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jg10003

(974 posts)
Mon Jan 25, 2016, 03:53 AM Jan 2016

Trivia 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.

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Trivia question: Which president was the most experienced when he took office? (Original Post) jg10003 Jan 2016 OP
Whoa. Very interesting! kath Jan 2016 #1
None of them worth a quarter brush Jan 2016 #2
Herbert Hoover had tons of experience, too. n/t. Ken Burch Jan 2016 #3
Hoover was very effective as an administrator, but he never held an elective office sarge43 Jan 2016 #4
New Bernie Talking Point? billhicks76 Jan 2016 #5
Sarah Palin posts on DU? (nt) jeff47 Jan 2016 #10
??? billhicks76 Jan 2016 #17
Neither does your post. (nt) jeff47 Jan 2016 #18
Really? You Don't Understand 911? billhicks76 Jan 2016 #19
Bernie is the more experienced one, even Hillary admits it. Motown_Johnny Jan 2016 #13
9-11 AND a gender. Don't you forget it! eom Betty Karlson Jan 2016 #15
LBJ cloudbase Jan 2016 #6
Washington was pretty experienced by 1789 (nt) Recursion Jan 2016 #7
George H. W. Bush had quite a resume before becoming President Art_from_Ark Jan 2016 #8
I remember Pat Paulsen reciting his resume and concluding Va Lefty Jan 2016 #9
FDR, c. 1944 OilemFirchen Jan 2016 #11
I have to say Jefferson. bornskeptic Jan 2016 #12
Ooooh, that must leave a stinging mark or too. Betty Karlson Jan 2016 #14
So, you're saying we shouldn't support the guy who has been in Congress for over a quarter century? Freddie Stubbs Jan 2016 #16

sarge43

(28,939 posts)
4. Hoover was very effective as an administrator, but he never held an elective office
Mon Jan 25, 2016, 06:40 AM
Jan 2016

until the presidency.

 

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)
5. New Bernie Talking Point?
Mon Jan 25, 2016, 06:53 AM
Jan 2016

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.

 

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)
19. Really? You Don't Understand 911?
Tue Jan 26, 2016, 01:34 AM
Jan 2016

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)
13. Bernie is the more experienced one, even Hillary admits it.
Mon Jan 25, 2016, 12:27 PM
Jan 2016
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/21/politics/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-establishment-iran-normalization/index.html

^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.



Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
8. George H. W. Bush had quite a resume before becoming President
Mon Jan 25, 2016, 08:47 AM
Jan 2016

Bush served as US Congressman, head of the US Liaison Office in China, CIA director, and Vice President

bornskeptic

(1,330 posts)
12. I have to say Jefferson.
Mon Jan 25, 2016, 11:42 AM
Jan 2016

state legislator
member of Continental Congresses
Minister to France
Governor of Virginia
Secretary of State
Vice-President

 

Betty Karlson

(7,231 posts)
14. Ooooh, that must leave a stinging mark or too.
Mon Jan 25, 2016, 12:30 PM
Jan 2016

* 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.

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