David Broder at the Washington Post discusses the lack of "executive credentials" on the Democratic side, occasioned by Mitt Romney's victory in Michigan.
John Kennedy, Broder points out, was the last sitting sitting senator elected to the presidency.
While Romney, Huckabee, Giuliani, and McCain (the latter commanded the largest squadron in the Navy air wing) have spent time at the top of large organizations, among the Democrats:
the three current and former senators who have survived the shakeout process -- Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards -- have not a day of chief executive experience behind them.Indeed, Broder, no ideologue, suggests that
But the very failings [Clinton] and Obama acknowledged earlier in the debate, when apologizing for the words and actions of their supporters that had inflamed racial tensions in the campaign, showed the difference between discussing leadership and practicing it.
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