Is it just be or is Mccain’s age showing more and more by the month? The Mccain I see/listen/watch today seems a FAR CRY from mccain just a couple of months back. he seems largely ‘directionless’ but not in the way a presidential candidate would, but the way an old man would be when he doesn’t know what he’s going to say or do next.
Keep in mind, I didn’t look at Mccain as approaching senility at all a few months back, but there seems to be somthing slow, and progressively degrading about his attention, speech, even look.
Is this just me?
I wonder how stressful a presidential campaign is on such an old fellow. I mean we have to assume that stuff is stressing even for healthy mid-aged people.
The Mccain of months ago didn’t seem like the Mccain who would think a cheap trick like picking up Sarah Palin would help him win over some democratic supporters (hillary). That might have worked, but he must have known what a disgrace she’d be once she hit the cameras. ← thats not really connected to this thread’s point. but still.
even if its not his age, the guy is shameless to pick a vice presidential candidate like that when he’s so OLD.
My mom who is 73 says someone that old, regardless of their medical history,
is far too old to be president. The toil of the job would kill McCain within a year or two
and we would get stuck with Sarah “wackjob” palin. If you thought bush was bad, Palin would be
twice as bad.
What a happy little world you live in. Clearly the drugs you are on, allows you
to escape normal reality and that must be a nice thing, but for the rest of us
reality is a bitch. I wouldn’t put palin in charge of a ice cream truck or a hot dog stand.
She is unfit to be vice president, unfit to be president and while were are at
it, unfit to be governor. But hay, rock on. Clearly the drugs are working.
Age isn’t something to be disparaged, it is something to be celebrated. With age comes wisdom. Now, what is a hallmark of wisdom? Why, the company one chooses to keep. The problem isn’t that McCain is too old for the office, but rather that he needs more time to ready himself for the office than his endowment would seem to allow. Given the progress he has made since the '80s, I am confident he will be ready to run in 2020, provided he can hold out that long.
you know, I think that claim needs massive evidence/research to support it, which it doesn’t seem to have. We can all point to impressive examples, but as a correlation i’m not sure how strong it is.
A lot of old people (a bigger portion of them anyway) hold insane, unjustifiable beliefs. With such massive leaps in knowledge/science in the last few years, the exact opposite might be true in a general sense.
depends on what your definition of ‘wisdom’ is but i haven’t seen any evidence that their better critical decision makers or that they hold any particular insights more often than not.
Wisdom doesn’t come with just any type of experience and the right amount of time. Wisdom comes with the right kind of experience, and the right kind of mental disposition towards this experience. McCain hasn’t struck me as particularly very wise. The way he’s gone about advertising himself as the candidate of the people is pathetic, and this is his second (or is it third) presidental campaign. You think he’d have learned what I’m about to say by now. Face it. “My friends, I know…my friends, I understand.” Yea, yeah, yeah, it’s clear that the only thing the voters really care for is that the candidate cares for them and understands/genuinely sympathizes with their problems, but is it really a wise thing to do to directly tell people that you know, and that you understand, my friends? We’re not kids, my friends. We don’t just take people at their words. Make us work to get the point. Make us feel special for realizing that you’re really a candidate who cares and understands us, the voters, my friends. Look at the way Obama did it at one point. He brought up the story about his mom dying of cancer or something like that, truly sad stuff, and the way she couldn’t afford it. He didn’t finish this off with the explicit statement, “I know…I understand.” He left it as a secret private nugget for all of us to discover and feel special about.
Also, cut out the cliched “my friends” antic. It’s a transparent gimmick and it makes you look like a tool of a speech coach. Also, don’t try to talk like us. We’re stupid, and we know we’re stupid. Inspire us with your wisdom. Speak in coherent thought out sentences. That’s what gives you a sense of authority in the eyes of others. It’s what makes you seem presidential. Make us look up to you. Ya know…and other stuff like that.
EDIT: just making the point that I’m not presidential. (grammar)