What qualifies you to be president?

[Ibwe Salimu]

In an astounding line of defense, Democrats are actually questioning
whether or not Mitt Romney has the qualifications to be president.
Here
are a few recent examples.
Kenny G Wasserman Shultz told MSNBC yesterday, “Mitt Romney has been
repeatedly saying that his central qualification for the presidency
of
the United States is his record at Bain Capital, I think it's
entirely
appropriate for the president to make sure that voters in this
country
understand that that is not a qualification for president and if he
is
representing that it is, then a close examination and a close scrutiny
of
that record is entirely appropriate.”
Joe Biden told a crowd yesterday, "Your job as president is to
promote
the common good … That doesn't mean that private equity guys are bad
guys; they're not. But that no more qualifies you to be president
than
being a plumber!"
That is audacious, considering these people are defending a man whose
experience includes community organizing and 143 days in the Senate
(before he decided to run for president). To be fair, both Barack
Obama
and Mitt Romney meet the Constitutionally-outlined qualifications to
be
president: natural-born citizens of the United States, at least
thirty-five years old, US residents for at least fourteen years.
But the real question is … what makes a good president? How about
leadership? Mitt Romney is a proven leader. Yes, Bain Capital is a
part
of his past, but what about his leadership as the Governor of
Massachusetts or turning around the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City
and
leading it to success?
If anything, a plumber was more qualified to become president than
Obama
… at least the plumber had an idea of what it takes to earn a living
in
the private sector, maybe create a business, write a paycheck or
create a
business plan. Yes, an understanding of economics isn’t ALL that it
takes, but it would certainly help.