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Being an engineer should exclude anyone from running for President.
What's a scientist?
Science and 'scientists' have been hijacked to promote poliitical agendas.
I'd suggest a large animal veterinarian would possess the best qualifications.
Lawyers are aliens who have their own cryptic language designed to be understood, vaguely, only by other lawyers. They have been so insidious as to cradle our laws in such secret language the everyday person cannot use written legislation as a reference for ethical behavior or even legal behavior. Within the vortex of appeals, reversals and interpretation no one can possible figure out the extent of acceptable behavior.
the lawyers created the modern day dark monster known as the 'slippery slope'. Dare to infuse logic in the legislative stew and warnings of the 'slippery slope' are raised. A monster that will sue the pants off you, your town and your workplace.
Legislators sign off on legislation they have not read or understood and say without embarassment that it would take a team of lawyers to review and explain the complicated legislation. And apparently that is ok with thier constituents.
Never sign anything you don't understand, the consumer bureau cautions. Then you go to the dentist and are asked to sign a legal document before treatment. You have no idea of the implications you just agreed to abide by.
Lawyers should be banned from political office.
Or one could just learn how to read beyond a junior high school level. Problem solved.
Can you imagine a Washington ran by Engineers and Scientists? Would this country be in better shape? I think so. Lawyers are clueless.
typical liberal/leftists dream, letting our betters rule over us. The reality is usually quite different. These are the children of russian peasants. In all some 20-30 million russian peasants starved to death under the care of communist "scientists and experts."
With the exception of a very few, I dont personally know any engineers that are capable of thinking outside the box.
***Note***My husband is an engineer, works for a major aerospace company, brings home fellow engineers all the time for dinner, etc, and quite frankly, most of them seem to be incapable of operating the soap pump and hand towels in my powder room.
Just an example....
I sure hope they manage it, at least they try. Considering the number of people I see simply walk out of restrooms, at work and elsewhere...
This country has had exactly one engineer as President - Herbert Hoover.
Draw your own conclusions.
If you were a scientist or an engineer you would realize a sample of one is not very statistically meaningful.
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Originally Posted by Strel
Having been both a lawyer and a scientist, let me answer this for you.
No.
Scientists make extremely poor administrators in general. Politics and law are as much art as science. The empiricism that serves engineers and scientists so well in their fields simply does not work in the political and legal sphere where human interaction is involved.
You are forgetting the social sciences. Psychiatrists and psychologists are scientists too.
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Originally Posted by SLCPUNK
How would that appease the religious nut cases in this country? They CLEARLY aren't interested in any type of science.
Throughout the history of this country most scientists have also been religious.
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Considering the number of people I see simply walk out of restrooms, at work and elsewhere...
