How old is John McCain?

Lone Star Times ^ | 04/18/08 | David Benzion

[mnehring]

John McCain was born on August 29th, 1936.

So here’s an idiotic lefty “attack” ad designed to spook all of us into into freaking out over how old that actually is. (YouTube link at source article)

Among the items mentioned, the ad notes that John McCain is older then…

• The Golden Gate Bridge
• Plutonium
• Coke in a can
• McDonalds
• Velcro

OK, smart-a**, that sword cuts both ways; here’s my list of things John McCain is older than.

• John McCain is older than betraying national security secrets on the front page of the New York Times.
• John McCain is older than the fundamental break-down of family structure among the poor.
• John McCain is older than Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
• John McCain is older than having to explain to your children why everyone on the TV is talking about the President’s penis.
• John McCain is older than the ban on lawn darts.
• John McCain is older than 9/11 Troofers.
• John McCain is older than the ACLU being taken over by radicals.
• John McCain is older than Hillary’s secretive health-care task force.
• John McCain is older than the public sphere being filled with near-pornographic advertising that is impossible to avoid.
• John McCain is older than facial moisturizers for men.
• John McCain is older than Gangsta Rap.
• John McCain is older than politicized CIA agents distorting a National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear program because they don’t like the President’s (i.e., their boss’) policies.
• John McCain is older than Roe v. Wade.
• John McCain is older than Michael Moore.

I’m all for change and progress… but some of what’s “new” since 1936 hasn’t been an unqualified improvement, and there’s nothing wrong with preserving (or trying to recover) the good while getting rid of the bad and embracing the future.

So by all means, if the Democrats want to have a debate over what John McCain is older than, let’s have it.

I suspect a lot of folks haven’t had to wait until 2008 to finally find something about America to be proud of.

[devistate one four]

But he is still younger than when the gipper defeated the soviets!

[Brandonmark]

You can’t say anything negative about Obama without being called racist or about Hillary because that’s sexist, but guess there is no problem among dems saying that someone’s age should disqualify them.

BTW, seems like the Pope is having pretty good trip in US and he’s 10 years older.

[TomGuy]

the Pope is having pretty good trip in US and he’s 10 years older.

I watched him on TV this morning deplaning, coming down those steps. Dang, he was moving. I can't move that fast, and he has 20 years on me.

[Fiji Hill]

Here's my list.

McCain is older than

The Fair Deal
UCLA’s first Rose Bowl game
Wickard versus Filburn
The Office of Price Administration
The Greening of America
The New Frontier
The Euro
FDR’s “court packing” plan
The Berlin Wall
“This Land is Your Land”
CAFÉ standards
The Great Society
The Family Assistance Plan
The Affluent Society
Affirmative Action
“A Horse With No Name”
The Equal Rights Amendment
Red China
Silent Spring
The Summer of Love
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Veggie burgers
The Munich Agreement
Beatlemania
SALT I
Beatniks
The EPA
“Disco Duck”
Camelot
The Black Panther Party
the Bay of Pigs invasion
Jane Fonda
“We Want Willkie”
Moveon.org
OSHA
The Port Huron Statement
Woodstock
“Primal Scream” therapy
the United Nations
"The Vagina Monologs"
the Pueblo incident
”Saturday Night Fever”
the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
the Emergent Church
The Truman scandals
MTV
the Peace Symbol
People for the American Way
Common Cause
Pugwash conferences
LSD
The Berkeley Free Speech movement
“Don’t Worry, Be Happy”

[DPMD]

And:

Ted Bloato Boozo Kennedy is not older than our memory of Chappaquiddick.
Hillary is not older than our recollection of her criminal behavior on the Watergate Committee and in the White House.
Bob Byrd is not older than our memory of his KKK days, during which he probably ordered and/or participated in lynchings.
There’s more, but if you don’t get the point, it’s moot.

[chessplayer]

I think the age thing may be important. Look how fast the Presidency aged Clinton and Bush. And they are a heckuva lot younger than McCain is now.

[Oztrich Boy]

Jeez, we have Baby Boomers turning 65 -- are they gonna think "This guy is 7 years older than me! No way is he competent!"

OTOH every Baby Boomer is older than Obama - are they going to think "I'm past it, let the kid run things"

(I guess that isn't really OTOH)

[FredZarguna]

Is one of the presidential candidates too Black? He is 50% more Black than I am. Or, if your preference is toward prejudice against Whites, he's 50% too White.

Is one of the presidential candidates too X chromosome rich? This candidate has 2.2% more X chromosomes than I have. This is an even greater excess of X chromosomes than the % of excess possessed by people with Klinefelters Syndrome. Those suffering from Klinefelters frequently display deficits in executive functions. Should someone with possible executive difficulties be President?

Silly prejudices? Yes. But not sillier than a prejudice against age, which apparently is acceptable to liberals.

[FredZarguna]

Of course - a case in point that should not be made is Ol’ Jimmah Carter (age 84) wandering around the earth making a damn fool of himself.

Not pertinent. Jimmy was making a fool of himself when he was 52 and staying in DC.