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President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Nov 12, 2016.

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  1. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Hoo-boy.


     
  2. GilGarrido

    GilGarrido Active Member

    "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.
     
  3. jlee

    jlee Well-Known Member

    Secretary of state?
     
  4. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

  5. DanielSimpsonDay

    DanielSimpsonDay Well-Known Member

    the marketplace of ideas
     
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  6. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    Dangerous. Despicable.

     
  7. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    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.
     
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  8. Sea Bass

    Sea Bass Well-Known Member

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

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

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

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

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

     
  11. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

  12. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Long overdue development.
     
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