What is a qualified candidate? Briefly:
I did not say she wasn't qualified at all, but that her qualifications are less than many other candidates and that she is certainly not the "most qualified candidate in modern history/our lifetimes" as her supporters love to claim.
Insider and exposure to POTUS job for 8 years
She was the wife of a president, and before that wife of a governor. Hardly relevant experience.
As are most politicians, so hardly a distinguishing feature. As a matter of fact, we need fewer lawyers in politics, not more.
Sure, but that hardly puts her anywhere close to "most qualified" label, especially since her senate tenure was about 1 term.
Also adds to her qualifications of course, but it brings problems as well (Benghazi for example). Also, SecState has become something of a terminal position in more recent history. Last SecState to become president was James Buchanan(also only bachelor president), in mid-19th century.
That's just to name a few.
No, that's to name absolutely everything. And including being married to the president as qualification is a real stretch.
if you look at all the other candidates, it is difficult, if not impossible to find one with more experience at different levels of the federal government, or knowledge of federal law than Hillary Clinton. This isn't sycophantic drivel. It's hard data.
Don't tempt me to post that JK Simmons gif again. Compare her resume with that of Poppy Bush.
- Naval aviator during WWII, flew numerous combat missions-
- businessman [relevant if you want to include Hillary being a lawyer]
- 2 term congressman
- UN ambassador
- RNC chief
- diplomat in China
- Director of Central Intelligence
- Vice President
All that and he was still a few years younger than Hillary when he was elected president. I assume he counts as "modern history" so the claims of Hillary sycophants are spectacularly debunked.
Even compared to people in the running today her qualifications are not the most impressive.
Bernie Sanders
- 8 years mayor of Burlington
- 16 years Congressman
- 8 years or so as Senator, including 2 years as VA committee chairman
Or take Martin O'Malley:
- Assistant State's Attorney
- 8 years Baltimore city council
- 8 years mayor of Baltimore
- 8 years governor of Maryland
Yeah, I know, none of them were married to a president so their qualifications can never be nearly as impressive as those of the Inevitable One.
If she isn't qualified to be POTUS, no one else in this pathetic race is either.
Yeah, I know, none of the other candidates was ever married to a president, although Jeb is related to two of them.
I really don't like the fact that she's going to go unchallenged, but that's what we're looking at. She isn't very inspiring, she's a horrible public speaker--not like Dubbya was horrible--she's bad in her own way. But she is a better alternative than any of the Republican candidates--by a long shot.
She managed to screw up one inevitable candidacy and that was when she was 8 years younger, and before Benghazi, blood clot, "we were so poor" comments and Servergate. Of course, if McSanders wins the nomination it might be a repeat of 1972.
And for the fucking life of me I don't know why she would want that goddamn job anyway. Maybe that should be the biggest concern. What is that drives someone who has taken so much abuse for so many years to want to continue to take it? I'd be like, "Fuck you motherfuckers. I'm gonna go buy an island and hire Republican law students to be my cabana boys."
This quote is very apropos I think.
Douglas Adams said:
The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
BTW, I do agree with you on the looks-as-fair-game thing. It's part of the crucible of being a high level politician in the U.S. Just as there is soft racism, so there is soft sexism. But if you want to be in the club, you have to pay your dues.
I think the only sexism and racism in this case, soft or otherwise, is to insist certain candidates should be protected from certain things that are fair game to others.