{"id":2101,"date":"2004-07-07T13:15:15","date_gmt":"2004-07-07T20:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/07\/the-real-reason\/"},"modified":"2004-07-07T13:15:15","modified_gmt":"2004-07-07T20:15:15","slug":"the-real-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/07\/the-real-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"The real reason"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tJohn Kerry explained the advantage he and Edwards have over the incumbent to an admiring crowd today:<\/a><\/p>\n

…we’ve got better hair.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m glad he cleared that up, because when Kerry said Edwards didn’t have enough experience to be president — just a few weeks ago — I thought he meant it. But as we can now see, it was just Kerry being Kerry.<\/p>\n

Does a freshman senator with no prior experience have what it takes to step into the Oval Office and run the Free World in the event that the president takes sick, gets shot, or has a better offer from a richer country? <\/p>\n

In general, I think the answer is probably no, and largely because of the nature of legislative experience. We typically choose governors to serve as chief executive, because their experience is so much more relevant than that of legislators, especially back-bench legislators from the minority party whose chief role is toeing the party line and doing what their committee chairs tell them to do.<\/p>\n

The joke about Edwards is that Kerry wanted someone with more experience, but Dan Quayle turned him down.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Kerry explained the advantage he and Edwards have over the incumbent to an admiring crowd today: …we’ve got better hair. I’m glad he cleared that up, because when Kerry said Edwards didn’t have enough experience to be president — just a few weeks ago — I thought he meant it. But as we can … Continue reading “The real reason”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-xT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}