Somehow this article never asks whether the traditional qualifications were actually useful, whether maybe our experience with a president whose qualifications were "playing a rich person on TV" and "shouting on twitter" has some important lessons.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/nos-44-and-45-broke-the-mold-what-does-that-mean-for-the-future-of-the-presidency/2019/05/18/97d64320-77e9-11e9-bd25-c989555e7766_story.html?utm_term=.bd1db494b04f …
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Hear! Hear! Heer!
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Obama was inexperienced as well as black. This would have made his nomination impossible if all his primary opponents had not signaled their approval for a very unpopular Republican President’s very unpopular war in Iraq.
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But Obama was black as well as inexperienced, which would have made his election unlikely if the Incumbent Republican President in 2008 had been less unpopular. A Republican might have succeeded Obama after 2016 in any event...
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Right.
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