Pat Robertson, a former presidential candidate who never served as a mayor or governor, now says that only big city mayors and governors are qualified to be president.
The assertion is rottenly specious on its face – obviously serving just to trash the legitimacy of President Obama while implicitly boosting the supposedly essential qualifications of the two current Republican frontrunners – but it’s perhaps worth noting that Abraham Lincoln (and for that matter, most presidents over the course of American history) also never served as a mayor or governor.
