One of the most difficult, if not the most difficult examinations, is the bar examination a law graduate has to take in order to be licensed to practice law. In many states, less than half pass the examination each time given.
I question whether Donald would pass the first time. I question whether Donald would even make it though law school. Seriously.
Law school is a first class pain in the ass. Hard! I know. I went through it. Let me say at the outset, I passed the first time! Could have failed though. You study roughly 20 areas of law in law school. The exam to be licensed covers ALL areas. I do not know how many. A hell of a lot more than 20.
In order to prepare for the bar exam, the graduate goes from graduation to a big city to take a prep course for the bar exam. I went to Brooklyn. My mind fails to recall the person’s name who taught the course. Sparachio, I think. The course was 6 weeks long. Two days off during the whole time. The course was given in the Brooklyn Opera House. I stayed in a dilapidated hotel across the street. The two buildings in a Brooklyn slum area.
You sat in the audience. Sparachio on a stool on the stage. He spoke from 3 pm to 10 pm. An hour off for dinner in the middle of that time frame. I was broke. My dinner was a hot dog in the subway. Ten or fifteen cents. It was 1960. I had an alternative. I would buy a chunk of liverwurst, loaf of bread and butter. Kept it in small refrigerator. Ate it off and on. Cheap.
I doubt Trump would have eaten in a similar fashion. He could afford to eat healthy meals.
We would study from 10 to around 2 in the morning and from whenever we got up to just before 3 in the afternoon. No fun.
At the time, less than 50 percent passed the New York bar exam the first time.
So Harris failed the California bar the first time. Big deal! Trump has knocked her for failing it. Let me tell you who else flunked their bar exam the first time. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton, Michele Obama, Jerry Brown and Ed Koch. Two prominent individuals who flunked twice were John F. Kennedy Jr. and Richard M. Bailey. Kim Kardashian flunked 3 times.
I knew several New York judges who were excellent judges and had failed once or twice. One who failed twice was an Appellate Judge.
No shame in failing the exam. A stupid ridiculous test of one’s legal knowledge.
Kamala Harris has had a distinguished career so far in spite of having failed the exam the first time. She may be Presidnet, is Vice President, has been a U.S. Senator, California Attorney General and San Francisco District Attorney. Her qualifications to be President exceed Trump’s. His first term as President nothing to brag about.
I was in Publix shopping yesterday morning. I was stopped in one of the aisles trying to figure out what to buy. Two Publix employees were nearby. Fiftyish. One White, one Black. The Black man apparently had decided to vote for Trump. No way could he be dissuaded. The White man was telling him he was crazy, Trump disliked Blacks and what had Trump ever done for the Blacks. His was a voice in the wilderness. It was obvious the Black employee was not going to budge off Trump.
I was tempted to join in. Stupid, I know. Also would have been wrong. I knew neither of the men.
At a rally saturday, Trump congratulated Putin, yes Putin and not Biden, for the great job Putin did in getting the result he did in the prisoner of war swap. He intimated that Putin got the best of Biden: Putin made another great deal…..Did you see the deal we made?
It galls me the way Trump sucks up to Putin. Makes me wonder some time if there is any merit to the story of Trump and a prostitute in a Moscow hotel room and a peeing incident alleged to have occurred.
Later today or tomorrow, Harris will select her running mate. I wanted Cheney. Never considered apparently. I think her choice will be Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro, a popular governor in a swing state. It would just about guarantee her carrying Pennsylvania against Trump. Means 19 Electoral College votes for her. Experts say the winner of the Presidential race needs to carry Pennsylvania.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a whack job. Something I have said many times before. Even before he decided to run for President.
He advises he left a dead bear cub in Central Park 10 years ago and made it look like a bike had hit the animal. The incident occurred in 2014. He considered it “amusing.”
Kennedy says he was driving through the Hudson Valley and saw a woman hit and kill a young bear. He pulled over, put the bear in the back of his van. His intent to skin the bear and put the meat in his refrigerator.
Time was against him. He had to attend a dinner at the Peter Luger Steak House and then catch a plane. He had to get rid of the bear. He decided on Central Park and the bicycle story. Which he did.
Kennedy said he did it because it was “a little bit of redneck in him.”
Presidential timber? No way!
Enjoy your day!