There's already been a lot of talk about experience in this campaign, and, post-Palin, it just went up a notch. But between exchanges of fire about executive experience versus foreign policy experience versus Washington experience, Richard Reeves pokes his head over the barricades to ask the obvious question: no matter how much experience you've had, is anyone ever ready to be president?
His answer is no: I doubt that anyone ever was or ever will be. The job is sui generis. The presidency is an act of faith.
• posted by Claudia Jean
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