Michelle Obama has dragged this US election out of the gutter

I'm just arm chair quarterbacking this answer because there is no actual standard that you must meet in order to run.

CEOs are very highly paid because very few of them can actually do that job. The skills they need are very similar to that of a president.

They need to assemble teams to help them do a good job, they have to make deals with people in and out of the country, and they have make sure that what they do ends up being in their best interest and can continue into the future.

He's done all of that many more times than Obama ever did. Obama sat around voting on bills while he was running companies, making deals, hiring people, firing people, and actually coming out further ahead way more often than not.

I think he's very qualified to do that job. He also has the draw of making America great again. That campaign is good because many people think America isn't great right now, it actually sucks in many ways it didn't before.

It sucks because for many years we've elected people who never had any private sector experience. You can't learn that in school or any given Ivy league think tank.

He's done good, bad, and ugly. He's done business on the inside with big banks and done business on foreign soil in multiple places.

I think he's done surprisingly well for his circumstances. He's running against the DNC, the MSM, his own party half the time, and anyone not in his shoes would be much further behind I believe.

/r/politics Thread Parent Link - theguardian.com