Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"How would they manage if they didn't have servants, minions, etc., at their beck and call? Could they mess up boiling water if they tried to cook a Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Dinner? Or be unable to figure out which is the hot water and which is the cold water on the washing machine? Or find their way anywhere without chauffeurs, guides, etc.?

"Before his election, George Washington was a surveyor in what was then wilderness, doing the complicated mathematical work necessary to make straight lines on a map correspond to the undulations of countryside. John Adams was an attorney; he defended the British soldiers accused of murder in the Boston Massacre because he believed everyone deserved a good defense. More recently, Harry Truman was a haberdasher -- he could hand-tailor and fit a good men's suit, and was always stylish and perfectly well dressed -- and Dwight D. Eisenhower was a farmer and a general, who understood strategy, supply lines, and outthinking the Nazis. John Kennedy, when in the Navy and his PT boat was destroyed, got the sailors on the boat to an island, found ways for them to survive, and sent coconuts with messages on them of their location out to help people find them. Lyndon Johnson was a small-town Texas attorney without a pedigree. Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer (and still is a peanut farmer, as well as a house builder.)

"Whereas the current crop couldn't cross Fifth Avenue without limousines equipped with military-grade navigation systems."

-- twistedchick, 2017-12-18, after it was revealed that none of the Trumps managed to file an absentee ballot correctly