Posted on 11/20/2008 9:06:01 AM PST by Borges
Joe Biden turns 66 tomorrow. That makes him 19 years older than Barack Obama. The last time we had a VP who was that much older than the President was 1853 with President Franklin Pierce and VP William R.D. King.
LOL! I’m trying to think ... what was going on back in 1853?
Interestingly, King County, Washington was named for William R. D. King. However, the fact that King owned slaves on his Alabama plantation in Alabama reneers him politically incorrect in the liberal Seattle of today, so the county’s name now honors Martin Luther King.
There was an even bigger age difference in 1904 on the Democratic ticket--Alton B. Parker, the candidate for President, was 52 and his running mate, Henry G. Davis, was 81.
The Democratic platform of 1904 accused the Roosevelt administration of being "spasmodic, erratic, sensational, spectacular, and arbitrary." Maybe that's a line which will be applicable to the Obama administration.
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