Only three current members of Congress have Ph.D.s in a science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) field.

[DFW]

5. I tend to agree, and had the privilege of getting that view reinforced.

In July 2012, I got an invitation to meet with then-President Obama in Washington for an hour. From memory, some of the subjects covered were the Syrian civil war, Putin, health care costs, Republican election cheating and the Egyptian economy and why its health was so important to the region. I posted about it on DU—after the White House sent me the photos, of course!!

I never got to spend anywhere near that much time with Bill Clinton, but he seemed to be very much cut from the same cloth.

Compare those two to W and Trump, and it’s obvious there is no comparison.

My forty year old nephew has a PhD in engineering, and except for the fact he is not interested, he might have made a good congressman, but to be president, your knowledge SHOULD be much broader.

By the way, I do not agree that a law degree is disqualifying per se. That is a very generic term. A lawyer who got his degree in corporate law or criminal law, maybe not. My younger daughter got her degree in international law, is widely traveled, multi-lingual, has worked with the UN in western Africa, AND she has good people skills. She could have made a serious presidential candidate except for two things: she isn’t in the slightest bit interested, and she’d never want to take that big a salary reduction. Oh, well….