Can someone explain how being a "First Lady" counts as experience for the presidency?
2007-11-26 04:58:41 · 10 answers · asked by Yahoo Answer Angel 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
name one thing she has gotten done in her 35 years as a politician.
she keeps saying she has the most experience. As for world leaders. most of the world leaders during the Clinton administration are no longer there.
she has done nothing in all her years.Just another Clinton smoke screen.
She should just run as Mrs. Bill Clinton. she would have a better shot at getting elected.
Mike...
2007-11-26 05:20:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
She was constantly in presidential media spotlight and she has learned how to deal with this aspect of presidency. Handling yourself well in the spotlight during hard times is probably the most important thing a president does. (F. Roosevelt, JFK, Reagan, and Bush Jr. just after 911 are all great examples of this.)
She knows all the world leaders, has met them personally.
She worked on policy while 1st Lady and as Senator.
She has her husband's presidential experience to draw on as her top adviser.
She has the experience of her husband's old staff to draw on, she knows all of them personally also.
Her past experience as 1st Lady easily got her a senate seat in New York, a state from which she was not a lifelong resident, and was even re-elected, and is well respected by her colleagues. This proves her experience as 1st Lady was valid.
Heck, just the fact that she is considered the top contender in this presidential race, even after the disastrous end to Bill's presidency shows that her experience is valid. An inexperienced person could not accomplish this.
2007-11-26 13:03:38 · answer #2 · answered by anonacoup 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
this sort of argument won't hold any water as long as bush remains in office.
he remains the most unqualified person to make important decisions in the nation.
as long as people have the possiblity of hearing a hillary soundbite right after a bush soundbite on the news and the obvious difference of intelligence - no one will care about any of what you say.
hillary's only qualifications are that of first lady?
not true, but as long as we have an alcoholic, male cheerleader in the white house, it won't matter.
who voted for this guy anyway?
2007-11-26 13:06:58 · answer #3 · answered by nostradamus02012 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I do construction and my wife cuts hair and we can `t do each others work.Hillary,Bill,George,and all the politicians are liars and cheats and that does n`t require knowledge or experience just some one that will vote(give a bum a job) and put them in office.
2007-11-26 13:15:50 · answer #4 · answered by kenny 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
She's been a lawyer most her adult life, and a senator for a long time now. She knows the law far more than Bush does, who depends wholly on advisers for anything requiring having paid attention or received a degree from a post secondary school.
In my opinion, you are carrying the husband wife connection too far if you are trying to spin it into an actual liability.
2007-11-26 13:07:34 · answer #5 · answered by Mr. Vincent Van Jessup 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
When Bill was President everybody said she was behind everything in the administration, so that qualification came from the republican side.
2007-11-26 13:20:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I drive a truck pulling triple trailers at 100,000 pounds up and down the highway. I doubt that my wife would be able to do that job any better than I could do hers - which I definitely am not qualified for!!!
2007-11-26 13:03:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Ah! THE question that dems fear the most!
Aside from telling the Whitehouse staff to bow as she passes, she really has no other experience.
2007-11-26 13:29:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
my wife knows my job better than I do.
2007-11-26 16:18:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't. 'Nuff said.
2007-11-26 13:06:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