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John McCain Is Too Old To Be President And That's Not Speaking In Code
By Robert Paul Reyes
"If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck."
Republicans claim that referencing McCain's advanced age is as inappropriate as mentioning Obama's race or Hillary's gender. I strongly disagree; race and gender are irrelevant to a president's ability to perform his duties. But a 71-year old man, with a volatile temper and a body and mind ravished by torture and cancer is at a distinct disadvantage in handling the most stressful job in the world.
"In a campaign year marked by flare-ups surrounding comments that have offended one group or another, John McCain and Barack Obama have moved on to the next sensitive battleground: the question of McCain's advanced age.
As some Republicans see it, Democrats are deliberately talking in code about the presumptive 71-year-old GOP nominee as part of an attempt to highlight his age."
Quotation from The Politico/Carrie Budoff Brown
I don't know if Democrats are talking in code when they refer to McCain as confused, doddering and out of touch, but they have every right to highlight McCain's advanced age. Democrats shouldn't be subtle; they should flat out say that McCain is too old to sit in the Oval Office.
If the emperor isn't wearing any clothes, it's not politically incorrect to say that he is as naked as a jaybird. And if a presidential candidate appears confused and befuddled, it's not improper to question his mental condition.
McCain doesn't know a Sunni from a Shiite, and I'd be surprised if he know's an MP3 player from a hearing aid. McCain should have sat out this presidential campaign, and let a much younger person have his turn.
McCain is a septuagenarian who looks like an octogenarian and acts like an old goat (technical term for a 90-something person.)
It's time for change (that's not code for 'time for McCain to change his Depends') and only a young man like Obama can deliver it.
Robert Paul Reyes is a NewsBlaze writer on Politics, Pop Culture and Pointless Pontificating. Contact him by writing to NewsBlaze.
Tags: john mccain, elections, barack obama
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