If you were about to fly on a commercial jet
would you want a career pilot behind the controls or an amateur?
If you were about go have heart or brain surgery would you want a career surgeon to perform the delicate task or a newbie?
If you were contracting an electrician, plumber, roofer or HVAC specialist to rehab or repair your home would you prefer a career person with experience in these fields to work on your most expensive investment or just anybody off the street?
How many peoples favorite musician (s), actor (s) or author (s) have made a successful career out of their fields?
If you were President and wanted to negotiate a treaty or just keep cordial ties with a foreign nation would you prefer to appoint someone with a career in diplomacy or a newbie?
If you were going to attend a University and wanted a first class education in your field, would you prefer a Professor with a long and illustrious career in your chosen study or a first year teacher?
If you were a General and were going to war would you prefer career soldiers and Marines serving under you or a bunch of new draftees with no experience in combat?
If you needed to put your car in the shop for mechanical repairs or body work would you prefer a career mechanic or body technician to work on your vehicle or a first year student?
If your were going to a fine upscale restaurant would you prefer an experienced career chef to cook your well paid for meal or someone new to the culinary arts?
If you needed to have your computer repaired would prefer a career technician with extensive experience or (and I hate this phrase) some average Joe to do the work?
There isn't any field of endeavor that I can think of with perhaps the exception of criminal where the word "career" has been so denigrated as in politics and this in large part done by the corporate media, in this sense they want to criminalize government creating an ever widening gulf between the American People and "We the People."
A long and successful career in politics in and of itself should be considered a plus or advantage just as most every other field, but the corporate media is only too happy to turn that phrase on its head, making career politician a dirty word, this is especially true when they're attempting to diminish a political leader dedicated to changing the status quo.
This requires a total disconnect or willful ignorance between the "journalist" asking such a question or making the claim and that of how the balance of powers work in our nation's Capital.
If they have ever brought up that corporate media inspired pejorative term against a Republican, I can't remember when it happened.
The motivation is simple most of the corporate media doesn't want the status quo to change, they love Citizens United.
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and a failure at every career he undertook were both Republican two term presidents (though one was certainly not "elected"
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And the wreckage that they left behind was entirely predictable (if often denied by a particular party)
