Why Does a Person Who Has Never Run Anything In Their Life, Think They Can Be President?

[ChrisFromChicago]

Give me a break, look at our past presidents. Look at the duties. Seriously, I can randomly pick a US citizen with a high school degree and basic economics, math, science, etc and they would do better than 51% of the presidents we have elected.

Originally Posted by LauraC

Today I saw a petition to get someone to run in 2016, looked up their background on Wikipedia, and saw they never ran anything in their life and they are not young. Now, I know voters can get carried away with promises from an inexperienced candidate but why would someone who deliberately chose a career path of non-leadership (analyst, consultant, legislator, lawyer, professor, etc.) think that they can just step into the White House and run a country and it's military?

Obviously, you don't actually know what's in a person's head who does this so it's a guess but why do you think, they think they can do it successfully?

[LauraC]

Originally Posted by ChrisFromChicago

Give me a break, look at our past presidents. Look at the duties. Seriously, I can randomly pick a US citizen with a high school degree and basic economics, math, science, etc and they would do better than 51% of the presidents we have elected.

Maybe my question isn't clear. I want to know why someone who has never held a managerial position for 4, 5 and 6 decades by choice, is all of a sudden motivated to run for the hardest managerial/executive role in the country. I don't want to know if you think they can/can't do the job. I want you to tell me why people who have avoided this type of position by taking advisory/consulting/teaching/lawyer type jobs all of their life all of a sudden decide, at the end of their working life, to give the hardest executive job, a shot when they've never done anything remotely like it on a smaller scale. What's your guess as to what's in THEIR head thinking they can do it?