Posted on 10/25/2019 7:36:55 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Bernie Sanders insists he feels better than ever less than a month after heart surgery, but his return to the campaign trail this week sparked new questions about the unusually old age of the Democratic Party’s leading 2020 presidential candidates.
Both Sanders, 78, and Joe Biden, 76, suggest their age isn’t a major issue, but voters, particularly older voters, aren’t so sure.
Gordon Lundberg, a 71-year-old retired Lutheran pastor from Ames, said candidates’ health is a key issue for him because he understands how it feels to age. He’s leaning toward Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts because, even though she’s 70, “she’s the most liberal and she’s not got one foot in the grave yet.”
“Bernie’s just too darn old. And so is Biden,” Lundberg said. “They look old, they sound old, they are old. They fall in the shower, and they get heart attacks!”
Lundberg is not alone.
Polling has suggested that a significant number of Americans believe a candidate in his or her late 70s is too old to be president. If elected, Sanders would take office having already exceeded the average U.S. life expectancy of 78.6 years, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. Biden would be just a few months away.
Warren would be the oldest new president in history, eclipsing Trump, who himself eclipsed Ronald Reagan. Biden and Sanders would be older on their first day in office than Reagan, a two-term president, was on his last. …
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When Trump ran the liberals all claimed he was too old. Typical hypocrites.
If Lundberg is supporting Faucahontas, he’s either an ELCA heretic or an udiot.
Funny, Bernie ran when Trump was running. Hillary was passing out.
Sanders and Biden have one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.
Uh, that would be idiot, Mr. Keyboard.
You know what’s funny. All this talk from the Dems about elevating people of color, women, etc. and the front-runners happen to be two old-ass white guys.
1) When’s the last time AP ran any honest story and was worthwhile to read? When we were watching the Brady Bunch as a first run show.
2) Lower the presidential age to match AOC’s age. President AOC and Veep Tlaib. No need for Halloween fright costumes, that thought is scary enough.
“Both Sanders, 78, and Joe Biden, 76, suggest their age isn’t a major issue,” HaHaHaHa. Asinine Press can lie to your face and pretend it never happened. What pure unadulterated crap from an organization that pretends to be a “news” source. It is not a “news” source but an adjunct to the rabid left —AKA the RAT Party,the democrats.
Like the Jonathan Winters Maude Frickert routine, telling the interviewer “Don’t say ‘this undertaking’ to me, sonny. I’m old!”
Quote:
Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. - David Mamet.
....and what the Rats REALLY don’t want to talk about is the fact that Trump has the energy and enthusiasm of a 40 year old.
Stand Trump next to Biden, Sanders and Warren, the latter three geezers clearly look like they belong in a Rat nursing home. (“It’s 4 o’clock, is it time for dinner yet?!? Where’s my Hurry Cane? What planet am I on?”)
It might have been Maude who said, “Every morning I read the obituaries ... and if I’m not in them I make coffee.”
**If Lundberg is supporting Faucahontas, he’s either an ELCA heretic or an udiot.**
He probably doesn’t teach repentance toward God, since it might offend some offenders of righteousness.
Acts 2:40 has Peter telling the offenders, among others things, to save themselves “from this untoward generation”.
Bernie is in better shape than Hillary even though he is older.
If Bernie took office he’d be pushing 80. I’m pushing 80 myself, so I know that’s plain crazy!
Maybe we should elect AOC to president so we could get a highway to Hawaii built.
Well, Bernie seems to take good care of himself, and if you can think of him as a Jewish comedian, his life expectancy should be way up there.
George Burns (100)
Carl Reiner (97)
Mel Brooks (93)
Milton Berle (93)
Neil Simon (91)
Jackie Mason (91)
It’s not the age, it’s the fact the both of these morons couldn’t operate a fart out their asses without a manual, little less run a country. Trump is in his 70’s and a freakin genius.
They said the same about Reagan. I know. I was one of them.
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