June 27, 201115 yr Looks like she is ready to take on Obama. What do you think? Has she got what it takes to get the Republican nomination? http://edition.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/06/27/bachmann.2012/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
June 29, 201115 yr Active Members Speaking generally, I don't think Congresspeople/Senators/legislators often make very good Presidents. Obviously, a lot of the same skills/attributes are required to get elected, but once in office I believe the requirements for a good elected official to act as one of several dozen (or hundred) legislators are different when you're the sole executive authority. I think Obama is an example of someone whose skills as a legislator have not translated well into his role as president (and it's small consolation for me to believe that McCain would likely have been even worse). So if I was a primary voter, I'd be less interested in someone who's public life has been spent solely in the state/federal legislature as opposed to someone with actual executive experience running a state or other large public/private body. Alan
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