What qualified Bobby Kennedy to be President in 1968?

[beaconess]

He served on a Senate committee and was his brother's Attorney General, where he did plenty of things that scared the whatsits out of liberals and civil libertarians. He served in the Senate for 3 1/2 years.

What accomplishments of Bobby Kennedy made him presidential material?

[ruggerson]

1. And the anti-John Edwards crowd goes strangely silent

n/t

[lillilbigone]

7. Where's Lloyd Bentsen when you need him?

[styersc]

2. News flash-

Bobby Kennedy was not the President in 1968.

The Constitution details qualifications for candidacy, the voters decide if a candidate is qualified to be elected.

[Tellurian]

5. good answer...and diabolically correct, you are!

The GOP labeled Robert Kennedy as ruthless.

He wasn't aware there are people who
are capable of unthinkable ruthlessness!

[Warren Stupidity]

3. What qualified dumbass to be presidunce?

What qualifead Reagan? Bush-the-less-dumb? Clinton? Bobby certainly knew what the job required, having been his brother's confidant and a key member of his administration.

[OwnedByFerrets]

8. What qualified monkeyboy??

Evidently the religious moral majority wanted to drink a beer with him.

[SaveElmer]

4. I would have voted for Humphrey...but

Bobby Kennedy was certainly qualified. He was an unusually active and important Attorney General at a crucial time in our country'shistory, particularly with regards to Civil rights and integration. He also had a particular empathy and understanding of the problems of the poor.

He was also highly involved in matters outside his scope of responsibility...particualrly foreign affairs.

I have no doubt Bobby Kennedy would have made a fine President...

I believe Hubert Humphrey would have been a great one!!!

[demosincebirth]

6. He also walked with the farm workers, in California, during

the grape boycotts in the Sixties

[THUNDER HANDS]

9. IQ wise

he was probably the most intelligent person to ever run for president.

[cali]

13. IQ wise I totally doubt that

he measured up to Adlai Stevenson, who's widely acknowledged to have been brilliant. But yes, he was bright, and undoubtedly qualified both by experience and temperment.

[GreenTea]

10. Same as Obama in the Senate for 3 1/2 years! But Bobby had AG experience not Obama!

[FrenchieCat]

11. And he was a Kennedy and we and his brother had been cheated out

of a 2nd term?

[1932]

12. ...his vision of the world and that he inspired people. And, although he was

a Democrat his whole life, it's interesting that this world view and his ability to inspire came out late in his life.

People generally thought he was a real ass before the early '60s. By the late '60s, he was deeply committed to alleviating the misery in the world, had a very refined and precise sense of what was causing it, and had such an inspiring political vision that, according to his friends, he was very close to asking MLK Jr to be his VP.

[bmbmd]

14. Heart, soul, intellect

and a genuine concern for people.