Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Hillary Clinton, Overqualified

Or maybe she's just the most experienced candidate. Ever.

May 11, 2015 at 7:40 PM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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No one knows how Hillary Clinton will do as president, if she gets the chance.

But we do know she is probably the best qualified presidential candidate ever, at least when it comes to checking off relevant boxes. This comes up today because a writer for the Weekly Standard claimed she would be an “affirmative-action” president (an argument easily knocked down by Jonathan Chait at New York).