Can somebody (preferably a liberal) please explain Hillary's qualifications to be the next President of the United States to me? Anyone is welcome to join in, but I can't figure out what her appeal is. I haven't come across anything she has DONE to qualify her. Answer away.
2007-12-05 12:03:19 · 10 answers · asked by Ian 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
I apologize for a bias question. I am sincerely asking. I've read quite a bit about her in magazines, Bill Clinton's biography "my life" and have visited numerous websites supporting her. I'm just getting a feel for other people's views and opinions. Thanks for your responses.
2007-12-05 12:31:06 · update #1
President Clinton has often said that she was his virtual partner during his entire public career. As the first lady of Arkansas and then of the United States, she gained a thorough understanding of the workings of American government. She was the first first lady to actually fill a significant policy role, taking the lead on health care, which many Americans list as their top concern. As a Senator she received rave reviews, not only from her constituents and Democratic colleagues, but also from many Republican Senators, who praised her intelligence, hard work, and commitment to working across party boundaries. No less a Republican leader then Trent Lott has said he is a big fan of hers, and he is only one of many. She's tough, she's smart, she shares the concerns of most Americans, and she knows how to get things done. Those are a few of the reasons why I and tens of millions of Americans will be voting for her.
2007-12-05 12:12:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Appeal and qualifications are two different things. Which do you prefer?
I will assume you mean qualifications, since you repeat that twice. To begin, she ran the Children's Defense Fund in Arkansas, and indeed founded its state chapter. That provided her with executive experience. She also spearheaded the group that put mandatory teacher testing in Arkansas. She also led and failed the Clinton attempt to provide national health care; a failure true, but her predictions about the growing health crisis was prophetic.
Since her husband retired, Hillary Clinton has served seven years as a Senator from New York. She has served on the Armed Services Committee, and is considered one of their best and most effective members.
If you think it is a thin portfolio, I think you'd have to add a couple other candidates to the list from both parties: Fred Thompson, Barack Obama, Mike Gravel, Rudy Giuliani, Alan Keyes, Dennis Kucinich, John Edwards, and Tom Tancredo are all of limited experience and qualifications as well.
Hope that goes some way to answering your question.
Cheers.
2007-12-05 12:24:48 · answer #2 · answered by blueevent47 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One thing. She has long had the inside track of how things really work in government and what is really going on. But she never called the shots. She has no military experience, she is simply a liberal minded, low-level courtroom lawyer but that is not very useful. Thousands of better lawyers we can hire.
So she has only what she observed in the governor's mansion, the white house and now as a senator in the Capitol. Not much. So it boils down to character and her fundamental beliefs.
Nothing personal, in fact I used to find her very attractive and burdened with a philandering public mooch. So, are you clear on what she truly believes in? Hillary is literally a black box. But she is a woman and America would not mind getting that old debt off its back. A token President?
2007-12-05 12:17:30 · answer #3 · answered by NYC Sewers 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't support her, but these are the most common reasons I hear..... at least online, I've never met a real live supporter.
1. Shes a woman.
2. Shes got the experience of being first lady... which some how counts as being president.
3. She is extremely liberal.
2007-12-05 12:34:03 · answer #4 · answered by scorch_22 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The qualifications to be the president of the US are:
1.) Natural born citizen of the US (Check)
2.) 35 years old (Check)
3.) 14 years of residency w/in the US (Check)
I guess us liberals just like to abide by the Constitution. Any further questions?
2007-12-05 12:22:16 · answer #5 · answered by homiel34 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No one has ever entered the whitehouse with experience as president..
As far as Clinton, she is a US senator, many have been elected in the past that also had no more qualification than that.
Bush was governor of a state he also had no previous experience as president
2007-12-05 12:08:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
"Handling internal matters by supplying Bill with interns, showing her external qualifications by displaying a flat chest, liking things & people both ways, bullying kindergarden children by accusing them of trying to be future presidents, losing the key to her secret archives. A big list of 'qualifications'.
2007-12-05 12:12:12 · answer #7 · answered by Din2600 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
She has no qualifications. She has never held an office until she became a juniou senator for New York.
She has done nothing that could make people trust her.
I guess people are not only gullable, but too loyal to their party and not to America.
2007-12-05 12:09:37 · answer #8 · answered by Blessed 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
She's in the second term as a New York senator... She was first lady... She drafted a healthcare package that failed, because it would have ruined the economy quicker than it was already crumbling
2007-12-05 12:08:39 · answer #9 · answered by damond h 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
"I haven't come across anything she has DONE to qualify her"
Have you looked? It doesn't sound like you'll accept anything that anyone says so why should a liberal, or anyone else, even bother?
2007-12-05 12:08:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