Most important presidential characteristic....
We want is someone who can think logically, some to the right answer under stressful conditions….now I disagree that “experience” is a necessary prerequisite to achieve the latter, but it can help. BUT as I stated, there are plenty of examples of people with lots of experience who also turn out to make the wrong decisions- remember Biden wanted to split Iraq up into 4 partitions (his webpage has taken down that plan by the way).

The Founders most definitely considered experienced for example (they set a minimum age requirement for president) but only in relation to being righteous There has been plenty of leaders in the old world that had tons of experience but were abhorrent to the Founders. They fully understood that they were creating a presidential republic and not a parliamentary democracy.

People have a problem with Palin and Obama due to their lack of experience. I cite a recent example of a man from a small town who was a haberdasher and considered too “naive” and “ignorant” –excuse me I am thinking of the Nobel Prize Committee member who used those words to criticize American writers…I digress…

Back to the haberdasher, his name was Harry Truman and even though he had no idea of the biggest US govt military plan (at its peak The Manhattan Project was using 1/7th of the entire electricity generation of the USA), he was able to think clearly, act decisively and end the WWII. It was by no means an easy decision. In fact from three years after WWII till 50yrs after, Truman was criticized for dropping the bomb. From Time Magazine in 1948 to CBS (Rather), ABC (Jennings) 50yrs later many people thought it wrong.

The estimates of the # of Americans that would die trying to take the main island of Japan ranged from 200k to 1mln.

Do you know what the country would have done to a president if after losing 1mln lives the public found out about a single weapon that could have prevented all those deaths?