Is Barack Obama too young to be president?
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- captainjackie
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Today's Chicago Tribune has an op-ed column by Seven Calabresi, who is a professor @ Northwestern University's Law School, a founding member of the Federalist Society, and a veteran of the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations. He asserts that Sen.Obama is too young to be president. Minimum age is 35... I thought his column was so asinine that it called for a response.
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- captainjackie
- 2 months ago
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Some of our best leaders are young Americans. Sounds like a pathetic attempt at missinformation to me. How many grandfathers out there have a realistic view on the world, economics and civil society that you know? Non consequential blather>
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- victimofcoal
- 2 months ago
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People will find any reason to critize a presidential canididate.
Talent, charisma, vision, knowledge, leadership... None of those come with an age requirement. Pick a better reason to pick a canididate other than "he's too young" or "he's too old".-
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- lifestudentno83
- 2 months ago
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Mr. Calibresi uses some sort of Reagonomic math in his essay. He implies that Sen. Obama's age range would be 25 years old at the time of the revolution
By the same "thought process" wouldn't that make Sen. McCain 137 years old?-
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- bluestranger
- 2 months ago
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How about too senile?
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- Marilynn_Murray
- 2 months ago
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One look at the lettering style of the website's name spoke volumes to me. -
who really cares how old he is . as long as he gets the job done .. he has my vote... obama plz don't make me regret saying that.. lol
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... is john mccain too old to be president?
who cares?!-
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- orangeseverywhere
- 2 months ago
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It's fun to watch Obama just brush it off his shoulders and move on. I think it's the fact that they seem to have no effect on him that frustrates the haters the most. They are clearly scared and desperate.
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I have to agree with you on that krag2112. They will look for any excuse that they can
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The fear and desperation is breeding what we'll find out, come November, is a bunch of sore losers...
The 'too young' card is being played in order to offset Grampy Mcsame's severe old age problem...the guy has to have an assistant following him around to try and keep him from sticking his foot in his mouth... anyone can tell that he's just reading someone else's speaches and how appealing is that..? When are the republicans going to present a presidential candidate with half a brain..? I don't feel sorry for the old man, but in reality, he's too old and unqualified to be president, except maybe president of his local senior citizen's club...
Most Americans will be winners when Obama is elected, because they're looking for a true leader, but there will still be some losers, dyed in the wool right-wing gotta tow the party line losers...
Obama's youthful exuberance will be a refreshing change in itself...just what this nation and the world is waiting for...-
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- PlatoTacius
- 2 months ago
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Simply no...considering that he is older than the minimum age the answer would be no...
With that said and out of the way, the age question obviously only lends itself to the perceivably bigger issue of his "experience"....
The fact is no one in the world is experienced to be president except for previous presidents....
having a candidate with years of experience in the Washington machine might be ideal to some but when you have an individual such as McCain whose policies offer more of a system that already has diminished the priority of American citizens in the eyes of the government, whose advisors have worked for and without doubt have agendas that align themselves with corporate interest, and continually displays his lack of knowledge about the economy and his knack for telling bold faced lies... do you really think that character(both ethical &moral), judgment, and temperament count for nothing….
Everyone is entitled to their opinion there are some things no matter how hard you try will not wash away from McCain-
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- neoguardian4
- 2 months ago
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This guy cites three young president's "rookie blunders," but young presidents haven't been the only ones to make mistakes. I mean, Bush was like in his late 50s when he started the Iraq war ;)
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JFK was younger than obama wasn't he?
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- SilenceNoMore
- 2 months ago
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He's not 34, so it looks like he's old enough to me.
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- Colonial_Zombie
- 2 months ago
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Was not the argument a few months ago that McCain is "too old" to be president. At what point will people stop harping on irrelevant issues.
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I don't think he's too young but he's certainly too evil.
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- stockgotti
- 2 months ago
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Yes,the minimum age is 35 and some of the best presidents this nation has ever had were both young and above 35. Bill Clinton became president when he was 47. Since when did age become an issue in presidential politics?
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- IndieArtist
- 2 months ago
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Age isn't the issue, it is their ideals and plans for our future.
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- Egnatius212
- 2 months ago
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Of course he's not! What kind of age-related mistakes could B.O. make? As opposed to.......................
