Quote Originally Posted by tony
For those of you who cling to the experience thing, all you have to do is look to the past and you will find your answer.

James Buchanan - Arguably the most experienced President and he essentially led the country to a Civil War (Loyal to the south and our only GAY.. yes gay president)

Richard Nixon - Probably the most experienced president of our generation and he left the presidency in shame. No explanation needed.

Andrew Johnson - 15 years of experience and pretty much killed Lincoln's legacy. The only other president to be Impeached, we know who the other is.

Now.. lets look at the flip side of that, less experience.. (And yes this is my knowledge not google search, I've become a bit of a historian as of late)

Frankin Roosevelt - One of the least experienced presidents in history, relatively new to politics and the longest serving president ever.. 4 terms and presided during WWII. Nuff said.

Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
Ulysses Grant was very inexperienced and was plagued with corruption but still made history for his efforts.
Lincoln (ironically, a politician from Illinois)
Truman
Jefferson
And Eisenhower.. all relatively new to the executive branch of government.

Kind of strange but.. when I think about it experience seems to have NOTHING to do with what makes a president great but rather how they respond to crisis within their presidency.
Good post +how ever many it's worth nowadays.

Now to add onto this topic, the fact that Hilary wanted to tell us that half of the reason why she is staying in is because Bobby Kennedy was assignated in June. I think she mentioned that because maybe she knows something we don't know

Quote Originally Posted by Some who knows what ignorant means
A person can be ignorant (not knowing some fact or idea) without being stupid (incapable of learning because of a basic mental deficiency). And those who say, “That’s an ignorant idea” when they mean “stupid idea” are expressing their own ignorance.
I just wanted to put that out there.