Do you know how many DOCTORS have been Presidents of USA?

[sugus]

Three o four months ago, I asked this question, and very few people knew to answer to me correctly.

Do you know how many DOCTORS have been Presidents of USA?

Lawyers, Economists, Millionaires, Industralists, heads of CIA, Military, people whose priority is the private enrichment with petroleum affairs or military businesses, children of heads of CIA... ¿and DOCTORS? ¿How many Doctors?

Who do you think could be the best profession to be President for the people of United States?

What kind of professional profile of our candidate do you think could reduce better the enormous abstention in USA?

Who do you think could be more sensible and effective for the prevention, the health, and the physical, psychic and social well-being of all our fellow citizens?

Perhaps it´s time to try to put a doctor for President, a man with experience to solve and to prevent the problems of the people, instead of terrifying us.

What do you think about this?

Do you know how many DOCTORS have been Presidents of USA?

[unblock]

1. yeah, well,

frist is a doctor, too ....

political skill, character, and agenda are what matters. not, for the most part, former careers.

[janx]

2. Frist is a businessman doctor.

There are more and more of those around these days.

[leyton]

4. And Hastert is a wrestling coach.

Of course, I hope neither Hastert nor Frist will ever be President, although Frist could run in 2008.

[hellhathnofury]

7. Tom Delay killed bugs.

[Bucky]

13. Fratricide, too? Are his sins without number?

[AP]

3. Now that medicine has been corporatized, you'll see more trying, like....

...Frist, whose family owns an HMO (right?).

Now that there's so much money to made in health care you'll see more polticians intricately woven into the fabric of corporate health care who started off as MDs.

[mandyky]

5. Dean would be the first

In the early years presidents were either soldiers or lawyers. At least 2 were teachers.

I found the info at ipl.org/POTUS/

[OhioStateProgressive]

15. Woodrow Wilson had a PHD in History

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. I honestly don't think it matters whether one is a doctor, lawyer, or

a poop shoveler. I don't think it should matter either.

[loyalsister]

21. What about training?

Education? Lawyers have become president for obvious reasons. Clearly, military experience is relative to the presidency- thus the generals.
Medical training seems to have it's own unique application.
Scientific training is something that is quite valuable to reasoning skills. He has already achieved very good results applying that kind of reasoning to to government affairs.
In addition, a Dr. is required to use complex language at a level that can reach anyone. As we have seen, this makes for effective campaigning. Dean is a master of the art of the soundbyte.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

8. No one has ever been elected President whose last name starts with 'D'

It's like a curse: Dole, Dukakis, Dewey...

[janx]

10. Yikes!

:tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat:

[babzilla]

9. none that I am aware of

but it sure would be great to have 2 doctors in the whitehouse.

Here is another good question: Do you know how many former governers that have been elected to POTUS?

[mandyky]

11. FDR, Carter, Clinton

and of course shrub. I think one of the Adams was a gov too. Many presidents were some sort of public official before becoming prez.

There may be more - ipl.org/POTUS/ - you have to check each prez to find their previous occupations.

[leyton]

20. Adams

John Adams was VPOTUS under Washington. John Quincy Adams was, I want to say Secretary of State or some ambassador. I'm pretty sure he was never a governor, but if he was, it would have been Massachusetts. He was a Senator, though, and is covered in Profiles in Courage.

[loyalsister]

22. The Adams family!!!

John Adams, and his son, John Quincy Adams were BOTH elected president. The coincidences are stunning!
In 1824, Tennessee's Andrew Jackson beat John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts, Henry Clay of Kentucky, and W.H. Crawford of Georgia, carrying the popular vote and more members of the Electoral College than his three opponents. But Jackson failed to capture a majority of the Electoral College, so the election was decided by the U.S. House of Representatives.
In the House, Clay threw his support to Adams, enabling Adams to win. In return, Adams named Clay as his secretary of state. Jackson supporters branded the deal a "corrupt bargain" and immediately began preparing for the next election.

In 1828, Jackson won the biggest presidential landslide of the 19th century, winning 56 percent of the vote against an incumbent president.

"Jackson supporters were so angry, they came back in, went to work, and basically won the popular vote three times in a row," said Orman.

http://www.rutlandherald.com/election2000/elec_night/electops.html

[Bucky]

12. Former guvs include Reagan, Coolidge, Taylor, Jackson, Jefferson,

Monroe, Madison, Cleveland, and either Hayes or Garfield. Taft was governor of the Philippines territory, if that counts.

[OhioStateProgressive]

14. one...Woodrow Wilson(nt)

[Nazgul35]

17. Only if you are talking PhD.

he was not a medical doctor....

[sugus]

23. PhD? What is a PhD?

Excuse me, I do not understand what means PhD.

[windansea]

16. don't know but there's been 10 Generals

I think...someone else said 12

[arewethereyet]

18. andias, its an african word I really love

means I don't know and I don't care.

Best profession is lawyer as politics is all about making people agree with you and feel good about doing so.

[creativelcro]

19. Good question... The previous career influences they way things are seen

Military people tend to see the nation as their troups. Religious people tend to see the nation as their church. Doctors would see the nation as their patient. Business people tend to see the nation as their company. And so on. Not sure there is an optimal profession..