Hillary Clinton does have a very impressive resume, I must admit

[Lincoln Republican]

Any GOP candidates compare to this?

From Wikipedia

Raised in a politically conservative household

1960 At age thirteen helped canvass South Side Chicago following the very close U.S. Presidential election, where she found evidence of electoral fraud against Republican candidate Richard Nixon

1964 Volunteered to campaign for Republican candidate Barry Goldwater in U.S. Presidential election

Early political development was shaped most by her high school history teacher, like her father, a fervent anticommunist, who introduced her to Goldwater's The Conscience of a Conservative, and by her Methodist youth minister, like her mother, concerned with issues of social justice, with whom she saw and met civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. in Chicago in 1962

1965 Enrolled at Wellesley College

Majored in political science. During her freshman year, served as president of Wellesley Young Republicans; with this Rockefeller Republican-oriented group, supported the elections of John Lindsay and Edward Brooke. Later stepped down from this position, as her views changed regarding the American Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. In a letter to her youth minister at this time, she described herself as "a mind conservative and a heart liberal." In contrast to 1960s current that advocated radical actions against the political system, she sought to work for change within it. In junior year, became a supporter of the antiwar presidential nomination campaign of Democrat Eugene McCarthy. Following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., organized a two-day student strike and worked with Wellesley's black students to recruit more black students and faculty. In early 1968, was elected president of the Wellesley College Government Association and served through early 1969; was instrumental in keeping Wellesley from being embroiled in the student disruptions common to other colleges. A number of her fellow students thought she might some day become the first female President of the United States. To help her better understand her changing political views, Professor Alan Schechter assigned Rodham to intern at the House Republican Conference, and she attended the "Wellesley in Washington" summer program. Was invited by moderate New York Republican Representative Charles Goodell to help Governor Nelson Rockefeller's late-entry campaign for the Republican nomination. Attended the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami. However, was upset by the way Richard Nixon's campaign portrayed Rockefeller and by what she perceived as the convention's "veiled" racist messages, and left the Republican Party for good.

1969 Graduated from Wellesley College with a Bachelor of Arts degree, with departmental honors in political science

1969 Entered Yale University Law School

Served on the editorial board of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action. During second year, worked at the Yale Child Study Center, learning about new research on early childhood brain development and working as a research assistant on the seminal work, Beyond the Best Interests of the Child, 1973. Also took on cases of child abuse at Yale-New Haven Hospital and volunteered at New Haven Legal Services to provide free legal advice for the poor. In summer of 1970 was awarded a grant to work at Marian Wright Edelman's Washington Research Project, where she was assigned to Senator Walter Mondale's Subcommittee on Migratory Labor. There she researched migrant workers' problems in housing, sanitation, health and education. Edelman later became a significant mentor. Was recruited by political advisor Anne Wexler to work on the 1970 campaign of Connecticut U.S. Senate candidate Joseph Duffey, with Rodham later crediting Wexler with providing her first job in politics.

1971 Began dating Bill Clinton, also a law student at Yale. That summer interned at the Oakland, California, law firm of Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein. The firm was well known for its support of constitutional rights, civil liberties, and radical causes, two of its four partners were current or former Communist Party members; worked on child custody and other cases.

The following summer, Rodham and Clinton campaigned in Texas for unsuccessful 1972 Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern

1973 Graduated from Yale University Law School with a Juris Doctor degree

Began a year of postgraduate study on children and medicine at the Yale Child Study Center. Her first scholarly article, "Children Under the Law", was published in the Harvard Educational Review in late 1973. The article became frequently cited in the field.

During her postgraduate study, Rodham served as staff attorney for Edelman's newly founded Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and as a consultant to the Carnegie Council on Children.

1974 Was a member of the impeachment inquiry staff in Washington, D.C., advising the House Committee on the Judiciary during the Watergate scandal. Under the guidance of Chief Counsel John Doar and senior member Bernard Nussbaum, Rodham helped research procedures of impeachment and the historical grounds and standards for impeachment. The committee's work culminated in the resignation of President Richard Nixon in August 1974.

