[JohnBrowdie]

your list is intended to deceive. remove from that list the men that were vice president or governor after they were senators, and your list (like your argument) evaporates. although if you want to hang your hat on JFK and BHO, knock yourself out.

the point is that it's difficult for sitting senators to get elected president. the office just doesn't lend itself to executive preparation. try not to freak out over this simple truth.

[SoConPubbie]

your list is intended to deceive. remove from that list the men that were vice president or governor after they were senators, and your list (like your argument) evaporates. although if you want to hang your hat on JFK and BHO, knock yourself out.

the point is that it's difficult for sitting senators to get elected president. the office just doesn't lend itself to executive preparation. try not to freak out over this simple truth.

B.S. again.

Your post forced me to re-double my research, accordingly, there was actually 18, not 16, who were not Governors or Generals(I'm being generous here again).

Some were Senators, some were congressmen, and the rest were something else.

The one thing they had in common, none of them had Executive Experience related to being President.

1. James Monroe
2. John Adams
3. James Madison
4. Zachary Taylor
5. Millard Fillmore
6. Franklin Pierce
7. James Buchanan
8. Abraham Lincoln
9. Chester A. Arthur
10. Benjamin Harrison
11. Warren G. Harding
12. Herbert Hoover
13. Harry S. Truman
14. John F. Kennedy
15. Lyndon B. Johnson
16. Richard M. Nixon
17. Gerald Ford
18. George H.W. Bush