Does a law degree make you a genius?
I mean when you graduate from Harvard or Yale you can do anything, I want to know what the magic is there,
Al Gore is so amazing since he graduated from Harvard and now preaches about global climate shifts and knows about polar bears. He’s so genius, he might even be able to convert his private jet to be powered by wind energy.
Then you got Obama, wow he’s such a genius and knows how to spend money. It’s as if he was an accountant, realizing that government ran health care won’t cost the government money, and he said he won’t raise taxes. He’s a magic man whipping money out of thin air.
Hillary Clinton probably has more magical powers then Al Gore. She’s from Arkansas and became the senator of NY. She just leaped across the states, then she leaps on both sides of the spectrum to criticize Bush for the war and ran the primarys saying she will end it, and now is the secretary of state in favor of the war. I love it, magic skills.
So any ways tell me if I get a law degree can I too be a genius?
I want to get my law degree, then give you advice on health care, possibly even know about saving the environment, maybe I’ll be able to know how to support something I strongly advocated against.
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No, but some people with law degrees are geniuses. Individuals who have graduate degrees were generally much better students throughout their academic careers. People who have such degrees from prestigious schools generally tend to have been excellent students.
Your rather simplistic analysis however does not give any indication that you would be able to follow in the footsteps of such individuals. Certainly genius status is heavily contraindicated. Nevertheless, you can study the issues you referred to in more depth. There is nothing you can’t learn.
Lawyers are expected to be able to familiarize themselves with a wide variety of subject matters and learn information quickly in order to be able to best represent the interests of their clients. For instance, it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to cross examine an expert witness such as an accountant or a doctor or a climatologist if you have little knowledge of the basic subject matter involved in a particular case.
Well in his case it helped him become the first black president, he was the first African American to write the Harvard Law Review; and yeah, usually it takes a genius to get into Harvard. he won the nobel Peace Prize, was a heavy underdog and beat the Clintons, he was one of the few who voted against the war and was RIGHT; and in the 8 months he’s been here, it has been announced that America is now officially out of the recession according to the economists.
Yeah, I’d say he’s a genius.
I’d say people with law degrees probably started out more intelligent than the average polar bear. Doesn’t mean they possess common sense and doesn’t mean they cannot buy and sell snake oil.
Somehow I think no matter what degree you get, one would hard pressed to call you a genius.
You have to be pretty smart in the first place in order to get a law degree. But genius, I don’t think so. The mechanic that works on my car, now that is shear genius.
A law degree makes you a lawyer. You need a genius degree to be a genius.
"So any ways tell me if I get a law degree can I too be a genius?"
Doubtful. This rant has proved that you are anything but…
…you can only be a genius if you win a Nobel Prize and stay at a Holiday Inn Express !
If you can’t run an campaign, you can’t run a country.
John McCain did not run a successful campaign.
It doesn’t matter where you graduate from, it matters whether or not you win the votes.
By the way, I encourage you to get a law degree, especially from an Ivy League school. You might then appreciate how much work it takes.
Being a genious makes you a genious. Pieces of paper don’t.
Harvard and yale law are hard to get into, they don’t accept just anyone… only the brightest of the brightest…
and then to do well, among the brightest, you have to be very smart… genius may be a bit much, but very smart… smarter than most…
it’s not magic, it’s selective acceptance…
I’ve known some really dumb lawyers so that can’t be true. You have to be good at memorizing facts. You need to have lots of money or a big name to attend these schools. It is nothing more than a social club.
Al Gore is Absolutely Genius.
He has global warming being caused by CO2.
He has the current cold wave being caused by CO2.
He has storms being caused by CO2. He has drought being caused by CO2.
That takes real genius. That is like saying ice causes fire.
All we need now is real proof that explains how oil caused the ice age or the heat that was present during the age of the dinosaurs.
Al Gore sees all, knows all and does all that is good. – That’s real genius.
(Barf!)
I’m a member of MENSA and I can’t explain Al Gore.
Ever heard of ADVISERS? Government officials have economists, scientists (not the Bible) and environmentalists advising them. If Bush had of actually listened to them, maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess.
btw….Didn’t see where you criticized or minimized Republicans with Law degrees in your little "insightful" rant.
Lawyers have to be convincing liars, that qualifies them for many jobs.
A law degree doesn’t make you a genius. It can be that you need to be a genius to get a law degree from top schools.
You also don’t need to be a genius to know that Al Gore didn’t get a law degree from Harvard, just a Bachelor’s.
After schooling you on a question yesterday that you conveniently deleted, I doubt you can qualify for being "average" much less "genius".
No having one does not make you a genius. Not having one and having your family connections and pull get you into a good school does not make you one either.
Being able to get a law degree from Harvard or being a rhode scholar is only a bad thing if you are a democrat, and the person making the determination is a republican. If you have been to about 4 colleges and have a degree in journalism you are smart enough to rule the world.
What I go to my Dr. for stock advice and lawyer for my allergies all the time, isn’t that how you do it?
I am sorry Frank, but your command of English is too weak, to allow admission to where those geniuses were able to have their minds challenged and straightened. That doesn’t mean you can’t ever go to law school or build up your mind, but that you have some work to do first.
First off stop watching Fox news. Those guys use poor English all the time and its sure to rub off. Additionally they sell more ads and have more viewers by flattering them instead of challenging them. This is their great crime, that they actually weaken the minds of those that watch. But even the best of television is pretty light weight.
If you want to be a genius then you are going to have to read a lot of things you disagree with. I have something really disagreeable right here. A whole list of quotes from great minds that are in opposition to how things are today.
http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/georgism_01.html
And for the liberals out there here is something entirely disagreeable:
http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/hirsch_socialism_01.html
Wow..what a creepy question. Al Gore has a degree in journalism, not law. Hillary Clinton is a lawyer, but she never suggested she was a genius…she does understand that the world is a complex and ever changing entity where today’s solutions may differ from tomorrow’s. It doesn’t take a genius to understand that. And yes, ‘money’ is created out of ‘thin air’. That what’s called ‘monetary policy’. Enough money is created to grease the wheels of commerce, but not so much as to cause inflation. Back in the day of the ‘gold standard’ such a thing wasn’t possible, but in the modern world there simply isn’t enough gold to back every dollar. On a gold standard hardly anyone could ever get a loan. That would mean that no business could expand production even in the face of demand. Right now, we’re in a situation where there’s little cash or credit in the system. Banks are reluctant to loan and consumers have little cash to buy. Enter ‘the stimulus’! Within a short period of time banks will loan again because things are wearing out and have to be replaced….that equals demand. Hiring will pick up and suddenly more people with have more cash to consume this new production. Meanwhile billions of dollars of bad debt gets washed out of the system, and a positive economic equilibrium is restored. Barack figured that one out…..the guy that posted this question probably never will.
One of the first things they teach you at the big law schools is how to fake it. Sprinkle a few latin phrases and some obscure cases here and there, refer to your tennis partner the Law Clerk for Justice Bigshot or the weekend in the Hamptons or the Vineyard that you just spent with a partner in Big, Law and Firm, and you’ll snow everyone except a fellow big law grad. But when you recognize another one, you have to pretend you each know what the other is talking about. That’s why they hang out together.