Presidents with less or equal national experience than Obama.

[Drunken Irishman]

And national means either in the house or senate.

Abraham Lincoln - 2 years in the US House.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - 0 years in the House or Senate, did spend 7 years Assistant Secretary of the Navy under Woodrow Wilson.
Thomas Jefferson - 4 years as VP.
Theodore Roosevelt - .5 years as VP.
Woodrow Wilson - 2 years in the US House.
Andrew Jackson - 3 years in the Senate, 1.75 years in the House.
Dwight D. Eisenhower - 0 years of national experience.
James Monroe - 0 years of national ELECTED experience.
Grover Cleveland - 0 years of national ELECTED experience.
Ronald Reagan - 0 years of national experience.
John Quincy Adams - 5.25 years of national ELECTED experience.
William Howard Taft - 0 years of national ELECTED experience.
Bill Clinton - 0 years of national experience.
George W. Bush - 0 years of national experience.
Rutherford B. Hayes - 2.5 years in the US House.
Chester A. Arthur - .5 years of VP.
Herbert Hoover - 0 years of national ELECTED experience.
Jimmy Carter - 0 years of national experience.
Calvin Coolidge - 2.5 years as VP.
Zachary Taylor - 0 years of national experience.
Ulysses S. Grant - 0 years of national experience.

All these candidates spent equal or less time in the US Senate and House as Barack Obama. A few had cabinet experience and even fewer had vice presidential experience. Notice the top of the list and then look at those who didn't make the list:

Warren G. Harding
James Buchanan
Franklin Pierce
Andrew Johnson
William H. Harrison

All considered to be 5 of the worst presidents in American history.

[Luftmensch067]

1. Nice work!

Another post I'll be sharing with non-DU readers!

[stillcool]

2. thanks..