Posted on 07/18/2024 1:37:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Joe Biden getting off a plane Credit: Joe Biden, Facebook
After his first bilateral talks with Joe Biden at the White House, the UK prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer addressed the need to set a retirement age for the House of Lords.
The PM expressed his aim to set the retirement age at 80 and although he stated to the Press that “it doesn´t reflect on how other elected representatives are chosen in other countries,” it fuelled the global debate about the age of the US President Joe Biden and his candidacy for the 2024 elections. Following his poor performance at the first US presidential debate and the mistake of calling President Zelensky “President Putin,” at the NATO Summit, Joe Biden caused a wave of worry worldwide; many are doubtful of his abilities to lead the country at age 81.
A survey taken in February found that 59 per cent of Americans believe that both Joe Biden and Donald Trump, aged 78, are too old to be presidential candidates. Either one would reach the record for the oldest sitting US President.
While this is a rare occasion for the US, the Freedom House Organisation revealed that “not free” countries have a median age 68 of national leaders.
The world´s oldest President today is President Paul Biya of Cameroon, aged 90. Biya took office more than 40 years ago. For the US, claimed officially as a “free country,” this would seem impossible but today, it is one of the only three “free” countries to have a leader aged above 70.
The Constitution
In his recent speech about UK´s new government plans, King Charles III spoke about “modernising the constitution,” for a better future. The King is six years younger than US President Biden.
The American Constitution states in Article 2 that a President must be at least 35 years old, yet there is no limit to how old a President can be. The Founding Fathers certainly thought about the presidential age centuries ago when they made this decision.
“Age was the best corollary they had for sound judgement, maturity and what we might refer to as wisdom,” said F. Melton Jr., a history professor at Middle Georgia State University. If there´s a minimum, why is there not a maximum? Is someone over the age of 70 able to drive a country forward? And do we want to go forward at all?
Scared of change?
Today, nearly 80 per cent of US adults surveyed support having upper age limits for federal elected officials, including the president, according to the Pew Research Center. However, it was the same people who had chosen the top two Presidential candidates, both of whom had already served once. Is America scared of change?
Doctor´s view
While we´ve developed Cryonics, we haven´t developed immortality. According to the US National Center for Health Statistics in 2022, the life expectancy of men is 74. Both Presidential candidates are past retirement age and past even life expectancy age.
President Biden´s odd handshakes with ghosts and illogical sentences have led to medical experts urging the President to publicly undergo neurological testing; specialists say he shows classic features of neurodegeneration, which in turn, could even progress into dementia.
But who can claim an age at which one is no longer capable? For, in the modern world, life expectancy and medical developments continue to surprise us; perhaps, we should reconsider our old understanding of age and move beyond the numbers.
What. The. Bleep 🤬?!
Stupid and retarded European broad.
What? The President is showing signs of neurodegeneration?
How could everyone on the planet miss that until the debate?
All eight billion people never saw that coming!
sarc
The founder of Home Depot was interview in the booth on Fox News. Age 88 and sharp as can be.
That 98 year old WWII veteran at the podium last night was about 90% or maybe 95% of his younger days. A little trouble on a couple of lines but that may have been from stage fright facing tens of thousands in person and millions on TV. He seemed like a modest man not used to the spotlight.
The Who (Daltrey 80, Townshend 79), the Rolling Stones (Jagger 80, Richards 79,Wood 76) and Bob Dylan (83 and on world tours all year) are in their later years and even the blues greats Ry Cooder (77) and Taj Mahal (82) have a newly recorded album Get On Board that came out in late 2022.
We all age differently.
Term limits makes a lot more sense. If we have a limit on the presidency, so should we also have one on Congress.
No, Father Time catches up with everyone.
Apples and oranges. There is no comparison between Trump’s mentation and Biden’s.
Age is nothing but a number that Joe Biden no longer can count up to.
If one does not have stroke-caused brain damage, age is just a number!
However, if one has stroke-caused brain damage, age is a good excuse to throw in the towel! Bye-bye, biden!
My 94-year-old mother retained her extraordinary memory, communications skills, puzzle solving, common sense, depth of problem solving and mathematics problem solving in her head until her last days when an infection took her.
The number of your age is not the determining factor in a person’s capacities.
UNLESS... You’re too old when you’re Reagan. You’re too old when you’re Bob Dole. You’re too old when you’re McCain. You’re too old when you’re Trump. BUT NOT Biden and the rest of his decaying orb of democrats.
“We all age differently’’.
Indeed. I’ve seen 40 year olds move like they were 100 and I’ve seen 90 year old women knock the living snot out of nurses in ‘’long term care facilities’’(that’s what ‘’nursing homes are called now) two and tree at a time.
Yes indeed we DO age differently.
Any doctor worth their shingle will tell you that.
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