The most qualified human being to EVER run for President? No contest

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180. No, generally speaking.

I've seen people in the professional world (legal in my case) with absolutely stellar resumes that I wouldn't let walk my cat around the block. They get hired on the basis of said resumes and are often utter mediocrities.

The best explanation of the star-studded resume syndrome is in the book Excellent Sheep by William Deresiewicz, a former professor at Yale. Kids bust their asses ticking every possible box on their resumes to get into elite colleges and universities because they think, correctly, that's what the admissions offices look for. The problem with most of these kids is that they have no idea what they actually want to do with their lives because they've never taken time to reflect on the question' they've been too busy accumulating accolades for the sake of accumulating accolades.

There's "no there there" to quote Gertrude Stein. No core beliefs, no core set of principles, only a desire to punch the next box on the list. They tend to turn out being fairly shitty people who wind up chasing money because it's a marker of success, going along to get along the path of least resistance to get what they feel they "deserve" for their efforts and hoop-jumping.

Any similarity between these kids and a prominent potential Democratic presidential candidate is purely coincidental, I am sure.