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[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

It's not the background, it's the idea of running for President without bothering to, say, be a governor or Senator first.

There is a craft to politics, to understanding how one accomplishes things by building bridges and consensus, by working with varied groups of people and elected officials with their own concerns, petty and profound, that one doesn't learn well from the outside.

If you look at those who have come to it without that training and background, people like Eisenhower and Hoover, you see administrations that simply struggle and accomplish little or nothing. The Rockefellers, Roosevelts, and Kennedys all started below President and worked up (granted, only two of those three made it, but none of them though it was below them to learn the trade).

So Old Money is better than New Money.