In fact, we need someone who is a young 38; someone who lived in a college dorm not too long ago and who has had to worry about making ends meet. This person may have had a part-time job while in high school and recently saw adult co-workers struggling to financially survive. If we are talking about a woman, she may have faced an unplanned pregnancy, and, if she lived in the right state, she was grateful for the choices she had. If we\u2019re talking about a man whose partner had an unplanned pregnancy, he may have suffered through the indignities of a state with few choice options.<\/p>\n

This 38-year-old knows how to code and is a video game wizard. But he\/she has gained enough self-control to not get addicted to these games, to sports fantasy games, or to drugs, including alcohol.<\/p>\n

Not too long ago, this potential candidate may have been a counselor in an inner-city camp, or a \u201cvolunteer\u201d in Teach-for-America, or actually had a teaching job in a stressful situation. He\/she then went on to law school and accumulated more financial debt than ever expected.<\/p>\n

This potential candidate knows the law very well and has practiced virtually every kind from landlord-tenant cases, to copyright infringement, to eminent domain cases, to tax laws and cases that come before family court.<\/p>\n

This person is obviously very bright, has a good sense of humor, is empathetic and is not self-promoting. This person once considered going into politics, but found the ways in which people rise in politics, particularly by having to raise so much money, to be unsavory.<\/p>\n

This person would never expect to be on President Obama\u2019s short list, and that\u2019s part of why he or she would be so good. This would be a great candidate, or if the Republicans insisted, a great sacrificial lamb who could teach all of us an important lesson or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is not complicated. Here are two reasons why it would be an excellent idea for President Obama to nominate someone approximately 38 years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2119,767,162,1988,29,572,1683,1868,273,2347,10,1929,2451],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n