- Sun Aug 21, 2016 10:21 am
#76082
Who is qualified to be president? What does it take?
Is Hillary qualified? Sure, a Yale Law grad, US Senator, and Sec of State.
But Trump is far, far more qualified than a young community organizer, part-time law instructor with no money, no business experience, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii.
Trump took a 1 million loan and turned it into 5-10 billion dollars. If that were easy, we would all be billionaires, but we are not.
Look at Jimmy Carter, a submarine officer and peanut farmer and governor. Trump has far, far more business savvy and experience than Carter ever did.
JFK's book Profiles in Courage was written by a Georgetown professor. JFK's own postcards contain numerous spelling errors which would humiliate anybody with a high school diploma. But JFK had the PT 109 experience and, though he hardly ever had a job, was qualified.
What private sector job has Hillary ever done but the Rose Law Firm where she instantly got in trouble?
Trump has done business all over the world, has his own jet plane, experience with foreign laws and taxes and business climates. He makes almost all prior presidents seem unsophisticated by comparison.
Grant was a drunk. Harding was corrupt. Wilson, the president with a PhD, had some sort of wacky Weltbild and his wife ended up de facto president.
Lincoln was a railroad lawyer, a crude fellow from a log cabin who was good at wrestling. Talk about unqualified!
Teddy R, adjusted for inflation, was almost as wealthy as Trump. Why elect some unqualified poor little rich kid like him? Yet he had vigor and brains.
Jefferson, would we elect a slave-owner? Well, he was also an architect and visionary, a visionary who was qualified.
Do I wish Obama hadn't said all the dumb, divisive things he said about cops, shooting victims, red lines in the sand? Sure.
Has Trump's wife ever said she had never been proud of America in her adult lifetime? No. Did Michelle plagiarize here 2008 speech from 2 business books? Yep.
To be "qualified" is an individual -- almost solipsistic -- thing.
And what of physical vigor? Hillary's handler has apparently a diazepam pen, which is used to control petit mal seizures. Why does he carry that if she is not subject to them? Isn't her health an issue?
So we would be talking about these sorts of issues were we to be having a real discussion.
Is Hillary qualified? Sure, a Yale Law grad, US Senator, and Sec of State.
But Trump is far, far more qualified than a young community organizer, part-time law instructor with no money, no business experience, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii.
Trump took a 1 million loan and turned it into 5-10 billion dollars. If that were easy, we would all be billionaires, but we are not.
Look at Jimmy Carter, a submarine officer and peanut farmer and governor. Trump has far, far more business savvy and experience than Carter ever did.
JFK's book Profiles in Courage was written by a Georgetown professor. JFK's own postcards contain numerous spelling errors which would humiliate anybody with a high school diploma. But JFK had the PT 109 experience and, though he hardly ever had a job, was qualified.
What private sector job has Hillary ever done but the Rose Law Firm where she instantly got in trouble?
Trump has done business all over the world, has his own jet plane, experience with foreign laws and taxes and business climates. He makes almost all prior presidents seem unsophisticated by comparison.
Grant was a drunk. Harding was corrupt. Wilson, the president with a PhD, had some sort of wacky Weltbild and his wife ended up de facto president.
Lincoln was a railroad lawyer, a crude fellow from a log cabin who was good at wrestling. Talk about unqualified!
Teddy R, adjusted for inflation, was almost as wealthy as Trump. Why elect some unqualified poor little rich kid like him? Yet he had vigor and brains.
Jefferson, would we elect a slave-owner? Well, he was also an architect and visionary, a visionary who was qualified.
Do I wish Obama hadn't said all the dumb, divisive things he said about cops, shooting victims, red lines in the sand? Sure.
Has Trump's wife ever said she had never been proud of America in her adult lifetime? No. Did Michelle plagiarize here 2008 speech from 2 business books? Yep.
To be "qualified" is an individual -- almost solipsistic -- thing.
And what of physical vigor? Hillary's handler has apparently a diazepam pen, which is used to control petit mal seizures. Why does he carry that if she is not subject to them? Isn't her health an issue?
So we would be talking about these sorts of issues were we to be having a real discussion.
- By deepimpact