To: Morgan in Denver; samantha
Remember also JFK was running against another former Senator so his election is something of a wash.
However, I will remind you of another former President who served only ONE term in the US Congress and 2 terms as a State Representative before becoming one of the great US Presidents of all time. This despite having NO "executive experience". -
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Abraham Lincoln.
574 posted on
01/28/2007 11:15:31 AM PST by
MNJohnnie
( If they say "speaking truth to power,"-they haven't had a l thought since the Beatles broke up)
To: MNJohnnie
I willingly accept the correction. Worse, if I remember right, Lincoln lost a number of elections prior to his nomination for president.
In defense, I was primarily considering presidents since FDR, realizing Hoover was never elected to anything other than the presidency, if I remember right. I was drawing the line with FDR because the nature of the office of the presidency changed numerous times until FDR's unprecedented four elections and the changes resulting after WWII.
To: MNJohnnie
I'll have to re-look but I thought JFK beat Nixon, who was Eisenhower's VP, as well as a former senator.
To: MNJohnnie
Lincoln was born in 1809, there was no 24-7 News Media Cycles then, and they did not have the internet. They did not have the DBM. I rely on what I see in the last couple of decades, but even that was mostly before the 24-7 hateful DBM. You need someone that can appeal to the most people, and sad to say, but freepers are not the majority of the American People. Yet!!!!
730 posted on
01/28/2007 3:36:52 PM PST by
samantha
(The New Media fighting the DBM for our Sanity, Survival ,Soldiers.)
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