Reply #106: sigh. do we have to reach this far?

[tripitaka]

I mean this guy could have named his own salary in addition to picking his employer. A corner office demand would probably have been agreed to. He was *that* hot. So, a plus on his resume, sure, but he could just as easily have done a few years in private practice and then gone into community work. The Edwards approach, get the money first and do good later.

Plus it's not beyond the imagination that Obama honestly might have felt a new way of reaching voters was necessary to improve our politics. So far I'd have to say he's really on to something.

Btw re Hillary, she did something similar, she didn't go for the bucks out of Yale Law, she went to Oakland to defend the Black Panthers, iirc. Maybe not as evocative as wading among used needles and crackheads on a daily basis but she doesn't cede the high ground on this imho, Hillary was very much the idealist as a young woman I think.