of it off in that quote, was if he his going to claim Mccains time as an officer..then I will claim Obama's time as President of Law Review.( full-time position functioning as editor-in-chief and supervising the law review's staff of 80 editors) Which I was NOT saying it is executive experience, but its as much as Mccain if they want to claim his time as officer.

**duckmeat** · September 11th, 2008, 02:17 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ut1</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> .

Obama has NO creditials to be president, and is the least qualified of any that has run in US history. I'll repeat, if he were not black, he would not be in the race at all. A white person with the same credentials would have been laughed out of the race very early on. </div></div>

Same goes for Palin. A way to get votes, but no where near being the best for the job. She's a prop....

**imported_ut1** · September 11th, 2008, 05:04 PM

Palin is not running for president. If she only had one day as governor of Alaska (an EXECUTIVE position), she would have more experience at the executive level than Obama. She's had nearly 2 years as Chief Executive of a state. If the shoes were on the other foot, I'm sure you'd be saying "Oh, but look at Obama, he's been governor for two years." Give me a break! Your point has no merit.

**R13** · September 11th, 2008, 05:08 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ut1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Palin is not running for president. If she only had one day as governor of Alaska (an EXECUTIVE position), she would have more experience at the executive level than Obama. </div></div>

Your argument applies to Mccain also, so your point has no merit also.

**imported_ut1** · September 11th, 2008, 05:13 PM

McCain's time as a military officer more than qualifies him to be a leader, which he has been. Again, if Obama were white, we'd be talking about how little executive experience Hillary has.

**R13** · September 11th, 2008, 05:18 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ut1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">McCain's time as a military officer more than qualifies him to be a leader, which he has been. Again, if Obama were white, we'd be talking about how little executive experience Hillary has. </div></div>

A military officer is still not a mayor, gov, or president. Like I mentioned in a earlier post, you dont have a case with that either.

**imported_ut1** · September 11th, 2008, 05:23 PM

And again, apparently you know nothing about the military. But, then again, neither does Obama. Another reason he should not be president, which carries the responsibility of CIC.
You can argue the point all you want, but it will never change the fact that Obama got the nomination based on his skin color. Hillary out-qualified him in every aspect other than military service, and she probably knows more about shooting a gun than Obama does. Well, no I take that back. If she knew how to shoot, she would have knocked Willie's willy off after Monica. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img]

**R13** · September 11th, 2008, 05:27 PM

If I went by your argument then half my family would be qualified to be president because executive experience. I couldnt care less if Mccain can fire a gun, because if we got into another war either Mccain or Obama wouldnt be on the ground fighting.