[old curmudgeon]

The founders expected that ordinary people would become president, that congressmen would be ordinary people and that they would return to their private life when finished serving.

The idea that one must be a professional pol to serve as president was completely contrary to their thinking.

By the standard of the twit who thinks Trump is unprepared, George Washington was not prepared to be the general who defeated Cornwallis. Neither was General Greene nor any of the others.

A bunch of farmers. Not smart enough to fight, much less to form a government that would be the best to live under for over 200 years.

[jazminerose]

Yes!!! You are so right! Serving in Congress was something a good citizen did out of patriotism as a short term sacrifice.

The reason the capitol is built in a swamp was to make it uncomfortable in the summer. The whole job was meant to be unappealing but necessary. Our Founding Fathers did not want a nation run by career politicians slopping at the public trough for life.

They would be mortified at the likes of a Joe Biden— never held a real job, sat in the Senate for 128 years—exactly what they wanted to avoid.

[Flaming Conservative]

Tell it!