Hillary's Announcement Video

[Derec]

By the standards displayed here by the right-wingers, Joe Biden is obviously the most qualified. (R-W's heads explode in 3... 2...)

If he was 10 or even 5 years younger he indeed would be very qualified on paper. Long senate career, chairman of foreign service and judiciary committees, vice president. That's why he was chosen as veep in the first place, despite obvious flaws.

 

[Derec]

Actually your original claim was mocking that being First Lady was a qualification, ignoring her other stately experience outright.

I wasn't ignoring it. But her legit experience is not enough to put her in the top half, much less make her "most qualified". That's why those that want to argue that she is "most qualified" have to play up her first lady years. Pakman himself said that being first lady means she knows "every nook and cranny" of the White House. Of course, by that standard any secret service agent or WH electrician is among the most qualified to run for president ...

If it were that simple, you'd expect lots of First Ladies being in the Senate.

You are assuming they had the desire. It takes a certain personality to want to run for high office, and it's not really that usual that two of those end up married to each other.

You don't seem to be getting the point. I didn't say that it was an automatic stepping stone. I said it was Stately experience relevant for the job.

And you do not seem to be getting my point. I never said it wasn't experience relevant to the job. But it does not elevate her above the average candidate for the office.

That is more because Senators have a voting record which can easily be taken out of context.

Also because it's executive type experience - running a state is more like running the federal government than being one of 100 senators.

Reagan was a puppet who could act.

Like I said, everything she has ever done... handwave, she is the most inexperienced person to run for President since Lyndon Larouche.

No, she's hardly most inexperienced either. Just because I do not buy the "most experienced" crap doesn't mean that I go for the opposite extreme. But LaRouche is not even in the same pool as he is a fringe candidate. But among major party nominees I would say Hillary is slightly below average.

I am also waiting for a citation for "top of her class at Yale" claim.