Dirty Harry might have offended a few lawyers last night.
In his (supposedly) unscripted speech at the Republican National convention, Clint Eastwood made public his opinion of lawyers as he spoke to an empty chair that represented Barack Obama.
"See, I never thought it was a good idea for attorneys to be president, anyway," Eastwood said, taking a swipe at Obama's Harvard Law education in front of the Republican crowd.
He was met with a mix of applause and whistles.
Apparently he forgot Mitt Romney got a joint degree from Harvard's Law and Business Schools.
Even Eastwood's timing couldn't be better. The convention's next speaker—this time we think scripted—was Florida's Republican senator Marco Rubio, another lawyer, The Blog of Legal Times pointed out.
Lawyers actually are not that few and far between. Obama, the 44th president, is the 25th lawyer to hold the post, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
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