DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Palus Politicus What Should The Requirements Be For A President?

I feel most people would consider that an extremely low bar.

As it should be. The bar to throw your hat in the ring and say "I'm going to run for President" should be extremely low.

The high hurdle to get over is supposed to be getting 60 or 70 million people to vote for you.

The problem is that the path from throwing your hat in the ring to getting people to vote for you is completely manipulated by a crap media and a totally corrupt 2 party system.

Which crap media? The crap media that got Trump elected in 2016 or the crap media that got Biden elected in 2020?

Because we pretty much had the same crap media both times with two totally different results.

In neither case did I think either candidate overcome some "high hurdle".

That's why I think the minimum requirements should at least be a little bit higher.

Yes, that's the one. You think my definition of crap media has much at all to do with right vs left? It does not. It has everything to do with only providing coverage of people with name recognition, with splash, those who will sell their rags or generate the clicks.. while leaving other, often much better, candidates languishing at the bottom of the polls.

Our media has quite the "we won't cover them unless they have a significant following" take on it.. but they can't develop the following because the media won't cover them.. which is why a lot of good candidates languished at the bottom of the democratic primary with no attention allowing Mr. Boring-already-been-VP-already-been-in-DC-for-5-decades guy to surge to the top at the very end so he could select a black female VP. You think that was an accident? or worse yet, you think that was the will of the people?

Trump was a bit of an anomaly from his first term though, the media treated it like it was a big joke. The more popular he became based on his name recognition and willingness to say totally outrageous things, the more hate they threw at him, the more hate they threw at him the more his follows loved it. That trend continued for 4 more years.


What requirements would you put in place that would have prevented us from having a Biden vs Trump election? In fact, what requirements would you put in place that would have prevented ANY candidate either in the primary or the general election, from being able to run?

If trump can be elected then no one should be held to stricter requirements. Anybody 45 years and older and a natural born citizen can hold the office if they get the votes.

Well, it's 35 years.

Seeing how people generally live longer than they did in the late 16th century, I'd take those 10 extra years of experience, but as DC and other people pointed out, the average voter, at least on a national level isn't going to elect a 30 year old President.

Some of the younger dawgs may not like that thought, but serious stuff here, think about how much you know and different you are at age 29 v when you were 19.

That same progression will follow you through for most of your life and why most people will think a person needs to be around mid 40's before they have had enough time to age and mature. By then you are a fairly well balanced adult person in terms of experience and knowledge.

Oops typo but I like the idea. But some never grow more wise with age. trumpism just happens.

I also think there should be some type of max age too. As we get older our mental facilities eventually start to wane. Early on it can easily be hidden.

I'd be hesitant to further restrict based on age. There are plenty of people that are still very much 'with it' at ages that others are starting to degrade, mentally.

If a perspective presidential candidate can't pass a background check, they should be disallowed from running for office..

The president is privy to things that should never be shared outside of the circle of trust.

If they can't be trusted to keep Americas secrets, they can't be trusted at all.

JMO, but I'm sticking to it

What level of background check? There are multiple levels of background checks in the federal government that give you access to progressively higher levels of classified information.

There are also a wide variety of things that can cause a person to fail a background check that don't have much bearing at all on their ability to be President.

And are we just going to limit this to the President? Because I know for a fact that there are a significant number of people in congress who also couldn't pass a background check and they have access to most of the same information the President does.

For me it would be the same top secret clearance background check every other government employee must pass to be given access to the same national security information that a president gets in his daily briefings. National security secrets shouldn't be handed over to someone who isn't qualified to receive them.

My daughter is a CPA for a large corporation and I couldn't believe the questions and information she needed for her background check.

Reagan had Alzheimers. And republicans creamed over him. Probably diagnosed before leaving office. And it showed. Reagan is a distant second to trump for ninnies who have held the office.