>> Over the past 100 years (or so) we have had 8 presidents with prior gubernatorial experience <<
Yep, but let’s consider the POTI during those same 100 years who went directly from the U. S. Senate to the White House:
1. Warren Harding
2. John F. Kennedy
3. B. Hussein O’Bama
A whopping 100% of these POTI racked up terrible records, as opposed to your 80% of gubernatorial POTI who were “unmitigated disasters.”
And by the way, just how do you conclude that Coolidge was any sort of disaster? IIRC, he was Reagan’s favorite past POTUS.
You misread what I wrote. In no way do I think Coolidge was a disaster. In fact, I said that he and Reagan were the only two who were NOT disasters.
And Obama isn’t a terrible president because he only served one term in the Senate.
He’s a terrible president because he is an America-hating extreme leftist who never knew anybody who wasn’t a racist leftist America hater.
Obama is a terrible president because he has a staggering ignorance of American culture and history.
Obama is a terrible president because he is a megalomaniacal psychopath with delusions of Godhood.
Obama is a terrible president because he is intellectually lazy and has the emotional maturity of a 14-year-old.
And those are just some of the reasons.