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Washington - On Hillary Clinton's Age, Republican Rivals Imply -- But Never Say -- She's Old
REuters ^ | may 1, 2015 | Staff

Posted on 05/03/2015 4:23:00 AM PDT by lbryce

Her campaign barely three weeks old, Hillary Clinton already has been attacked by Republicans on everything from donations to her family’s charitable foundation, to her tenure as secretary of state and her ties to Wall Street. But her rivals, and the political action committees that support them, are treading more carefully on one incendiary subject: her age . If elected in November 2016, Clinton would be, at 69, the second-oldest person to take the presidential oath for the first time, behind only Ronald Reagan, who turned 70 weeks after being sworn into office in 1981.

Questions of health and fitness for the presidency dogged two former candidates of a similar age, Bob Dole in the 1996 election and John McCain in 2008, each of whom was 71 at this point in the race. Time magazine featured Dole on the cover asking whether he was “too old” for the job. McCain was so determined to show that he was healthy that he often put in back-breaking campaign days.

“I do think age is an issue in a presidential campaign,” said Steve Schmidt, who was McCain’s campaign manager. “There is a thin line between seasoned and decrepit.”

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Civility and manners will never get the Republicans anywhere.And if that's the reason they're not talking about her ready-to-donate-her-body-to science (not that they would take it) then they're bigger fools that I thought. Maybe they're thinking she's got so many other negative things about her saying that she's ready for the glue factory really begs the question what difference would it make.

But with Hillary there's on thing never to lose sight of;Never give her a break or else you'll be sorry. Being a 69 year old lesbian or not. Her age and birthday she be announced every day and that's what I'll be doing in my pings list.

HILLARY'S BIRTHDAY IS OCTOBER 26, 1947 .Pas it on

1 posted on 05/03/2015 4:23:01 AM PDT by lbryce
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To: lbryce; JPG; Sarge; Vigilanteman; SERKIT; Talisker; upchuck; Rocky; N. Theknow

pings


2 posted on 05/03/2015 4:25:17 AM PDT by lbryce (Obama:Misbegotten, Godforsaken Bastard Offspring of Satan And Medusa.)
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That's PASS it ON.

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3 posted on 05/03/2015 4:28:44 AM PDT by lbryce (Obama:Misbegotten, Godforsaken Bastard Offspring of Satan And Medusa.)
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I don’t understand how a 75 year old woman can hope to be the choice of millennials. That’s two generations removed from their reality.


4 posted on 05/03/2015 4:32:11 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: lbryce

I KNEW Ronald reagan and you’re no Ronald Reagan.


5 posted on 05/03/2015 4:33:20 AM PDT by knarf
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You don't have to say she's old. Just behold her ugly mug...


6 posted on 05/03/2015 4:33:33 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
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OLD & TIRED


7 posted on 05/03/2015 4:38:36 AM PDT by CMailBag
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There are many, many reasons she is unfit to hold the Presidency.

Her age is the least of them.

8 posted on 05/03/2015 4:39:44 AM PDT by TontoKowalski
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Let’s make it a point to harp on her age then.


9 posted on 05/03/2015 4:44:03 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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To: lbryce

She aint in no ways tired


10 posted on 05/03/2015 4:44:14 AM PDT by AndrewB (FUBO)
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To: Sgt_Schultze
Children today are ... imo ... by and large ... missing a lot of building blocks in the good ship America.

They have no clue WHAT an American is and because of the subliminal indoctrination that they are American by birth with NO instruction explaining their reality, they accept almost everything else as an innate right

Thus, it is the right to be gay, left, with health care, college indoctrination, etc.


So the understanding that a person of age deserves respect for their wisdom is non existent, because the the whole concept of wisdom is never taught nor is it implied in anything that might be referred to as education


I don't think the cankled beast has a chance, but I still have trepidation about how the election will turn out

Kids come out of high school with no clue WHAT a Republican or Democrat IS and will either use the leftist flavor of the month of fall back on the safe "I'm a democrat because mom and dad are democrats" ... thus relieving them of any thought process

Ask the kid at the check out counter who they plan to vote for ... "Wha ? .... I don't vote"

11 posted on 05/03/2015 4:46:34 AM PDT by knarf
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http://future.wikia.com/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_%28Joe%27s_World2%29

12 posted on 05/03/2015 4:48:18 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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The general public says outright that she’s a boozed up old grannie.


13 posted on 05/03/2015 4:51:08 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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crudy


14 posted on 05/03/2015 4:51:15 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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Remember how the left tried to savage Reagan about being too old and senile?

That Nancy Reagan had to tell him what to say?


15 posted on 05/03/2015 4:55:14 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: lbryce

It’s pretty rich for the party of Romney, McCain, Dole, Poppy and Ronny to run against Hill’s age.

There are so many better reasons for her not to be president.


16 posted on 05/03/2015 4:56:35 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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OLD & TIRED

Rode hard and put away wet.

17 posted on 05/03/2015 4:56:56 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: RoosterRedux

Is Bill dating again ?


18 posted on 05/03/2015 4:59:01 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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Communist leaders are routinely very old. They don’t have to be mentally adroit, as the communist apparatus they oversea pretty much runs itself.


19 posted on 05/03/2015 4:59:40 AM PDT by samtheman ( BushClinton. The Yesterday Candidate.)
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To: TontoKowalski

I disagree; I think her age is very important. Unlike Reagan, she is neither fit nor dynamic. She looks and acts old and decrepit, hag-toothed, weezened, bent over, past it, wrinkled, faded and fading more, addled, confused, directionless, muddled, disoriented, distracted, increasingly infirm, just a few of the descriptors of a person well past her prime. You have to have a certain energy level to do this job and she ain’t got it.


20 posted on 05/03/2015 4:59:49 AM PDT by laconic
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