Posted under Rants and Raves
My wife is an amazing woman. She’s well read, well researched, compassionate and knows exactly how to punch below the belt. Case in point. She’s been researching how experience has played into the presidency over the years since Regan’s first term in 1981, and this is what she found.
- Regan was less experienced then Carter
- Regan was less experienced then Mondale
- Bush HW was less experienced then Dukakis
- Clinton was less experienced then Bush HW
- Clinton was less experienced then Dole
- Bush W was less experienced then Gore
- Bush W was less experienced then Kerry
- Obama is less experienced then McCain
So, going off of historical president, the less experienced candidates find themselves in the oval office 100% of the time since 1981. With the most experienced people in the current Bush administration being Cheney and Rumsfeld, it would seem that experience directly equates to corruption and failure. Unless of course Republicans are willing to agree that Carter and Mondale would have been a better choice then Regan, Dukakis would have been a more sensible president then HW Bush and that Gore and Kerry would have been better choices then W (we’re going to ignore that last one so the elephants can save face) . Therefore, if we want to continue along with this experience argument, let’s be honest that it’s a reaction to rationalize party support this election season rather than a mandatory trait for the past 27 years.
I’ve never really liked team sports. It’s just not my thing. Sports should include hitting, kicking, throwing weighted objects at unsuspecting adversaries and pretty much engaging in anti-social behaviour. So while the Olympics might have originally fit the bill when they involved lions and Christians (I might be embellishing on the cast, but it sounded good) they’ve mostly degenerated into corporate symbols silk screened onto spandex stretched over androgynous women and narcissistic men. That is, until I was introduced to 
