Is Resume Really Relevant to Becoming President

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Turn on the news, and you’re likely going hear arguments about Hillary Clinton’s stellar resume, a resume, her surrogates and others argue, that uniquely qualifies her for the job. She, as most know, was first lady for eight years; a two-term senator; and Secretary of State for four years under the current president, Barrack Obama. But, is resume really a predictor of how well one would perform as president?

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If resume was a predictor, then President James Buchanan would have been one of the greatest presidents in US history under this theory, with supreme qualifications such as ambassador to Russia, representative and then senator in the national legislature, and later secretary of state to his name. But, as history tells us, Buchanan was not the best but one of the worst presidents. He presided over a pre-Civil War America in which sharp divisions over slavery and Secession and a failure to bring peace and stability to the situation has resulted in historian’s rank of one of the worst.

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President Lincoln, on the other hand, is generally considered one of America’s best Commanders-in-Chief, yet his pre-presidential years were less than stellar, and his resume includes no formal education and no especially prominent resume items that would suggest greatness. However, Lincoln was impelled to office for reasons and ideas he saw as much bigger than himself or his resume. Most importantly, Lincoln was troubled early on over the overwhelming contradiction between the ideas of universal equality in our Declaration of Independence and the condition of hereditary racial servitude into which African Americans were conscripted in this country.

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Although Lincoln did not start out in life with this belief, it became crystallized in his mind as an issue of such incredible magnitude that the survival of the United States demanded an end to this horrible institution.

This is what should be the major measuring stick of how well anyone running will do as president: that they were impelled to office for a discernible reason of such magnitude and exigency that they see the nation’s survival as depending on their ascendancy. When contemplating running for president or any other elected office for that matter, one’s resume should be seen as dwarfed in importance by the urgency of ideas of consequence.

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