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A buddy of mine, who observed that I had become significantly less partisan (about the Republican aspect) and maybe even a bit a lot more liberal, speculated that possibly I had altered therefore of hanging all around liberal faculty colleagues.  I suspect that the fiasco of the Bush Administration might have been much more relevant- but at any rate, the exchange caused me to think about how my ten years as being a teacher, and my years as a practitioner before then, might have affected my politics.

I’m not sure my job affects how I view issues- but I do think it affects how I view individual personalities.  For example, some of my nonlawyer acquaintances view President Obama as strange and exotic- inspriring to those that liked him, scary to the people who didn’t.

 But partially (I think) because of his background being a lawyer and law professor,Office Standard 2007, Obama seemed to me a lot more familiar and less exotic than most of his competitors.  I felt like I knew Obama after the first Democratic debate I saw: Mr. Generic Democratic Lawyer/Law Professor,Microsoft Office Home And Student 2010, a guy who could easily work three or four doors down from me, a man with conventionally liberal views who gets along by going along and rarely says anything surprising about issues. 

By contrast, Senator McCain, the former Navy pilot with a penchant for bold, unexpected (and sometimes stupid) decisions, struck me as the exotic, alien candidate.   There is nothing in my life that has prepared me to understand John McCain,Office 2007, or to predict what would happen in a McCain Administration.

Does this mean I was far more likely to vote for Obama than I would have before entering teaching?  Probably not- familiarity breeds contempt, and I felt like I understood Obama’s weaknesses as will as his strengths.  But it does mean that for me personally,Office Professional Plus 2010,  he inspires a lot more apathy, and less fear or inspiration,Windows 7 Serial, than some other politicians.