Comments on: Ranking experience in former Presidents and current candidates

By: Real Estate Blog - The math behind experience

Real Estate Blog - The math behind experience — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:57:41 +0000

[...] Ranking experience in former Presidents and current candidates [...]

By: scratchman

scratchman — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:18:45 +0000

“That’s why I think the GOP has their ticket upside down. Palin would make a better president than McCain.”

Ditto.

By: Joel Harris

Joel Harris — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:09:32 +0000

The point that the creator of the spreadsheet was trying to make is that there is not a particularly good coordination between “experience” and whether or not a President is considered “good”.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:02:20 +0000

P.S. - Woodrow Wilson’s experience conveniently falls in the middle between Obama and Hillary… how interesting??

By: Alexander

Alexander — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:57:35 +0000

I’m pretty sure that if the southern states were allowed to secede from the union… as was (and is) their Constitutional right the civil war could have been avoided.

Was James Buchanan our “worst” president? Or did he not take any major courses of action… to me, that would be a great president.

I’m fairly certain that Woodrow Wilson was one of our worst presidents… very Hitler-esque (but pre-Hitler).

By: Harl Delos

Harl Delos — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 03:57:19 +0000

According to that spreadsheet, James Buchanan is #4 in experience - but he’s generally considered to be the worst president in our country’s history.

On the other hand, Abraham Lincoln is #42.

To a certain extent, times make the man. I don’t think James Buchanan could have avoided the Civil War, no matter what he did. OTOH, Harry Truman was considered to be highly unqualified when he was elected vice-president. I wouldn’t call him a great president, but he was certainly wasn’t the worst.

Judgment and temperament are off the spreadsheet, obviously, because how would you rate them? But they are important.

And presidents quickly gain experience. There’s a story about Winston Churchill insulting a woman. “You’re ugly,” he said, and she replied, “You’re drunk!” “Yes,” Churchill agreed, “but in the morning, I shall be sober, and you’ll still be ugly.”

That’s why I think the GOP has their ticket upside down. Palin would make a better president than McCain.