You got me. I knew it wouldn't be Sarah, but I had no idea.

So, Teddy Roosevelt. I guess he turned out to be a good vp with little 'experience'.

A little historical note: TR, fresh from his Rough Rider days, was elected Governor of New York, but the corrupt BSDs that ran the state didn't like him meddling in their business so they recommended him for McKinley's 2nd term VP in place of the incumbent. How exactly they did that is hazy, but with TR, McKinley won another term. But he was shot a few months later and TR became president. And he was a damn good one, even though he wasn't a scumbag lawyer in the Senate!

I don't know how it came about, but we have been fooled by lawyers into believing that we need lawyers in every single aspect of our lives including who we place in high office. We know they mess up everything they touch and that they have made everything (think tax code, for example) so bloated and complicated that we think we need them to figure it out for us. Wasn't THAT self-serving!

I say it is time we cut our dependence on LAWYERS! Americans are really quite capable of determining what is right and wrong without their meddling. Let's cut our addiction to foreign oil AND LAWYERS!

Fooled me too. I knew it wasn't Sarah, but I guess my history is a little rusty. So we did it once, we can do it again. Go Sarah!!

I did not know that! That should lay to rest the whacky notion that you have to be a lawyer with "x" years experience in the Senate (complicating our lives and building bureaucracies) to be #2 in the White House (or #1 if needed).

The poster says McKinley went from being a Democrat to being a Republican for his second term? Is that right?

I remembered that from H.S. history class. He had six kids, was hardly in office as veep any time at all before McKinley got shot and he became president. He is in good company on Mt. Rushmore and considered one of our greatest presidents.

maybe the reason the republicans aren't mentioning the similarity is because he was the first u.s. president to call for universal health care and national health insurance at least according to wikipedia which we all know has been infiltrated with inaccurate data.

Banjoman, I didn't say Republicans had NEVER made a mistake in judgment :) Call it a brain fart.

Similarity? Hardly. More like an odd coincidence.

No fooling! I wouldn't have guessed in a million years! Thanks for the history lesson!