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PROFESSIONAL POLITICIANS are what’s KILLING this country.
Good Lord. Even people who profess to be conservatives have bought the hook, line and sinker lie that only “professional politicians” can govern.
Let me ask, was George Washington a Professional Politician? Some of our best presidents were NOT professional politicians and some of our WORST were.
We have no hope if we keep electing the type of people who have spent this county into a depression.
With our country in the dire straits it is...how anyone can consider those without experience defies understanding. If Cain wins he will be a “figure head” because he will need enoormous propping up by others behind the scenes, just as he’s being given now.....he would have been finished already had others not stepped in to shore him up.
He was a soldier. And not one of our best presidents--he was a big government Federalist. Hell, he wasn't even a very good general, according to the military historians. His saving grace was that he had good generals working for him, and against his own instincts was wise enough to follow their ideas and not his own.
Some of our best presidents were NOT professional politicians
I'm thinking of our better presidents...Reagan, had a solid political resume. Coolidge, same. Jefferson--basically in politics from his early 30s on. Who else...Taft? Career politician.
Who were our great presidents without relevant political experience?
Good question. I would add that he was incredibly well-educated in the classical way, as were most of the Founding Fathers. I don’t know if there’s any comparison with Washington and the candidates we have today.
“Among the vicissitudes incident to life, no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the fourteenth day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years: a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me, by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my Country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens, a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with dispondence, one, who, inheriting inferior endowments from nature and unpractised in the duties of civil administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies.”