During an interview for a job following law school, Roberts said she framed her qualifications on the basis of her Earth Systems background.
Estimates that sixty-four per cent of Maine's voters were women offered Smith an opportunity that could be exploited when her primary opponents questioned her qualifications on the grounds of her sex; she characterized any assertion that "the Senate was no place for a woman" as "a direct challenge to every woman in Maine".
The question of her qualifications for the Presidency does not concern subtle shades of meaning; it is fundamental.
But he warned that Democrats were going to thoroughly vet her themselves and that he was skeptical of her qualifications for this senior diplomatic role.
As Bill Keller, The Times's executive editor, said, "Senator McCain presented Mrs. Palin's experience as a mother as one of her qualifications for the job".
Nile Gardiner, in the Telegraph, writes: "Her qualifications for the job of US ambassador to London are woefully inadequate … This is a post that should be hugely important to US interests, and should not be seen as a sinecure for donors to presidential campaigns.
But that is an optimistic assessment of her qualifications for the office she now seeks and performance evaluations are not built upon optimism but upon results.
Which brings me to Senator Clinton's recent comments, presumably, to contrast her qualifications for president with those of Senator Obama, comparing herself to President Lyndon Johnson with the words, "It took a president to get it done".
Rather than trumpeting her qualifications, many of them bent over backwards to say that she is committed to enforcing federal law, as though that somehow makes her exceptional.
In "An American Daughter," Lyssa Dent Hughes, a dedicated public servant, is virtually vivisected by the media not because of her qualifications but because of a minor oversight she committed.
