I get tired of people point out age. Somehow Jerry Brown can manage to have held jobs as mayor in Oakland and Governor of biggest state in history of the US for 16 years but is too old to be elected President? Meanwhile the median age for a Senator is 70?
IT is another form of evaluating people based on something other than their ability to perform the task at hand. An 80 year old can be elected president and the country will be jsut fine.
Another unhealthy thing that has happened is we expect the President to run for re-election. This dates back to even before radio, and LBJ is the only example of anyone not running for 2nd term, dating back to TR, and before him I think before the civil war.,
The Presidency has become a behemoth, not a coequal branch of government or we would not make such a big deal about these things. Maybe it is a holdover from the idea of a monarch.
Yes a man who'd be 86 at the end of his term is too old to serve in the Presidency. Not sure what's complicated about this?
