If John McCain wins, he will replace Ronald Reagan as the oldest United States President to ever hold office. When Reagan took the position of President, he was 69 years old. To get the complete list of Presidents and their ages click here.
How much of an issue is that really?
Reagan’s time line includes many poor decisions during his first term in office. Those decisions and over all poor performance was blamed on his age…during the debate for his second term Reagan stated
“I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.”
-Oct. 21, 1984
Sound familiar? We went on to re-elect him and he continued his actions of cutting social program funding and other poor decisions which is now lovingly referred to as the “Reagan Years”. We had our worst recession since the great depression under Reagan.
There is also the questions of Reagan’s mental state while in office.
When Reagan was asked what he would do if he ever showed signs of Alzheimer’s Disease he replied
‘I’d expect my doctors to follow me and to tell me’. They did in their everyday examinations, interchanges with him, but they did no formal testing for Alzheimer’s. The first formal psychological test only occurred about I guess it was the year following, he fell off a horse, and that was the year following he left the White House.
Taken from Liz Lewis.
So everyone ignoring all of the talk around Palin…you need to start paying attention.
I have been a few places, seen a lot of things. I have had my hands in many fields. I may have answers for you if you have questions...even if you don't.
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