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In reply to the discussion: No Amateurs as Democratic Presidential Candidates, Please! [View all]NNadir
(33,523 posts)...amateur, the worst President being the highly experienced James Buchanan who had been Secretary of State, Senator, Ambassador to Great Britain (when that was important), Ambassador to Russia, and Congressman.
The rank amateur who succeeded him was Abraham Lincoln.
We're going to need another Lincoln to be sure, and I'm personally disgusted with billionaires running for political office to be sure, but Obama, although a Senator, was in his first term as such, and was somewhat obscure in the beginning.
What he brought to the office was very much like what Lincoln brought, high intelligence, humor, grace, humility honesty and above all, high character.
I'm looking for another Obama. The order should have been reversed, although truth be told, Obama succeeded another President in the same class as Pierce, Buchanan, Calvin Coolidge, Harding and Trump as worst of the worst.