The last Pres candidate pre-qualified to be CinC was Dwight D. Eisenhower.

[moondust]

Sorry to disappoint the Hillary fans but neither she nor McBush are anywhere near being in that league.

[joeybee12]

1. Yeah, and Dwight's miscalculations led to the Battle of the Bulge...

...still, experience is a legitimate issue to consider, and Hilary has every right to bring it up, since you Obama-ites believe he has every right to say she doesn't have it.

[rurallib]

3. Never understood why being married to the Pres is experience

If so Laura Bush or (ugh) Babs is just as qualified.

[joeybee12]

5. Well, Nancy reagan is probably qualified since she ran things...

...Roslynn Carter also involved herself greatly in her husband's business...being first lady in itself doesn't qualify one...it depends on the individual and what she does with the opportunity...I think Hilary passed that test.

[BOSSHOG]

2. I would add General Clark to that short list

[moondust]

8. I'll accept Wes Clark.

[Adelante]

4. Gen. Wesley Clark 2004 was pre-qualified to be CinC

But I agree with the rest.

[RubyDuby in GA]

6. I'm gonna throw in a one James Earl Carter, Jr. to that mix

http://www.cartercenter.org/news/experts/jimmy_carter.html

He was educated in the public school of Plains, attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received a bachelor of science degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1946. In the Navy he became a submariner, serving in both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets and rising to the rank of lieutenant. Chosen by Admiral Hyman Rickover for the nuclear submarine program, he was assigned to Schenectady, N.Y., where he took graduate work at Union College in reactor technology and nuclear physics, and served as senior officer of the pre-commissioning crew of the Seawolf, the second nuclear submarine.

[blm]

7. John Kerry - he was and still is the TOP lawmaker in DC on the tracking of terrorists and their

financial networks.

Besides his strong record on military matters.

[splat]

9. Actually, they were afraid to run a general, ran him as prez of Columbia U.

Military leaders were not thought to be good civilian leaders.