Who happens to be a Democrat to boot.

Someone is about to get paddled by the Obama faithful in the Democrat party.

[Illinois Governor Rod] Blagojevich, who supports favorite son U.S. Sen. Barack Obama for president, today criticized Democrats for belittling the experience of Republican U.S. Sen. John McCain’s running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and took a jab at the work of legislators who run for executive positions…
Blagojevich, who said he spent two summers after high school working on the Alaska pipeline, readily defended the executive experience that governors have in contrast to legislators when it comes to being presidential material.

“I would hope the Democrats wouldn’t say that about a governor,” Blagojevich, a former state legislator and congressman, told [radio host Spike] O’Dell of criticism that the first-term Palin lacks experience.

“The reality is, governors every day have to make decisions for better or for worse. That’s part of the job. It’s an executive position. And it’s a position that is like what you’re going to do when you’re president. Legislators, they do different things. They debate and they pass their bills back and forth,” he said.

“But governors make decisions, and I think it’s a tactical mistake for the Democrats to question Gov. Palin’s experience when she’s been a governor of a state,” he said. “I don’t think the size of the state is relevant. It’s the kinds of decisions you have to make as governor. They (Democrats) should focus on the issues and why the policies of President Bush ought to be changed and I think that’s what will help Obama win.”

Blagojevich is undoubtedly correct in his analysis as every elected President since JFK who wasn’t a Vice President first have been a Governor.  In fact, while a Senator will undoubtedly be President this year, it hasn’t been since JFK that a Senator has been elected President.

Since the beginning of the country, some 15 Senators (Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, William Harrison, Tyler, Pierce, Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Benjamin Harrison, Harding, Truman, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Nixon) have been elected President and 18 Governors (Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe
Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, James Polk, Andrew Johnson, Rutherford B Hayes, William McKinley, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, James Earl Carter, Ronald Wilson Reagan, William Jefferson Clinton and George Walker Bush ).

Meaning that, historically, more Governors have convinced voters that they have the qualifications to lead this country than Senators.