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Hoo-boy.

 

"arguably the most qualified" seems like a stretch. Off the top of my head, GHW Bush seems to me to have had a wider variety of experience, most of it successful. VP checks some of the same boxes as FLOTUS. Member of the House isn't too different from Senator. Director of the CIA and Ambassador to the UN & Ambassador-equivalent to China are things for which HRC has no real equivalent. Founding a successful oil company seems to me more relevant experience than being a lawyer as the governor's wife. Bush volunteered for WWII and I think served in combat; HRC didn't (couldn't and might not have anyway). Certainly the family he came from gave Bush lots of advantages that may have made it more difficult for him to relate to most people in some ways, but the military experience would've helped in that respect, and being Bill Clinton's wife gave HRC a lot of advantages too. What else...being an unsuccessful Senate candidate may have been a useful experience for him; maybe Bill's defeat for reelection would've been her similar experience. She wrote a book as FLOTUS; not sure he wrote anything before becoming POTUS. I suppose one could say that being a woman gave her experience relevant to half the electorate that he didn't have, but I doubt that's what you had in mind as a qualification.

I don't know as much about him, but I think Herbert Hoover would be in the conversation too.

 

Secretary of state?

 

the marketplace of ideas

 

Dangerous. Despicable.

 

That's all wonderful. There's no debate whatsoever that Fuckboy has no relevant experience, not a scintilla, as a candidate for POTUS. On actual real-world qualifications, he isn't competent to run a fuckin' Burger King drive-thru.

 

I’m guessing that’s why he said “arguably.”

 

Armstrong is the same asshole who fired a photog on the spot for taking his picture during a Patch meeting

 

Except for that five-minute tangent during his speech in Ohio ...

 

Shocking development.

Under Trump, America is losing its position as the global arbiter for international norms

 

Long overdue development.