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Originally Posted by Rochard
You are kidding me, right?
It's called experience.
I am not saying you need to work for the Executive branch of the government. But you need some kind of experience - in government. You need to know how government works. Ideally you should have a broad set of skills in state government, federal government, foreign affairs, and the military. Other areas such as healthcare and education help also.
With the exception of Trump, every President in the past sixty years has had some of this experience. (And we see how well this is working out with Trump.) Even Ronald Reagan was at least governor of California.
With the exception of law, Michelle Obama has none of these qualifications.
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I understand what you are trying to say.
But you're wrong.
The only "experience" should be Executive Level experience.
And that's one of the reasons that Senators and Congressmen rarely win the White House and usually don't have much success when they do.
Legislative bureaucracy "experience" does NOT make a good leader.
Governors are usually better as President's because they have a experience on the state level at running a govt.
Having said that...the office of President was never intended to be only reserved for lifetime bureaucrats with no REAL world experience.
It was meant to be an office that ANY citizen of the United States could hold.
Leadership is something that you can't teach. And though leadership experience is valuable...it's not something that true leaders need (the first time a leader takes charge in life is the "first time", there is no way to "learn it").
Some people are just born leaders.
I think Michelle is one of those far more so than her husband ever was.
That's just my opinion based on President Obama's history before coming out of nowhere to win the Presidency.
As for Trump...I know you're being derogatory by describing him as nothing more than a reality show star.
But the true "reality" is that he is indeed an executive. And very much "qualified" to be President.
But every President "learns on the job". It's a unique position. And unless you've already been President, you can't have any "experience" in that job. It's one of a kind.