What are the best qualifications to become either president or vice president of the united states of america

Question

what are the best qualifications to become either president or vice president of the united states of america? do you have to had served in the military?

Answer 1

Be very rich or have lots of rich friends.

Be very adept at deception which is why the position has been predominately held by lawyers (just to name a small few; Clinton, Kennedy, and possibly Obama).

Be able to handle incredibly ignorant comments like those made by amateur wannabe presidents made against George Bush.

And this is just a start of a very long complicated list.

Answer 2

In my humble opinion, military experience helps.  What helps even more is if the candidate has ever been given a test of character.  Governors are certainly scrutinized much like a president, only by smaller numbers.  Who really does pay that close attention to their congressmen?  I follow them pretty closely, but I don't think most people have time to do their own research if it isn't on headline news.

Answer 3

Personally I think you should have served in the military. Afterall, being the president is also being the "Commander In Chief".

But as it turns out, you just need to meet the minimum age requirements and be a master at manipulation.

Answer 4

The best qualifications?  As in, what would make the best President?

That would be not knowing what the f*ck you are doing, but knowing how to bullsh*t people into believing you do.

Then once in the office, knowing full well you don't know what the f*ck you are doing and stay out of deciding anything.  

Bush got it half-right.  He didn't know what the f*ck he was doing.  Problem is, when he got in there he didn't do the second half--realizing it and staying out of things he didn't know anything about.

Answer 5

35 or older.

Natural-born US citizen.

That's it.  There are no others.  Being a military man isn't now nor has it ever been a requirement.  We have a civilian government in the USA, and may it stay that way forever.

Answer 6

You don't have to have served your country to run for either office.  The beauty about America is that we're all free to make the choices we want to make--whether or not to serve, where to work, whether or not to go to college, etc.

Besides the legal qualifications, people look for general qualities or past performance in other political areas such as the House of Representatives, the Senate, committees served on, whether or not they've led (i.e. being a Governor or Lt. Governor).

The best qualifications are a track record of success, honesty (which is rare if not non-existent in most politicians today), and willingness to bite one's tongue to work with others who disagree to get the job done.  If you can play well with others and not sneak around and lie about it and actually produce results, people will take note.

Answer 7

I dont believe someone has to serve in the military. However I believe experience is an important role, dont you think? you wouldnt let the fry guy at Burger king become the Manager his first year there, without working his way up would you? Shift  manager, assistant manager etc. There is a reason for those steps. A person needs a good comprention of whats gong on to run anything effectively. And to run our country without experience you are only asking for problems. The odds are a person without muchexperience will fail. Dont you agree?

One more point would you want a doctor without any surgical experience operate on you? I know I wouldnt. Just another analogy.

Answer 8

Well, apparently, being a dumbass can be one of the qualifications.

Answer 9

It seems like the ONLY requirement is being born into an Elite family, or a friend of theirs. NO, you don't need to have served in the military. Bush was able to worm his way around that one.