{"id":11468,"date":"2010-06-18T06:23:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T11:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11468"},"modified":"2010-06-18T06:23:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T11:23:49","slug":"the-buck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11468","title":{"rendered":"The Buck"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Malcolm in the LATimes <\/em>h notes for the benefit of his audience<\/a>…<\/p>\n

…exactly what all of us were telling the nation two years ago; that legislators’ experience is lousy preparation for the Presidency:<\/p>\n

American voters have taken many zigs and zags over the years when choosing their country’s chief executive.<\/p>\n

But one of the amazing consistencies is: They prefer chief executives in the executive office. Five of the last six presidents have been executives — four governors and one sitting vice president.<\/p>\n

The only exception is the current incumbent, Barack Obama<\/strong>, who as his bipartisan critics tried to point out in 2007-08, had never even run a candy store, let alone a country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Huh.\u00a0 Do tell, L. A. <\/em>freaking Times<\/em>?\u00a0 Do you finally think so?<\/p>\n

He was a law lecturer<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…which was put out there as a key qualification.\u00a0 “Constitutional Law is great <\/em>background for a president!”, they say.\u00a0 To which I, and a growing plurality of the American people, respond the President doesn’t need to litigate the constitution; he just needs to follow <\/em>it.\u00a0 The President needs to know the Constitution exactly as well as a fairly competent policeman to do his job.<\/p>\n

a state senator and, briefly, a U.S. senator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And it looks like the American people are finally starting to catch up with the GOP:<\/p>\n

Overall, a new Rasmussen Reports poll<\/a> indicated Wednesday, only 42% of Americans currently approve of Obama’s job, while 57% disapprove. Or compare Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s<\/strong> 66% state approval for his hands-on spill work vs 60% disapproval for the presidential visits, all four of them now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jindal is a great comparison of the difference between a real executive – someone on whose desk the buck stops, someone who makes decisions and gets things done – and a fake one like Obama, who is seemingly more into<\/p>\n

Fact is, the two main political parties didn’t give American voters a….<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

… choice in 2008, nominating legislators for three of the tickets’ four spots — Obama, Joe Biden<\/strong> and John McCain<\/strong>. The fourth — gee, her name escapes us right now — was an elected top state executive, who seemed to gather more public attention than any of the others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pity it was the wrong kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrew Malcolm in the LATimes h notes for the benefit of his audience… …exactly what all of us were telling the nation two years ago; that legislators’ experience is lousy preparation for the Presidency: American voters have taken many zigs and zags over the years when choosing their country’s chief executive. But one of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11478,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11468\/revisions\/11478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}