What are the minimum qualifications to be president? [View All]

Or are there simply none? I am wondering, because you'd think there would be some, besides being able to make a good speech, but we seem to be going down the same road republicans did when they nominated George Bush. They put a guy in office that was wholly unqualified for the job, and the country has suffered since that day as a result.

I was speaking with an Obama supporter yesterday, and when I told him that I did not think Obama was qualified he asked why. I pointed out that his only federal campaign experience was against Alan Keyes, who couldn't be elected dog catcher in Illinois, and that Obama's only federal office had been as a senator since 2005 -- that he wasn't even halfway into his first term.

This person was shocked beyond belief. He had assumed that Obama had much more experience, and that put an end to his support for Obama. The country should have learned the lesson of an unqualified president. And I think the rethugs will make a huge issue of his lack of experience if he is nominated. It will be how they take the factor of McCain's age and spin it to their advantage. And when people find out that Obama has little to no experience that would qualify him for president it will be President McCain who we are looking at.

I don't think it's a stretch to say that if Obama was white most of you on DU would not even be considering him given such a lack of experience. He doesn't have the campaign experience to win, and he doesn't have the job experience even if some miracle happened and he did win.

Leave it to the democratic party to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. This is the first election in 8 yrs where we actually have a good chance of taking the presidency. But not going to happen if we put up, as our candidate, the first black man, who also happens to lack a credible experience to qualify for the job. He was asked to wait until he had at least one term as senator under his belt, but his ego just wouldn't allow it. Now the media has sucked you in, and because of it we will lose again.

It's almost enough to make one renounce politics for good. It's been hard to be a democrat for many years because our representatives in congress have kow towed to the rethugs, and just generally acted spineless. If we're going to be stupid too, well it may just be time to throw in the towel for good.