What Qualifies either Obama or Hillary to be considered for President?
Blondey asked:
(Please don’t make this question about Bush – Just Answer the question)
The 2008 presidential race is off and running. It is popular to bemoan the lack of qualified candidates in the race. I wholeheartedly disagree. Many of the candidates have much valued experience in business, military and government. In 1984, Mitt Romney founded Bain Capital, one of the nation’s most successful venture capital and investment companies. Bain Capital helped launch hundreds of companies on a successful course, including Staples and Domino’s Pizza. Like Rudy Giuliani who was mayor of New York City, Romney also has executive experience as Governor of Massachusetts. John McCain was an officer in the military and is the senior senator from Arizona serving since 1987. All three of the declared republican front runners have very thick resumes as you should when applying for the most powerful executive position known to man.
Imagine if the republican front runner was a new member of congress with no military, business or executive experience. People would rightly challenge his/her lack of credentials. Likewise, suppose the Democrat front runners were Barak Hussein Osama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Past Presidents;
Bush 2 – Executive experience as twice elected Governor of Texas. Business Experience. Military experience flying Jets in the Guard.
Clinton – Executive experience as Governor of Arkansas.
Bush 1 – Executive experience in Business and as head of the CIA. Served in WW2.
Reagan – Executive experience as Governor of California
Carter – Governor of Georgia. Military experience.
JFK had a thin resume but at least he served in the Military.
Hillary - ?
Obama - ?
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6 Responses to “What Qualifies either Obama or Hillary to be considered for President?”
Any American Natural Born Citizen…. can run for President of this United States!
Do you Qualify?
Thanks, RR
Hillary had a president husband - that makes her qualified to cook diner and wash cloths.as president,i see zero reason to vote for her.
as for Obama,he is a great showman,but will not ever be presidential material,even being a ex-muslim will hurt him in one way or another.
As I recall, one only has to be 35 years of age and a naturally born American citizen who has lived in the United States for 14 years.
Article II, Section One, Clause five states of the Constitution of the United States states:
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
So, where is the problem? Actually, someone who has not been exposed to Washington might make a better president.
Did you say the current President Bush was flying jets in the National Guard? Wasn’t that during that minor incursion we had in Southeast Asia, in which a lot of Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen got killed?? Sounds like he had pretty tough duty.
Both Hillary and Bark have pretty much as much experience as many past presidents. The current president’s experience as the Governor of Texas is pretty slim. By most accounts, the Governor of Texas has little more than cereminial duties. As for business experience, he has never formed a successful business, only headed already successful ones. His military experience was limited to the Air National Guard and he didn’t even keep his flying status active.
The Republican favorite, Ronnie “Poppie” Reagan came to office after a successful acting career. A declared “fiscal conservative” he managed to run up a larger national debt than all presidents before him put together and created a larger military-industrial complex in peacetime than was needed for every war fought before he rose to “power”.
The chief executive of the nation is aided by enough advisors that even an idiot could run the country with some success. Luckily, the president is limited to only eight years in office, by which time the weaknesses of even a very popular president begin to show through.
Of all the candidates running, Hillary is the only one that has actually lived in the White House. If elected, perhaps she’ll bring back some of the china.
While I probably wouldn’t vote for Obama and definitely not for Hillary, I fail to see why being a state senator is a lesser qualification than being mayor of a large city (Giuliani) or governor (Romney). Care to enlighten us?
“We are the President !!!!!