If Experience was Necessary, Why Didn't the Founding Fathers Include it?

G.W. Bush had experience and it didn't help him one bit lol.

The Founders most certainly valued experience.

Read the Constitution. The President is chosen not by popular vote, but by the Electoral College. Also according to the Constitution, the Electoral College is not chosen by ANY specific means, but in a manner that the states themselves choose. Think about that. It means, as observed in Bush vs. Gore, individual citizens have NO Constitutional right to vote for the President. If your state gave the governor the power to appoint them without any input from anyone, the USSC couldn't say that's wrong.

Why did they do this? Same reason they SPECIFICALLY gave the selection of Senators to the legislatures of the states. Not a delegable power, but the legislature had to decide who their Senators would be. Those Senators would sit for six years, not a mere two like the possibly total amateurs the People chose.

You are greatly underestimating the value the Founders placed on wisdom and experience, and thoughtful reflection.

Experience is a very important factor when selecting the president.

Bush Junior looked like he had it (same as McCain does) but he ended in the swamp because he couldn't make a single correct decision .

Wisdom and open mind of the president comes before his experience as a success factor for leading the nation.

Any of the founding fathers will make a lousy president if he is elected today. World is changing and young and new blood is what the US needs

Does "heck of a job Brownie" mean anything to you?

See what happens when the staggering lack of experience only cripples an already inexperienced administration? People die. Lots of people die.

As a democrat, I did look at Obama's lack of experience as an issue, but he made a great decision in vetting and vp-ing Joe Biden.

John McCain does not have much experience that makes him qualified to be commander in chief either (oh, I'm sorry he was a POW so how dare I say anything derogatory about him), and Sara Palin, until a couple of days ago I had never even heard of her... who the hell is this soccer mom who is going to be one heart attack of melanoma away from leading this great country?

We're in for a ride, thank god Obama is going to win, obviously.

I am an ardent McCain supporter and I actually have to agree with you on this point. The founding fathers wanted the President to be a citizen executive, not a career politician. This is the way politics is supposed to work - one of the folks who knows how the government's actions affect life on the ground gets into office, enacts the will of the people, and then goes home to continue his life. Instead, we have parasites called career politicians feeding off the trough of public taxpayer dollars and enriching themselves and their constituents while forgetting about the people who put them in power to begin with.

It is a crooked system and if there is any argument for why Obama and Palin are better than the rest, this is it.

Here is the thing about experience: Experience is the knowledge of things that have occurred and have past by. Having a lot of it is good for story telling but not important to lead a country, do you want to know why? I'll put it in a simple parable: The world turns constantly and changes every day, every hour, every minute and every second. So how can something that belongs in the past be important in a time where things change so rapidly its difficult to keep up?

So smarts and progressive ideas will always beat experience. Ergo, Obama is the better man for the job.

The founding fathers did not know how corrupt the media would become and how gullible the public has shown to be. Obama has not taken any action to acknowledge the good job our troops have done. Liberals have never given them credit for protecting us. Mistakes were made but now things are different and I'm voting for McCain because he will not quit like Obama and Biden want to do.

George Will wrote a column that appeared in the San Diego Unioon-Tribune this morning, where he cited that the word "experience" appeared 85 times in the Federalist Papers. And, most of the time the context was that our political leaders gain wisdom through experience.

No, experience doesn't man a leader will do a great job. But it's a good indicator that they will.

And there are a lot of things the constitution doesn't "require" a president to be, but that we certainly want. For instance, we'd probably not a want a president to believe he was a chimpanzee.. but it's not a legal requirement.

You are absolutely correct. Rhetoric has nothing to do with the constitution, but neither do most voters. They wouldn't recognize an amendment if it sprouted arms and legs, walked up to them and began reciting itself.

Very little brain goes into most people's choices in this country. How do you think we had Bush for 8 years?

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