Posted on 07/12/2008 6:47:36 AM PDT by rjfl77
While there is not unanimity as to what types of experience should be considered necessary for a presidential candidate to possess, there is a general consensus that the following four categories are relevant. They are:
- White House (Vice-Presidential and Presidential) experience - Gubernatorial (Governor) experience - Congressional (US House and US Senate) experience - Military experience
Other kinds of experience (owner/manager of a business/corporation, secretary of a Cabinet-level office, mayor, state legislator, diplomat, attorney, judge, etc.) can be helpful to a candidate for the presidency, but are not by themselves usually considered qualifying experience. (Just ask Steve Forbes, Alan Keyes, Rudy Giuliani, or Elizabeth Dole, to name but a few recent examples.)
So. What follows is an objective list of the relevant, qualifying experience each major-party presidential nominee had under his belt at the time of the presidential election, dating back to 1944.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogcritics.org ...
And those masterpiece books he's written?
he’s telegenic.
his wife is attractive.
not to worry about credentials; he’ll get on the job experience!
his wife is attractive.
Say what ?
Well in a Charlston Heston classic movie sort of way!
she is attractive.
at the risk of being stoned or flogged!
Ah, but Barack has 46 years experience as a Negro. That trumps everything!
Shame on you, Cornelius. ;-)
As Rush has pointed out, this egomaniac had 143 days on the job in the Senate before he announced that he was ready to be President. Are we really this crazy?
Am I the only one who sees BO bail on a belief when it looks politically expedient to do so? Seems to me it's getting pretty crowded under his bus.
Why don’t these folks allow printing of the article. I hate reading long pieces in a browser, particularly 4 pages.
Walter E. Williams (age 72) and Thomas Sowell (age 78) have that beat. Either of them would make a far better President than Obama (or even McCain).
***his wife is attractive.***
Really, Ken, you have to stop posting from a bar late at night, or at least confine yourself to two drinks.
Thomas Dewey in 1944 may have had fewer years in elective office than Obama has now, but Dewey had attracted enough national attention fighting crime that in 1940 he was initially the front-runner at the Republican Convention (age 38) while still District Attorney of New York County, losing the nomination to Wendell Willkie, who had never held elective office.
I remember when President Bush was first running for president and the LameStream Media everywhere were using the DNC Talking Points of him not having “enough gravitas”.
One could hear it everywhere. I think that even El Rushbo did one of his famous montages of the DNC Hacks (aka reporters and commentators) refering to Candidate Bush’s lack of “gravitas”. Where are those voices now, hmmm? If anyone lacks gravitas, it’s the Obama-Mama-Ding-Dong. But we won’t hear about that now, will we? Not a word.
So I guess an executive, decision-making position in a business (i.e. The Real World) doesn't rate? All I'm seeing is how many paychecks these candidates have collected from taxpayers.
LOL! so true!
Good number to remember! Thanks.
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