Tuesday, August 30, 2011  Catch of the Day  Steve Benen is
unimpressed with Mitt Romney's new attack line against Rick
Perry, which is that Perry (well, actually, I guess, unnamed
politicians) are "career politicians." And we don't need any of
those right now. But Benen continues: Nice catch!  Of course, as
regular readers know I'm 100% in favor of career politicians
holding political office. Especially the presidency; it takes
real political skills to handle the position. I have nothing at
all against a system which allows new people to jump ahead a few
rungs on the ladder; there's no reason for everyone to have to
work their way up from city council or school board or whatever.
But, yes, I do believe that there really are specific political
skills, both campaigning and governing, and that I'd like to see
a candidate demonstrate mastery of them before thinking about
the top job.     1. Agreed. Do you think in hindsight that
President Obama had enough of those skills or would he have been
a better President i