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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Don’t be silly. Being a constitutional lawyer might be a good credential for an assistant Attorney General nominee. Four years in the Senate — the last two of which were mostly spent on the campaign trail — is likewise scant preparation for the Oval Office.
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The point was that Obama ran against multiple candidates with much more experience than he had; ordinarily that would have put him at a prohibitive disadvantage. But he alone had opposed the Iraq war from the start, giving him his opening.
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What about JFK? W.Bush? Carter? Clinton? Lincoln? Seem similar experience to Obama.
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