By then, Rodham was viewed as someone with a bright political future. Democratic political organizer and consultant Betsey Wright had moved from Texas to Washington the previous year to help guide her career, and Wright thought Rodham had the potential to become a future Senator or President. After failing the District of Columbia bar exam and passing the Arkansas exam, Rodham came to a key decision. As she later wrote, "I chose to follow my heart instead of my head". She thus followed Bill Clinton to Arkansas, rather than staying in Washington where career prospects were brighter. He was then teaching law and running, unsuccessfully as it would turn out, for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives from Arkansas. In August 1974, Rodham moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas, and became one of only two female faculty members in the School of Law at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. She gave classes in criminal law, where she was considered a rigorous teacher and tough grader, and was the first director of the school's legal aid clinic.

1975 Married Bill Clinton

1976 Campaign director of field operations in Indiana for Jimmy Carter's Presidential election campaign

1977 Joined the venerable Rose Law Firm, a bastion of Arkansan political and economic influence. Specialized in patent infringement and intellectual property law while also working pro bono in child advocacy; rarely performed litigation work in court.

1977 President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the board of directors of the Legal Services Corporation, and served in that capacity from 1978 until the end of 1981. From mid-1978 to mid-1980, she served as the chair of that board, the first woman to do so. During her time as chair, funding for the Corporation was expanded from $90 million to $300 million; subsequently she successfully fought President Ronald Reagan's attempts to reduce the funding and change the nature of the organization.

Husband Bill Clinton Attorney General of Arkansas 1977-1979
Husband Bill Clinton Governor of Arkansas 1979-1981
Husband Bill Clinton Governor of Arkansas 1983-1992

1979-1981, 1983-1992 Hillary Clinton First Lady of Arkansas

1979 Became the first woman to be made a full partner of Rose Law Firm

1983 As First Lady of Arkansas, was named chair of the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee

1983 Named Arkansas Woman of the Year
1984 Named Arkansas Mother of the Year

1993-2001 Husband Bill Clinton President of the United States

1993-2001 Hillary Clinton First Lady of the United States

When Bill Clinton took office as President in January 1993, Hillary Rodham Clinton became the First Lady of the United States, and announced that she would be using that form of her name. She was the first First Lady to hold a postgraduate degree and to have her own professional career up to the time of entering the White House. She was also the first to have an office in the West Wing of the White House in addition to the usual First Lady offices in the East Wing. She was part of the innermost circle vetting appointments to the new administration and her choices filled at least eleven top-level positions and dozens more lower-level ones. She is regarded as the most openly empowered presidential wife in American history, save for Eleanor Roosevelt.

1993 President Bill Clinton appointed First Lady Hillary Clinton to head the Task Force on National Health Care Reform, hoping to replicate the success she had in leading the effort for Arkansas education reform.  The national  health care reform plan did not receive enough support for a floor vote in either the House or the Senate, although Democrats controlled both chambers.

Along with Senators Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch, was a force behind the passage of the State Children's Health Insurance Program in 1997, a federal effort that provided state support for children whose parents could not provide them with health coverage, and conducted outreach efforts on behalf of enrolling children in the program once it became law. She promoted nationwide immunization against childhood illnesses and encouraged older women to seek a mammogram to detect breast cancer, with coverage provided by Medicare. She successfully sought to increase research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health. The First Lady worked to investigate reports of an illness that affected veterans of the Gulf War, which became known as the Gulf War syndrome. Together with Attorney General Janet Reno, Clinton helped create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice. In 1997, she initiated and shepherded the Adoption and Safe Families Act, which she regarded as her greatest accomplishment as First Lady. In 1999, was instrumental in the passage of the Foster Care Independence Act, which doubled federal monies for teenagers aging out of foster care. As First Lady, hosted numerous White House conferences, including ones on Child Care, 1997, on Early Childhood Development and Learning, 1997, and on Children and Adolescents, 2000. Also hosted the first-ever White House Conference on Teenagers, 2000, and the first-ever White House Conference on Philanthropy, 1999.

