Let's talk experience...what kinds of experiences are most important for a future President?

[calteacherguy]

Choose the one you think is most important.

[Kurovski]

1. They have to really know how to dodge an errant blowjob.

[janx]

6. Damn right.

Why wasn't that one of our choices? :shrug:

[Kurovski]

8. You know how it is with us...

if it has nothing to do with Paris Hilton, we forget about it within a week.

[janx]

10. Allow me to mention the one that really sticks with me:

the "runaway bride" with the weird eyes.

[Kurovski]

11. Bush's are weirder.

And he tries so hard to appear congenial.

[janx]

12. You have a point. But he loses it at times...

[Look My Way]

2. Biden is without a doubt the best qualified.

34 years in the Senate. Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Well traveled, well known and respected World Wide. Good Orator with a good sense of humor.

[Just-plain-Kathy]

3. I chose being a constitutional scholar...

Next time around I want a president who's smart and who could get us back to the basic foundation of our country.

K&R...to keep the poll out there.

[Contrary1]

4. None of the above

The willingness to listen to advisers/experts who are more knowledgeable than he/she is.

Also, the humility to admit that they were wrong.

[LWolf]

5. You didn't include the most important experience.

Life as one of the non-elite working class. Actual experience living, not like the well-to-do, comfortable, elite, but like the people who most need you to represent them. First hand knowledge of the people.

Time spent in government, especially congress, should be on that list.

A decent education should be on the list.

Experience in telling the truth, standing up for what is right even when it's not popular, keeping your word, being consistent, being trustworthy, working hard on issues, being persistent...all of those are also vital experiences that the POTUS should bring to the wh.

[murbley40]

13. you just described Joe Biden!!

[PatSeg]

15. I was thinking the same thing!!!!

[ruggerson]

7. What about being a governor

isn't executive experience kind of near the top of the list?

[Adelante]

9. I think running a large organization

would be a good experience for a future president. It's an executive position more than anything.

[RFKJrNews]

14. Good poll, thanks for posting

Funny, I was about to post a similar one, but you beat me to it!

So far, the results seem to agree with what I'm hearing from people on the street. Interestingly, not many of them consider congressional or gubernatorial/mayoral experience a big plus anymore.

Fascinating, because it flies directly in the face of conventional wisdom and speaks to the fact that people want *change*.

When I ask them why they feel this way, most say that they are tired of business as usual and they don't trust Washington insiders. Looking at the latest Congressional approval ratings numbers (the lowest in history), I'm not inclined to disagree.

[wyldwolf]

16. Hillary Clinton