The Age Question

[barbara]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/25/politi...tml?c=politics


Is age a critical factor when considering a presidential candidate?

[merrylander]

Other than what the Constitution requires not really, except I should think mental age is important. There are senior members on this board that I would not entrust with a tricycle let alone the presidency. I am not even certain I would trust myself.

[donquixote99]

For each candidate, there should be a long-form, unscripted interview. then you could judge based on the individual, not the number.

Whether there will be such an interview is doubtful, though.

[icenine]

I do not think it matters as long as she or he is healthy. Reagan was pretty old and McCain is obviously capable of leadership. In this age if infirmity becomes an issue we will see it almost immediately.

If either Hillary or Biden run I think they will have a younger running mate. I would not be surprised if Hillary just does one term. And women last longer than us men

[hillbilly]

Originally Posted by icenine

I do not think it matters as long as she or he is healthy. Reagan was pretty old and McCain is obviously capable of leadership. In this age if infirmity becomes an issue we will see it almost immediately.

If either Hillary or Biden run I think they will have a younger running mate. I would not be surprised if Hillary just does one term. And women last longer than us men

Palin was a silly move for McCain, IMO. But during the ballgames we had many of good conversations on the bleachers in 08 about our choices. Most of them told me the only reason they didn't support McCain was that he was a POW and it probably took years off his life, so at the age he was already they didn't believe he would hang on 4 more years and Palin wasn't ready for the job. I agree that if he had been elected and died in office we woulda had to cross our fingers that Palin didn't turn out to be a joke.. except Mr. McCain is doing better health wise than those people thought. He's lasted long enough to be through half of a second term had he been elected.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by hillbilly

Palin was a silly move for McCain, IMO. But during the ballgames we had many of good conversations on the bleachers in 08 about our choices. Most of them told me the only reason they didn't support McCain was that he was a POW and it probably took years off his life, so at the age he was already they didn't believe he would hang on 4 more years and Palin wasn't ready for the job. I agree that if he had been elected and died in office we woulda had to cross our fingers that Palin didn't turn out to be a joke.. except Mr. McCain is doing better health wise than those people thought. He's lasted long enough to be through half of a second term had he been elected.

Have you seen 'Game Changer' ?

[hillbilly]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Have you seen 'Game Changer' ?

No. My wife has one channel that plays nothing but the SOS and how dare anyone change her CSI or any other forensic science/coldcasefiles/somebody died and we gonna solve it show.

But I guess I'm still lucky. When I rode the 4 wheeler up the holler to the neighbors house to have a beer I noticed his wife was glued to the tv watching Finding Bigfoot ( or something like that ) and he showed me that she has a pc booted 24/7 with software running that she believes records ghosts talking. She gets up every hour to read the graph and sleeps very little. Poor guy.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by hillbilly

No. My wife has one channel that plays nothing but the SOS and how dare anyone change her CSI or any other forensic science/coldcasefiles/somebody died and we gonna solve it show.

I think we married twins from different mothers.

Here ya go.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Change_(film)

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by hillbilly

No. My wife has one channel that plays nothing but the SOS and how dare anyone change her CSI or any other forensic science/coldcasefiles/somebody died and we gonna solve it show.

Forensics/procedurals would be good. Around here its the classic sort of sleuths who just have incredible intuition. Perot and Marple and such.

[Boreas]

I think 35 is too young from the standpoint of maturity and experience but, at the upper limit, I don't think you can safely generalize.

John