<p>Where did the $5M come from?? Real Estate? :eek:</p>
<p>Per NBC’s Andy Merten, Clinton said at her press conference today: “I loaned the campaign $5 million from my money. That’s where I got the money. I loaned it because I believe very strongly in this campaign. We had a great month fundraising in January, broke all records, but my opponent was able to raise more money. And we intended to be competitive, and we were. And I think the results last night proved the wisdom of my investment.”</p>
<p>Investment? Yup, she and Bill will buy the election if they have to??</p>
<p>“I guess it is possible she flew from one to the other, or that rules were different in 1973.”</p>
<p>Muffy, HRC said in her book she took both Bar exams in the same summer. Maybe she’s telling a fib. </p>
<p>“I had taken both the Arkansas and the Washington, D.C., bar exams during the summer, but my heart was pulling me toward Arkansas. When I learned that I had passed in Arkansas but failed in D.C., I thought that maybe my test scores were telling me something.”</p>
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<li>Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton</li>
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<p>She might have failed DC during the summer of 1972 after law school, then took AK in 1973. Or bar exams were different then. It is strange. Or maybe she never took DC but thought it would make her sympathetic to say she failed a bar exam?</p>
<p>“Where did the $5M come from?? Real Estate”</p>
<p>Commodities. </p>
<p>"Hillary Rodham Clinton apparently took huge risks to earn profits in the early phase of her commodities trading, an analysis of her trading records indicates. She made purchases that had to be sold the same day because she would probably have been unable to put up the money required by the commodity exchange to allow her to hold the investments overnight. </p>
<p>The White House disclosed this week that beginning in October 1979 she made a $100,000 profit over 10 months of commodities trading, after starting with a $1,000 investment."</p>
<p>I don’t know how it worked 30-odd years ago, but at present, you can take the bar in another state and “waive” into DC. I believe you apply to both bars, pay a fee to both bars, undergo character & fitness scrutiny for both bars, but sit one exam, the state exam. BUT, DC requires higher scores than some states do. For example, I know someone who took the New Jersey bar and passed, but her score was too low to qualify her to waive into DC. That may be what Hillary was talking about.</p>
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<li><p>I knew people who took two bar exams at once. The Multistate was on Wednesday, and one state would have its separate exam on Tuesday, the other on Thursday. I never did that. I can’t remember exactly who and which, but I’m sure I remember there were some people who did. Maybe PA and NJ were set up that way. Or maybe DC was set up that way to let people take the bar there and somewhere else, too.</p></li>
<li><p>Under the rules in effect when I came out of law school, you could only waive into DC if you had practiced for five years elsewhere. DC was considered a very tough bar exam, and, yes, lots of fancy people failed it. Pennsylvania was a piece of cake.</p></li>
<li><p>Neither then, nor now, did Yale Law School prepare any of its students to take any bar exam. If you go to Temple, or Howard, or Hastings, getting students up to speed for the bar is a big institutional priority. If you go to Yale, preparing for the bar is something you do on your own. It’s not at all uncommon for Yale JDs to have problems with tough bar exams if they try to cut corners on preparation. Generally, though, they don’t fail twice.</p></li>
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<p>“I think Giuliani’s wife was the stake in his heart.”</p>
<p>Which one? "</p>
<p>He’s many things, but I don’t think a bigamist. I wonder if he had managed to keep it together with his pretty blond wife and attractive kids would he be the nominee.</p>
<p>I posted on a thread about Clinton flunking the DC bar several months ago. First, I noted, that the DC bar was NOT difficult, it consisted of a multistate portion and 20 small essays of about one or two paragraphs. You could pass the essay portion with a MINIMAL amount of effort, and the multistate portion required a correct answer score of 70 or above for a “pass”. At the time Hillary Clinton took the DC bar the pass rate was about 65% and for the typical Yale graduate it would have been over 90%. Second, the bar exam was given in July of 1972 and it would have been impossible for Clinton to sit for two full exams at the same yimr. She must have taken and passed the AK bar at the November 1972 sitting. </p>
<p>I’ve never seen any evidence that Hillary Clinton is so smart–she rode into Yale law as a result of affirmative action toward women and the fact that her “radical” credentials at Wellesley fit the profile Yale was looking for. She could not get a job as a lawyer until her husband became the Governor of Arkansas, at which point she was made a partner at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock. She “didn’t recall” working on a case for which she billed over 1,000 hours, according to her testimony in the Whitewater case. One thing she seems very “smart” about, to me (another female lawyer who took the DC bar the same year she did) is fudging on the facts.</p>
<p>JHS - you are absolutely right; Yale Law is known for being very theoretical and in fact, I believe UConn law claims its grads have a higher pass rate on the Connecticut bar. I would never, ever not use a lawyer because they failed one bar exam, especially DC. </p>
<p>You absolutely can take NY bar with another state most years; usually CT or NJ because you take the Multistate on the middle day. And it is possible DC did the same. Maybe she failed DC because she took 2 days of the bar in AK then flew that night to DC and took the DC portion there? </p>
<p>Or maybe the Multistate portion didn’t exist then so you could take AK and DC in different weeks. I’d love to hear from a Hillary age lawyer to figure this out.</p>
<p>The AK web site indicates she was sworn in in Oct 73 so it is possible, but very unlikely that she would have taken AK in July 72. I’m sure it was July 73.</p>
<p>Everyone in the US took the multistate (objective) portion of the July bar exam on the same day. Otherwise it would have been corrupted. I don’t know how Hillary Clinton can claim to have taken 2 bar exams at the exact same time, unless Arkansas, had a very different bar exam system. In all likelihood Clinton took the February 1973 bar in Arkansas and passed. If she were sworn in during October 1973, that’s the explanation.</p>
<p>How do I know that Yale was looking for radical females in 1969? Because I went to college in New England and went through the law school application process at the same time. Clinton was an SDS-er, a very attractive credential for Yale. Saul Alinsky, her mentor, had deep connections at YLS. At the time it was common knowledge that Yale admissions was full of left-wing radicals looking for similar minds. No, I did not read her application, but having graduated from Yale, Clinton should have been able to answer the simple essays on the DC bar. I can assure you there were no trick questions. It was a piece of cake. </p>
<p>Why did Hillary flunk the DC bar? 1) She was in love with Bill (oops, not the politically correct feminist answer) 2) Yale law school does not prepare their students to pass easy bar exams (seriously doubt it) 3) she was either not law school material or she didn’t apply herself because she was too busy marching and chanting with the National Lawyers Guild to pay attention to her studies (quite possibly) or 4) her memory wasn’t good. I vote for #4, since she has had quite a bit of trouble “recalling” things like the clients she worked for or where the records are kept or the names of radicals she hung out with in the 60’s.</p>