Does 143 days of Senate experience qualify one to be leader of the free world and Commander in Chief?

Question

Does 143 days of Senate experience qualify one to be leader of the free world and Commander in Chief?

Answer 1

Maybe you'd like for their to be standard definition for qualification.  Like we could say, you have to have a rich father that helps you to dodge the draft and keeps you from serving in Vietnam.   Please, don't throw rocks if you live in a glass house.

Answer 2

No it does not.

Answer 3

No it does not...I can't believe I'm defending the hippie liberal communist, but he technically is qualified...he is of age and he is a citizen...that automatically qualifies him.

Answer 4

I personally do not believe so.  It is more comforting to know that someone has been around the block a few times and has a working knowledge of how the true game is played in the political arena.  I would not hire an inexperienced sitter for my baby nor would I hire an attorney who has only been out of college for a year either.  Experience speaks volumes when it comes to the overall security of a Nation of Millions.  I wish the Democrats voted in Hillary because atleast with her we knew where she was coming from.  Truely scary.....

Answer 5

Not even close.

Answer 6

Most of our presidents have come from state governments, not congress.

I assume you are talking about Obama, and while I tend to agree with you, at least he has had seven years of being in the state senate.

I don't think this is one of those jobs where you can get to have the experience before you get the job.

Bush for example wasn't in Washington at all in elected position, he was a governor of Texas, where the governor didn't have so much power.

Other than that he was a business man with a spotty record of success, and that due mostly to his influential friends of the family.

Clinton had been an Attorney General and Governor of Arkansas.Reagan had been president only of the Screen Actors Guild and governor of California, Carter, Governor of Georgia.

Answer 7

Yeah. It's kind of like a guy who starts working in the mail room and a 1/2 year later applies for the CEO position.

Uh, Charlie... I think being the governor of a state with a larger economy than many countries trumps the experience of being a junior senator any day of the week.

Answer 8

It would have helped if he had spent a few of those days actually on the Senate floor instead of out campaigning the whole time.

Answer 9

I would vote for JFK and Lincoln... and they had little more...