Figured I’d try a political blog entry out.  I did study Political Science in college after all—like half of my law school classmates.

Yesterday a McCain adviser told Fortune magazine that a terrorist attack would help McCain’s chances on winning the election…and EVERYBODY is freaking out about it.  Specifically he said, "a fresh terrorist attack 'certainly would be a big advantage to him.”

John McCain, in response said, “It’s just not true…If he said that, and I do not know the context, I strenuously disagree."

Okay, let’s start here, the advisor was obviously right.  Terrorism is a Republican issue, for better or worse—and what I mean by that is people who prioritize homeland security above all else vote Republican more often than they vote Democrat.  Common knowledge, right?  And if a terrorist attack were to happen in the US, it would bring the terrorism issue to the political foreground.  Commonsense, right?  ERGO, a terrorist attack would help McCain’s chances of getting elected.

John McCain obviously knows all this.  So why does he have to play dumb and pretend that he doesn’t?  (This is rhetorical; the answer is obvious: if he did, the media/Obama camp would have a “John McCain wants a terrorist attack” field day.)  I always thought he was one of the most honest politicians around, and this false naivety doesn’t suit him well. 

Of course, his advisor boarded the false naivety express earlier today: “I deeply regret the comments—they were inappropriate. I recognize that John McCain has devoted his entire adult life to protecting his country.”

And I’m sure if some reporter were to remind McCain that Presidential Elections are zero-sum games and that his quote implicitly suggested that an attack would help Obama, he’d keep the false naivety shtick going and say something like, “Terrorist attacks don’t help anybody—not me, not my opponent, and certainly not the people of America.” 

And don’t you think the John McCain of 2000 would have said, “Yes, an attack would help my campaign, but not, I don’t want one, and anybody who suggests otherwise, well, I’d like them to tell me that to my face”?

For more on this story, check out http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com, http://rawstory.com/, http://www.thedestinlog.com/, or http://www.newsgroper.com,

So...more....less political blog entries???

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Whenever somebody contracts some awful disease or undergoes some awful family tragedy and gets interviewed by the local news about it, they always say the same thing: “You see this in the news all the time, but you never think it can happen to you. And then one day it does…”

I think failing the bar exam is the opposite. Everybody thinks it will happen to them, but it only really happens to a select few. I realized that early on, that the math says I’ll likely pass the bar exam, so I haven‘t been too worried about it. Well, yesterday I found out that one of my friends took the bar exam six months ago…and failed it.
 
Sure, she took it during the school year, so she probably didn’t have enough time to study. But still, she’s a smart girl and she failed. Took a prep class and everything. Now it’s starting to hit home. Some people really fail this thing.

Tomorrow I’m going to figure out how to get my hands on review books. And then, beginning Monday, I’m going to start studying. I’m going to try to study all day, every day. Oh, and I’m going to work all day, every day to promote Lawyer Boy.

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