Singing Loudly

President Bush has shown once again that he cannot debate. He is a hot head who just doesn't have the intelligence to debate. He is loud, crude, obnoxious, and cannot even focus his thoughts to address the question.

One of the many problems tonight is that he demonstrates the oft heard phrase that people who are not lawyers don't really know what lawyers do. Despite being in the company of lawyers and presumably understanding the American people it is clear that Bush has no idea of what a lawyer, let alone a trial attorney, does on a day-to-day basis.

If he doesn't understand the basic function of the legal system how in the world can he act as though he can cure some of the problems? Furthermore, Bush demonizes an subset of lawyers who fight for the health, safety, and economic well being of many American consumers, employees, and often the people at large. It's easy cry "punitive damages" to people who don't really understand what punitive damages are and how they operate. More importantly that they are discretionary and infrequently awarded because it has to be a particularly egregious case (usually those cases do not make it to trial because the company would rather plea bargain to avoid the negative media exposure).

Bush either completely does not understand what lawyers, specifically trial lawyers do, or he is lying out of his teeth to you. It is intellectual dishonesty and it is not the way to come up with a solution for where the civil procedure system does not work.

You deserve better.