The Sunday New York Times devoted an entire op-ed page to the question “Are We Experienced?” that readers might consider exactly what life experiences are useful preparation for the presidency. (Given the current situation on Wall Street, I think we can all agree that an MBA from Harvard is pretty useless.) Among the contributors was our own Lincoln Chafee who discussed the Senate, “One of the first things I did upon joining the Senate was to reread the Constitution…”.

That’s reread. Law school grads and political science majors have read the Constitution, but Linc studied Classics at Brown, then got an advanced degree at horseshoeing school, all of which led naturally to the mayor’s office in Warwick. So I’m guessing he read the Constitution the first time around just to be a really good mayor. Compare that to the current president who reveals daily that he has never read this same document, nor had it explained to him. He heard the phrase ‘Commander in Chief’ and just ran with it.

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