2001-2009 United States Senate New York

2008 Candidate for Democratic Party nomination for President U.S., lost to Barack Obama

2009-2013 United States Secretary of State under President Barack Obama

June 2014 Launches book tour for her memoir Hard Choices

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I don't think so.  Paul, Christie, Rubio, Walker, etc. are all 'rising stars', with relatively little experience.

Only former Vice Presidents would be as experienced with the inner workings of the presidency as Hillary is.  Not only that, but she's done a good job of keeping herself politically relevant, becoming a Senator and then Secretary of State.  Jeb Bush, in contrast, has been out of office for 7 years.

Of course, a resume isn't everything, or else Clinton would have beaten Obama in the primary and might very well have become president.

[retromike22]

James Buchanan also had a very impressive resume.

[Frodo]

James Buchanan also had a very impressive resume.

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Seriously?

[Lincoln Republican]

James Buchanan also had a very impressive resume.

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Seriously?

James Buchanan was well educated, had some military experience, and did have extensive political and diplomatic experience

Attended the village academy (Old Stone Academy) and later Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, graduating with honors, 1809. Later that year, he moved to Lancaster, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1812.

A dedicated Federalist, he initially opposed the War of 1812 because he believed it was an unnecessary conflict. When the British invaded neighboring Maryland, he joined a volunteer light dragoon unit as a private and served in the defense of Baltimore. Buchanan is the only President with military experience who did not, at some point, serve as an officer.

1814-1816 PA State House of Representatives, Federalist
1821-1831 U.S. House of Representatives PA
1832-1833 Minister to Russia
1834-1845 U.S. Senate PA
1845 Declined nomination by James K Polk for U.S. Supreme Court
1845-1849 U.S. Secretary of State, under James K Polk
1852-1866 President Board of Trustees Franklin & Marshall College Lancaster, PA
1853-1856 Minister to United Kingdom
1857-1861 President U.S.

[NewYorkExpress]

James Buchanan also had a very impressive resume.

....


Seriously?

James Buchanan was well educated, had some military experience, and did have extensive political and diplomatic experience

Attended the village academy (Old Stone Academy) and later Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, graduating with honors, 1809. Later that year, he moved to Lancaster, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1812.

A dedicated Federalist, he initially opposed the War of 1812 because he believed it was an unnecessary conflict. When the British invaded neighboring Maryland, he joined a volunteer light dragoon unit as a private and served in the defense of Baltimore. Buchanan is the only President with military experience who did not, at some point, serve as an officer.

1814-1816 PA State House of Representatives, Federalist
1821-1831 U.S. House of Representatives PA
1832-1833 Minister to Russia
1834-1845 U.S. Senate PA
1845 Declined nomination by James K Polk for U.S. Supreme Court
1845-1849 U.S. Secretary of State, under James K Polk
1852-1866 President Board of Trustees Franklin & Marshall College Lancaster, PA
1853-1855 Minister to Great Britain
1857-1861 President U.S.

I guess if Hillary wins, Republicans will start a Civil War... I wouldn't put it past them.

[Frodo]

James Buchanan also had a very impressive resume.

....


Seriously?

James Buchanan was well educated, had some military experience, and did have extensive political and diplomatic experience

Attended the village academy (Old Stone Academy) and later Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, graduating with honors, 1809. Later that year, he moved to Lancaster, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1812.

A dedicated Federalist, he initially opposed the War of 1812 because he believed it was an unnecessary conflict. When the British invaded neighboring Maryland, he joined a volunteer light dragoon unit as a private and served in the defense of Baltimore. Buchanan is the only President with military experience who did not, at some point, serve as an officer.

