Biden, turning 80, faces an age-old question: How old is too old to be president?

NPR ^ | 11/20/2022 | Ron Elvin

[ChicagoConservative27]

It is one of the most replayed moments in the history of presidential debates.

Standing on a stage in Kansas City in October 1984, President Ronald Reagan was asked the question that was on most everyone's mind. He was the oldest president ever, and had been described as being "very tired" after an earlier debate. Did he have any questions in his mind about his ability to function if deprived of sleep during a national security crisis?

Reagan, 73 at the time, said, "Not at all." And, after scowling for a moment, he submitted to a flicker of a smile as he added, "I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit — for political purposes – my opponent's youth and inexperience."

[ChildOfThe60s]

How demented is too demented to be president?

Is being incapable of reading the teleprompter too demented?

[From The Deer Stand]

For Biden it’s 40.

[curious7]

In other words, physiological age, not chronological age. Humans don’t all age at the same rate due to genetics, environment and luck.

[x]

It's the same guy. You can still see that stupid half-smile on Biden today. The eye color change is weird, but there are medical conditions that come with aging that make that happen. Dilated pupils can also look like an eye color change. Contacts at some point are also a possibility. Bloody-eyed Biden during the debates was blue-eyed.

[Peter ODonnell]

You have to laugh, of the last four presidents, we are asked to believe that George W Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden are three of the four most qualified people to be president of the United States. That right there is causing me to laugh uncontrollably, with occasional shifts to shouts of “make it stop.”

[C210N]

We would have gotten more qualified presidents if we were allowed to elect them.

[Newtoidaho]

All I want for Christmas is for this ancient senile rotting corpse to croak.

[jmacusa]

The nose of the man of the left appears to be much more prominent than the nose of the man on the right.

[ballplayer]

That’s funny he has been President for 2 years and they just figure that out.
I smell a rat,it couldn’t be that Donald Trump is running again could it?
Oh perish the thought