I didn’t know that.
In any case, I can’t help laughing whenever they bring up experience. Its clear that Obama thinks he wants to run against Palin, rather than that crusty old pirate McCain.
But its too late. Palin owned him on Wednesday night.
NO other executive experience before that.
Senator John Kennedy has no executive experience (first term Senator) before running for President. HIS mistakes included the Berlin Wall fiasco, loss of missile in Turkey, loss of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs "invasion", teh Cuban Missile Crisis. And Vietnam.
Any more bad presidents we can compare her to?
Wars gave stature to Wilson and FDR. Assassination gave it to Kennedy.
Nobody has much to say about Coolidge. :(
Wasn’t it under the Woodrow Wilson Adminstration that the United League of Nations was born (now the UN), and the Federal Income Tax was implemented and the Federal Reserve Bank?
Wilson’s experience proved to be a bug, not a feature.
He was one of the worst two-term Presidents — worse than Billy-Jeff Clinton. Only reason Wilson is rated highly is that he was a history professor. History professors draw up those lists. Call it professional courtesy.
Hawaii? Hawaii? Hawaii? Hawaii. Hawa— Come on, man. I don’t even know if there’s any black people in Hawaii. What in the [beep]? HAWAII? You’re bugging the [beep] out. Barack Obama, you ain’t ready to be president. Hawaii Mother[beep]er? What is the reality in Hawa—? There’s not even no crackheads in Hawaii! There’s not even no black people. There’s not even no like — crime or, uh, uh like — Foreign policies, you all may be versed on foreign — foreign policies. You all need to get versed on black policies and youth policies. We the future. Barack, you’re bugging the [beep] out, man.
So. That was a long time ago. /s
I’m all for attacking the coverage of the experience issue as well, but this doesn’t seem like a very logical way to do it for two reasons: 1) Notions of what was considered appropriate political experience were very different a hundred years ago, and Wilson had been a prominent part of the national political landscape for over a decade when he was elected, and 2) He only won the election as part of a historical anomaly- Roosevelt forming his own party after failing to be nominated by the Republicans and siphoning off more than half the Republican vote- Wilson only received less than 42% of the popular vote, but it was enough to beat both separated halves of the Republican party. He was more handed the election through his opponents political infighting than he actually won it. Unless Hillary breaks away from the Dems and takes half their votes, I don’t really see a parallel here.
He was also a disgrace as a president, so perhaps not the best example.
Wilson and his socialist ideas were a DISASTER for the country. Do you realize that under him the 16th Amendment (income tax), the 17th Amendment (senators elected by popular vote), the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) were passe, AND the Federal Reserve was created?
Abraham Lincoln’s federal experience was a single term in the House in 1846. Never elected governor. He seems to have done OK
Theddy Roosevelt was also a two year governor.
"Wilson took personal control of negotiations with Germany, including the armistice. He issued his Fourteen Points, his view of a post-war world that could avoid another terrible conflict. He was the first President to leave the United States while still in office, going to Paris in 1919 to create the League of Nations and shape the Treaty of Versailles, with special attention on creating new nations out of defunct empires. Largely for his efforts to form the League, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919. Wilson collapsed with a debilitating stroke in 1919, as the home front saw massive strikes and race riots, and wartime prosperity turn into postwar depression.
Mrs Wilson would be at his bedside in the White House and she would inform him of the work at hand and he would whisper his response. The Vice President should have taken charge but Mrs Wilson, the de facto president would have none of that "constitutional stuff".
How about these two stunning examples of Vice Presidential candidates the Democrats have previously put forward:
1924 — Charles W. Bryan: Three years as Mayor of Lincoln, NE (1915-1917) and one year as Governor of Nebraska (1923) at the time of the 1924 presidential election.
1972 — Sargent Shriver: First Director of the Peace Corps (1961-1969). . . . . a feel good program created by his brother-in-law JFK and called by Nixon “nothing but a haven for draft dodgers”. . . . .and two years as Ambassador to France (1968 - 1970).
Foolish mortals! He was president of Princeton! He was qualified to create the world!
No offense Docs, but both Woody and FDR were disasters as President! Maybe that is not a good thing to bring up. Woody was a racist and a blatent liar on keeping the US out of WWII and FDR was a socialist and a admirer of Joe Stalin, and we are still paying for his disasterous policys!
“WOODROW WILSON WAS A TWO-YEAR GOVERNOR BEFORE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY NOMINATED HIM FOR PRESIDENT.”
And he was gawd awful as president. Do not compare him to Palin.
In the end, he stoked out and his wife ran the presidency for the last two (I think) years. She did not allow the VP to take over (as if it were her choice, but that is how it worked out).
Please, let's not compare Palin to that thug.