1814-1816 PA State House of Representatives, Federalist
1821-1831 U.S. House of Representatives PA
1832-1833 Minister to Russia
1834-1845 U.S. Senate PA
1845 Declined nomination by James K Polk for U.S. Supreme Court
1845-1849 U.S. Secretary of State, under James K Polk
1852-1866 President Board of Trustees Franklin & Marshall College Lancaster, PA
1853-1855 Minister to Great Britain
1857-1861 President U.S.

I am well aware of his biography, thank you very much.  What I don't appreciate is anyone comparing the two as if implicitly saying that Hillary will be every bit as much of a disaster for the country as he was.  

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James Buchanan also had a very impressive resume.

And Lincoln did not. Goes show you that an impressive resume doesn't necessarily correspond with being a good President.

[Maxwell]

How about leave the wikipedia entrys to wikipedia?

[Lief 🗽]

Yes, she is a great woman. I think she'll do a heck of a job once elected.

[KCDem]

James Buchanan also had a very impressive resume.

Reported for trolling.

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Quincy Adams, Buchanan,  McKinley, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Bush Sr had impressive resumes also. Some succeeded, some didn't.
Then some...really weren't.  Such as Jackson, Taylor, Grant, Eisenhower,  etc.

[Maxwell]

Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Quincy Adams, Buchanan,  McKinley, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Bush Sr had impressive resumes also. Some succeeded, some didn't.
Then some...really weren't.  Such as Jackson, Taylor, Grant, Eisenhower,  etc.

None of that was helpful information.

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Quincy Adams, Buchanan,  McKinley, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Bush Sr had impressive resumes also. Some succeeded, some didn't.
Then some...really weren't.  Such as Jackson, Taylor, Grant, Eisenhower,  etc.

None of that was helpful information.

K

[MATTROSE94]

Out of all the Republican candidates running, I would say that John Kaisich is one of the more experienced ones with regards to legislative experience, as he served 3 years in the Ohio State Senate (1979-1982) and 18 years in the House of Representatives (1983-2001 including a stint as the Budget Committee chairman from 1995-2001).

[Mister Mets]

Resumes are weird.

James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson were among the most qualified presidnetial candidates ever, but they were awful at it.
Abraham Lincoln probably had the worse resume of any man elected to the presidency, as a one term congressman. He was pretty good at it.
The last three Presidents are probably among the least qualified (on paper) we've ever had. Bill Clinton was a small state Governor. George W Bush was Governor in a state where the legislature has most of the power, and his previous business experience was due to daddy's friends. Obama hadn't served a full term in the Senate.

It's worth noting that some of the other potential Democratic nominees have great resumes. Biden had a lengthy Senate career (including 14 years as Chairman of important committees) before he became Veep. Cuomo was in the Clinton cabinet before he became a big-state Governor (and then there's his stint as New York AG.) O'Malley has sixteen years of executive experience. No one's talking about Rahm Emanuel, but his resume is incredible (US House leadership, White House Chief of Staff, elected Executive.) Mark Warner and Tim Kaine may have the ideal resumes: Former Governors who understand Washington and Congress as incumbent Senators.

The best Republicans don't tend to be as experienced, but some of the resumes are decent. Christie's a powerful Governor who also served as a US Attorney. Paul Ryan's been in Congress since the Clinton administration, is chairman of a key committee, and the intellectual leader of the party on financial matters. Rob Portman has served in both houses of Congress, and in multiple posts in the Bush administration. John Kasich had an impressive congressional career (Chairman of the House budget committee) before he became a Governor. Mike Pence and Bobby Jindal would have a similar combination of executive experience, along with stints as legislators in Washington.

Experience doesn't tend to matter in presidential elections. McCain was more experienced than Obama. Gore was more experienced than W. Carter, Reagan and Clinton were less experienced than the Presidents they beat.

[King]

Congrats Hillary