 And here he is, simply doing his job to make the arguments most favorable to his client, which is what I thought defense lawyers were supposed to do. Can you imagine what they would have done to Atticus Finch? So Johnny Cochran, OJ Simpson's lawyer, can say that Mark Furman put the glove in his sock because Mark Furman was a Marine and was taught to do that. Johnny Cochran can talk about Colombian neckties. That's okay. But make an argument, the same argument that Democrats made in 2000 after they lost