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Some people with bachelor degrees have 100% more common sense than at lot of PhD’s or people with MBA’s.

I agree with you on this. I know a lot of really stupid PhDs. But, common sense and a little bit more what is needed when faced with an extremely complex financial problem. Or multi-layered and ancient foreign policy issues.

The POTUS should have both. Like Mitt.

But, common sense and a little bit more what is needed when faced with an extremely complex financial problem. Or multi-layered and ancient foreign policy issues.

Your error is to believe that the president is supposed to be a philosopher-king who will be able to unravel the most tangled problems, to 'run' the country, and to show everyone the meaning of life. This office was never meant to do this. These current--wrong--expectations have come about to the degree that people have started to immanentize the eschaton via government and to consider the president as the ultimate expression of this.

The purpose of the U. S. federal government was not to solve the problems of life but to ensure domestic tranquility and to protect the nation from domestic and foreign enemies. Except for a few specifically enumerated things, everything else was to be left up to the wishes of the states, groups of individuals, and individuals. It's time to start paring the federal government back to a pre-FDR form.

“The POTUS should have both. Like Mitt.”

Well, should those degrees be in business management, or history, or diplomacy, or economics, or law, or agriculture,or medicine, or from a military academy, or...

That’s the problem with attaching too much importance to degrees. Presidents (and those in Congress) must deal with issues in every field. Common sense and good judgment are far more important than advanced degrees, or what one majored in. Presidents have practically unlimited access to advisors with advanced degrees and years of experience in various fields.

And with the politically correct and multicultural content of most curricula these days, too much advanced education might not be a plus, especially from the Ivy League which has “led” the nation in PCness for years.