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- From: schlegel@cwis.unomaha.edu (Mark Schlegel)
- Subject: Re: 13 of 18 Clinton appointments are lawyers?!
- Message-ID: <schlegel.727594966@cwis>
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- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
- References: <schlegel.727484544@cwis> <1993Jan20.021311.15751@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:42:46 GMT
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- thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
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- >In article <schlegel.727484544@cwis> schlegel@cwis.unomaha.edu (Mark Schlegel) writes:
- >> I find it really amazing that Clinton tells us that he will appoint a cabinet
- >> that "looks like America" and that will stand for change when in fact 13 out
- >> of the 18 are - LAWYERS -.
-
- >Thirteen out of eighteen have law degrees. One might more properly
- >ask what happened to the other five, given the importance of a law
- >degree to dealing with the field of law, but let's look at Schlegel's
- >objection more closely.
-
- >All of the eighteen graduated college. Presumably, Schlegel would wish
- >that only nine of them have, and that two or three of the others have
- >failed to graduate high school.
-
- You are assuming when you try to guess my wishes, my complaint is that
- Clinton obviously knew that he would want to hire the best educated and
- most qualified people for the job AND that this group of people would NOT
- have the same kind of demographic distribution as America in general by the
- very virtue of this high degree of experience, skill and education. His
- claim that he would hire such a staff is another example of how Pres. Clinton
- has made a habit of saying things that sound compassionate and sensitive to
- his audience that don't make sense when thought over.
-
- >Of course, then Schlegel would be complaining that Clinton wasn't trying
- >to hire the most qualified candidates.
-
- No, I wouldn't and I did not say that either. I would in fact be happier if
- Pres. Clinton had been more thorough in his appointment decisions, I still
- think many of his appointments are not qualified or appropriate (Bill Brown,
- Shalala, Zoe (what's her name?), and others). Please Pres. Clinton, hire
- some cabinet members that are qualified and not necessarily Friends of Bill.
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