Obama is a former state legislator, former U.S. senator, and former two-term president. He’s also a Nobel laureate and best-selling author. Walker, meanwhile, played football and tackled business ventures he's spent months exaggerating. (via MaddowBlog)
After conceding that Walker was a fine athlete, Obama questioned whether that made him qualified to make critically important decisions in the U.S. Senate. “Let’s say you’re at the airport,” the Democrat said, “and you see Mr. Walker and you say, ‘Hey, there’s Herschel Walker. Heisman winner. Let’s have him fly the plane.’ You probably wouldn’t say that.
Obama added, “Or let’s say you go to the hospital, and you say, ‘That Walker guy, he sure could tear it up at Sanford Stadium. Give him a scalpel.’ You wouldn’t say that. You’d ask — at least, I would — ‘Has he done surgery before?’”the campaign event — and apparently came to the attention of the Georgia Republican himself. He may not have fully understood what the former president was saying.said
, “I wouldn’t let him fly the plane either. But I can promise you, if they see me and Barack Obama standing there, they’d probably pick me to fly the plane.” It seems he might’ve missed the point. Obama was making the case that qualifications matter — in airplane cockpits, hospitals, legislative bodies — and Walker is woefully unprepared. The Republican seemed to argue that hypothetical people, looking for someone to fly a plane, might prefer a former athlete who isn’t a pilot over a former president who isn’t a pilot. That’s really not what this conversation is all about.
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