No Experience Required

Well, it's official......! Specifically, President Obama's nomination of Elena Kagan for a seat on the U.S Supreme Court makes it official. It is now perfectly acceptable to nominate and potentially hire a person for a position in which they have absolutely no experience. One would think that if you hire a person to perform an important job or fill an important position that they would at least have some experience. Not so with this new nominee. While Kagan is a Princeton graduate, a University of Chicago law professor (yes, this is the same university that Barack Obama was a law professor at...) as well as the Dean of Harvard Law School and a Solicitor General, there is one glaring thing missing. She has NEVER, I repeat, NEVER been an judge anywhere in any court!! Never has she donned the black judicial robes and sat in judgment of even the lowliest lawbreakers or those seeking even the lowest level of civil judgment. And now, our illustrious president has nominated her for the highest level seat a judge can sit on in this country. Am I the only one that sees a major problem with this?
Imagine if you needed open-heart surgery. Now, imagine that the doctor that was going to conduct that surgery on you had NEVER done one before but had only taught about it! How comfortable would you feel in letting this doctor near you with a scalpel? I would venture to guess that not many people would be at ease with this. This situation is no different in the respect that Supreme Court justices set judicial precedent and decision making for the rest of the entire country. Do you feel comfortable with Kagan donning the black robes and making decisions in a position in which she has never even acted in the slightest judicial manner? I certainly don't.
Perhaps it has to do with her being connected with the Chicago political machine via Obama. Or perhaps, Obama himself truly sees no problem with nominating someone for the loftiest and most prestigious position in the legal field in spite of the fact that the nomineee has as much experience being a judge as I do. (That would be none by the way..) After all, Obama himself was elected to the highest executive position in the country without having any executive experience whatsoever as well!! So I guess that job experience really isn't necessary!
On a related note, I am applying for the post of U.S. Surgeon General tomorrow.....I'm sure I'll be successful!