When I was younger, I feared that I might die young. One day I woke up and realized I had become too old to die young. I, like several of the candidates for President of the United States, have slipped into what I call the “red zone” of life – that time when anything can happen at any time.
Since I am in the age range of several of the leading Democrat candidates, I have given serious thought to that issue. It is almost a year until the next election. Will the septuagenarian candidates make it to election day without a trip or two to the hospital?
I posed that question because I did a mental inventory of my friends who are in the same age group. Almost every one of them has had a trip to the hospital or been diagnosed with a serious illness – not always life-threatening, but serious enough. Many required surgery – including myself.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has already hit the emergency room with a mild heart attack. Having had one or two of those in the past, I can attest to the fact that you can return to normal life for a while – but not the life one leads when they are 40, 50 or even 60.
The 95-year-old former President Jimmy Carter said it directly. He declared that no person over the age of 80 can handle the job of President. I think he is probably right – and two of the Democrat candidates – Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden – will enter the eighth decade of life during their potential first term in office.
Based on my own experience and general statistics, I see a very high possibility – maybe even a probability – that one or more of the older candidates will have a health scare before the election. It could change the entire trajectory of the campaigns — depending on who it is and when it might occur.
If it happens when they are a candidate, it is mitigable. If it happens after taking the oath of office, it can be a much more serious problem.
I know it is not politically correct to raise the issue of age, but as Biden often says – “come on, now. Get real”
So, there ‘tis.
Age will not affect their campaigns.
Larry is being practical and rational in regards to the health concern problems of the elderly in regards the potential of them ever being sworn in as the Executive Officer of our government when one thinks of a VP whose agenda is contrary to that of the POTUS the initials LBJ comes to mind for those who were born too long after the end of said person’s reign as emperor those initials stand for Lyndon Baines Johnson the man who conspired with the Rothschild family, the major investors of the Defense industry, the CIA, and the Mafia to assassinate John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Age may not, but INSANE STUPIDITY will. This should TAKE OUT every Democratic presidential candidate. POTUS Trump will win the 2020 election by DEFAULT. Team Trump and his allies 2020.
Age will do nothing, it’s their idiocy that is doing them in. They give billion$ all over the world to protect borders to keep them safe and fight tooth and nail against protecting our own borders! Killing the nation for only one reason, because Trump is president! Democrats all across the country, you didn’t leave your party, your party left you!
It’s absolute lunacy when you can’t investigate someone for crimes committed, but still able to put that same person involved in those crimes into a presidential race!
Biden and Sanders:
Take heed, this pertains to both of you.
What a drag it is getting old! I think that came from an old song..