If there is a minimum age to be prez,... there should be a maximum age also. 35 years after birth, and 35 years before death. Guesstimated.
Besides, I'd rather have a president going through a mid-life crisis vs. an end-life crisis. -
of course, it's the same ol' kooks. . .
Heres how I see it, take your pick Obama is either
God or Paris Hilton.
Lets examine god first
OBAMA=GOD
He has no history, people blindly worship him, his disiciples are everywhere. People faint at the sight of him. He has an arrogant personality and informs you that you are not on his level and lets you know of his double standards. The man is a mystery
OBAMA= PARIS HILTON
has super rockstar appeal to the mindless (and you don't know why he is famous?) All fluff and no substance. Uses any bit of press to his gain.
God bless america
God bless big oil
God bless mindless obamaholics -
let me put it this way, you either go with a guy who is young and possibly naive but has proven that he can effectively manage a campaign (and thus, is capable of real leadership) and who certainly has more realistic foreign policies, unarguably, amongst other grand things
or you go with a guy who keeps running his campaign practically into the ground through mismanagement, who has a track record of missing important votes (at least for progressives), who lacks knowledge (senility) of basic geography and who (let's be honest) looks older the the first bush we had in office.
just like every other argument about this campaign season, it's really no contest, obama wins -
John F. Kennedy and Theodore Roosevelt were both the youngest men ever elected when they became president and they turned out pretty good.
I'd be happy if we had either one of them to choose from today. -
David was king at 8 years old.Goerge Bush was old enough and he fucked our country up!The biggest shame is that Obama will have to spend his four years cleaning up Bush's fuckups.Then you know it blame the black man.Hey don't get mad this has worked for 400 years! Stupid Aholes!!!!!!!!!
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McCain is collecting SS with one foot in the retirement home, his wife has one foot out of the rehab facility.
Obama has both feet on the ground and is ready to run with America the way it was originally designed to be run...GO OBAMA!!!
(plus, he has his wifes two feet!)
GO OBAMA!!! -
I have great hope for Obama!!!
Go Obama..don't let us down.
He does have a great mess to clean up and the ridiculous Fox media mentality will pick up on that and be all over him like maggots.
Bush's legacy of stealing from us is not apparent yet..no one knows how bad he really has been because it is not under their noses. When it all comes out under Obama he will be blamed for everything unfortunately. They will say see you raised a little baby tax here and there and that i why the country is in financial trouble. They won't point to our treasury being vacuumed out by Haliburton and Blackwater in Iraq..giving billions in cash to his pals.We have a large mountain to climb.
..Bushie reminds me of the kids you know in school who steal from the teacher and parents and give to their classmates to make them like you. -
Age without judgement means nothing. I think McCain has represented this fact well.
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Obama is OLDER than Bill Clinton was when he took office!!!!! He is 46 years old!
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And Obama is old enough to retain correct geographical information. With what faces him, he'll grow old fast enough. -
not too young - just too much a young, inexperienced, non-accomplished politician who ran on the ideal of not being a "normal" politician, but since the general election period began has been everything that a "normal"politician encompasses. good luck dems, should have though about hillary rather than a blank slate.
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- whysoserious
- 2 months ago
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We have too many "Normal" politicians, that is why we are in the position we are in.
Give me the blank slate, and keep your "normal" politicians with experience.
Their experience is exactly why we are where we are now. -
Roosevelt and Kennedy in the U.S.
Bhutto in Pakistan, contentious but well loved and a proven leader.
In Great Brittain, Wilberforce and Pitt both leaders at a young age and together they defeated napoleon and ended slavery in Brittain.
Hell even King Tut and King James I can go on this list.
Leadership isn't about age its about what we do with our lives once we find our responsibility whether we seek it out or it find us. That is the difference between
power and leadership, and that is the difference between wisdom and experience. One is the measure of itself and the other can not be quantified. -
In a word: No. Two more: He's not.
Is McSame too old and completely out of touch and seriously underinformed (or undereducated ... 5th from the bottom of his graduating class? Bravo Johnny boy. Heckuva job.) to be president?
In a word: Yes. Two more: He is.
I mean, c'mon, anyone who tosses out the Iraq/Pakistan border line ... um. Can I get a "D'oh!"-
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- Amber_LaStrega
- 2 months ago
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