Is Jill Stein qualified to be president of the United States of America?

[Panda Express]

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[Blue3]

No way

[IceSpear]

Yes, because she's mean to the shrill bitch on Twitter. What more do you want?

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

Nope.

I'm changing my av, this is ridiculous.

[Stranger in a strange land]

She's as qualified as Ben Carson and Donald Trump, meaning that no, she most certainly isn't.

[BuckeyeNut]

Who the Hell were the two (as of posting) people who said yes!? And why?

[Bandit3 the Worker]

If Trump is, Stein is.

If Bush was, Stein is.

[Crumpets]

Given that her background is in medicine and yet she argues that anti-vaxers are raising legitimate concerns I'm going to have to go with no on this one.

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

Given that her background is in medicine and yet she argues that anti-vaxers are raising legitimate concerns I'm going to have to go with no on this one.

[This account no longer in use.]

Not in a million years.

[Anna Komnene]

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[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

She isn't qualified to sit on a county commission much less be President.

[NeverAgain]

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Yes, she's allowed to run for President. Is she able to function as President due to her qualifications is what the question is asking. And the answer is a resounding no.

[SWE]

No. But literally nobody else on earth is.

[Anna Komnene]

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Yes, she's allowed to run for President. Is she able to function as President due to her qualifications is what the question is asking. And the answer is a resounding no.

I wouldn't feel comfortable with her as president, but I wouldn't feel comfortable with Hillary or Trump as president either.  I don't really like the idea that people have to be political elites to be president.  Was President Obama qualified to be president?  He spent a couple years in the Senate and wasn't really that noteworthy compared to his colleagues.  He was elected mainly because he came up with an inspiring campaign platform that people identified with.

[Suck my caulk]

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Yes, she's allowed to run for President. Is she able to function as President due to her qualifications is what the question is asking. And the answer is a resounding no.

I wouldn't feel comfortable with her as president, but I wouldn't feel comfortable with Hillary or Trump as president either.  I don't really like the idea that people have to be political elites to be president.  Was President Obama qualified to be president?  He spent a couple years in the Senate and wasn't really that noteworthy compared to his colleagues.  He was elected mainly because he came up with an inspiring campaign platform that people identified with.

I agree with your analysis, and I think that if we are looking at qualifications as experience specifically as it relates to preparing one for the office of the Presidency, Gary Johnson is the most qualified of the "Big 4" (Clinton, Trump, Johnson, Stein; the only candidates with access to 270+ electoral votes), as he is the only one with executive experience (eight years as a Governor). I would also like to note that Gary Johnson would be my second choice for President, behind Stein.

[Lyin' Steve]

If you want to vote for the man/woman off the street to go into Washington with no experience and shake things up Mr-Smith-Goes-To-Washington style, fine.  I get it.  Go vote for Ben Carson or Donald Trump or whoever.  At least there's an argument you can make that they have some life experience or original ideas or well-thought-out strategies and policies, or personality characteristics, that would make them well-suited to fix Washington or change the way we do things.  But I could probably go to my local bar and find someone more qualified to be president than Jill Stein.  She's not just a below-average presidential candidate or below-average politician, she's a below-average human being.  She's done nothing exceptional in her life at all.  She was a doctor for a few decades and then became an activist and perennial candidate.  She's no more interesting as a candidate than Roque de la Fuente or Jeff Boss or Randall Terry or any of the other minor or perennial candidates who led normal lives prior to their unsuccessful involvements in politics.  And yet, she has 7% in the latest CNN poll, and the big story on her by Politico has been on top of everyone's news feeds all day.

This election is already the worst because of Sanders and Trump, but if Jill Stein becomes a credible threat to make Donald Trump president on the backs of Democrats acting like little babies, I might have to just disconnect, it's too frustrating.  What happened to our society?

[Rules for me, but not for thee]

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This ^^^. These are the only real qualifications. Political experience isn't a requirement.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Whoever panders to the anti-vaxx crowd isn't fit to be elected dogcatcher.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

What does it even mean to be qualified?

Nobody really knows.

[Simfan34]

People should stop including her in polls. Just because the Libertarians have found a strong ticket doesn't mean that she's suddenly also worth considering. It'd be a shame if the media declares that this is "the year of third parties" and treats the Greens and Libertarians with some kind of false equivalency when only one of them has done anything to deserve the attention.

[NHI]

No way

[Angel of Death]

No, because she hasn't sworn the constitutionally required oath of fealty to Israel.

[pho]

Stein believes that quantitative easing and TARP are the same thing. She isn't qualified to post on Atlas, let alone be President.

[Pyro]

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Yes, she's allowed to run for President. Is she able to function as President due to her qualifications is what the question is asking. And the answer is a resounding no.

I wouldn't feel comfortable with her as president, but I wouldn't feel comfortable with Hillary or Trump as president either.  I don't really like the idea that people have to be political elites to be president.  Was President Obama qualified to be president?  He spent a couple years in the Senate and wasn't really that noteworthy compared to his colleagues.  He was elected mainly because he came up with an inspiring campaign platform that people identified with.

Bingo.