"There is considerable agitation in the current presidential race about the importance of experience [View All]

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This man may have had less experience than anyone who ever ran for president. He had little education, no experience beyond his native state, no sense of foreign policy. He served a few terms in the state Legislature and one term in the U.S. House of Representatives. He lost in his single race for the U.S. Senate. He was an awkward and ungainly man who dressed unfashionably. His family life was not happy.

He had some skill at spinning words but was not esteemed by the nation's intellectual elite. He read the Bible a lot, but his religious faith was not clear. He was certainly not a pious Christian. He even went to the theater to see a comedy on Good Friday. The comedy was "Our American Cousins," and the place was Ford's Theatre.

And now almost everyone will agree that Abraham Lincoln was one of the nation's greatest presidents. So much for experience.

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