Posted on 07/07/2004 10:04:09 AM PDT by Willie Green
You hear a lot of talk about all of the angst and emotional turmoil that come along with turning 30 or 40 -- why, I even heard Larry King whine for a whole hour on CNN a few months back about what a drag it was to turn 70 -- but the most traumatic (and, sadly, overlooked) birthday of them all really has to be 35. Reaching one score and 15 years packs a wallop like no other age, and no less an authority than the Constitution of these here United States tells us that this is so. The Founding Fathers, never ones to sugarcoat things, put it starkly, right there in Article II, Section 1: "No person except a natural born citizen ... shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of 35 years..."
If those couple of dozen words aren't scarier to you than everything Stephen King has ever written down, here's an exercise that I want you to try:
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
Never trust anyone under 35...
If we amended the Constitution to set the minimum age for 60 years old, then in 200 years columnists would write 'What were they thinking?!? Man, I still handn't figured out how to seperate my laundry at 60. At 60, I was still skateboarding all day, sleeping on my friends couch, and looking for a job. Being President is for people who are at least 170.'
To me, 36 was the most significant age (so far). At 36 you have been an adult for the same length of time that you were a child.
I am 18 with 25 years of experience.
"Never trust anyone over thirty" . . Max Frost
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