2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTrivia question: Which president was the most experienced when he took office?
Answer: Richard Nixon; the only president to have served as a congressman, senator, and vice-president.
Other very experienced presidents include:
* Buchanan; 10 years a congressman, 4 years ambassador to Russia, 10 years a senator, 4 years secretary of state, 4 years as ambassador to England.
*Andrew Johnson; 10 years a congressman, 4 years governor of Tennessee, 5 years a senator, 3 years military governor of Tennessee.
*Martin Van Buren; senator, governor of New York, ambassador to England, Secretary of State, Vice-President.
Draw your own conclusions.
kath
(10,565 posts)brush
(53,475 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)sarge43
(28,939 posts)until the presidency.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)She will make the stale, disingenuous argument...911 911 911. The world is forced to change!!! And people wonder why so many people think 911 was an inside job? It's used as the excuse to sign up for voluntary slavery.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)That makes no sense.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)billhicks76
(5,082 posts)It's used as the excuse for us all always having to completely change our lives. And not only give up all our rights but also to simply end discussion. And it's what the "experienced" candidates always hide behind when they aren't wrapping themselves in the flag. Many of us have serious questions about that day and the many inconsistencies leading up to it and why we aren't allowed to see what the Saudis knew. 911 went way beyond just an attack. Our government cannabalisticaly attacked it's own people afterwords. The #1 use of energy, time and intelligence has been to target average Americans by the hundreds of thousands for drugs and allow police departments both federal and local to fleece the public with their new powers. Most people realize this is fraudulent and the War On Terror was a cleaver rebranding of the failed and unpopular war on drugs. The amount of people imprisoned or disenfranchised economically is evident of a modern day form of slavery and many more people than someone like you realized this a while ago. We don't need experienced politicians...they screwed up our system already...we need those speaking truth to power who want to work to change the corruption.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)^snip^
"I just don't understand what that means. He's been in Congress, he's been elected to office a lot longer than I have," Clinton said.
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)He also served in congress, the senate and VP.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Bush served as US Congressman, head of the US Liaison Office in China, CIA director, and Vice President
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)"The man can't hold a job!"
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)Two-term State Senator
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Governor
Three-term President
bornskeptic
(1,330 posts)state legislator
member of Continental Congresses
Minister to France
Governor of Virginia
Secretary of State
Vice-President
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)* still chuckling here * Of course, there is no suggestion that Clinton is as bad as any of those presidents, but it shows that the status quo is not always the best platform for a candidate.
The 90-ies are over. Clinton's time, the Golden Age of Third Way, has come and gone. She's a follower, not a leader, and what she follows is rapidly becoming a relic from a bygone era. She's not the future. She is hardly the present anymore.