And in the playbook that is the constant guide of the maturity of Obama's judgment, a distraction can never be allowed.
No doubt they have already noticed that the two do not see eye to eye, for while it is helpful for a company to call on both the maturity and judgment of age and the drive and creativity of youth, it can be tricky to harness such strengths to a common purpose.
The US, the UK and France are now hostage to their Polish and Baltic states' Nato-allied governments – the maturity and judgment of whose leaders I have no great confidence in.
The State reports that South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Dick Harpootlian suggested Haley's remarks reflected "a lack of judgment and maturity".
The point of reading these books is not to convey any particular orthodoxy, but to help students acquire the independence of judgment that personal maturity and political responsibility require.
"To say that I am disappointed with the judgment and maturity of the College Republicans, however, would be a tremendous understatement," McShane wrote.
The genre is so familiar to local artists that small town or rural coming of age stories – teen tragedies involving extreme lapses of judgment en route to hard-won maturity – have become something of a cliche.
"He displayed abominably poor judgment and the maturity of a 14-year-old boy, both of which render him completely unsuitable for service in this extremely challenging job that requires someone of a much higher personal and professional caliber than Mr. Weiner," Beth White said on Facebook.
As the United States Supreme Court has recognized in Miller v. Alabama and Graham v. Florida, and everyone who has experience with them knows, children do not have the appreciation of risk, the self-control, the judgment or the overall maturity of adults.
He lacked the maturity and judgment that come with age and experience.
