McCain’s Age and his Veep

Ronald Reagan presently holds the record for being the oldest president upon taking office. He was just a few weeks short of his 70th birthday on January 20, 1981. That record could be shot down if McCain were to go on to be president. With a DOB of 8/29/36, McCain will be 72 next January – the month he would take office.

Sugar coat it any way you want but he’s old. Old as the hills, old as dirt, oldie olson, etc. Let’s face it, at that age, he can die any time. That makes the choice of VP all the more important. McCain’s VP will need to be ready to step in handily and steadily if McCain’s time is up during his term. McCain has not dropped any names but AZ Central drew up this composite of the choice:

• Come from outside of Washington and probably be a governor. That would offset McCain’s 25 years as a senator and congressman on Capitol Hill and his lack of executive-branch experience.
• Be more conservative than McCain, who faces ongoing criticism from the political right for his past cooperation with Democrats on issues such as immigration reform and campaign-finance law. Someone on good terms with the evangelical Christian community might help, too.
• The candidate probably will hail from the East, more likely the South.
• The candidate likely will be younger than McCain, who will turn 72 in August.

Hmm. That sounds like Huckabee. Huckabee is still in the race and people are wondering why. Perhaps he’s trying to set himself up for a VP spot and then pop in as president if and when the old man dies? Interesting scenario. The last time a president died in office (of something other than assasination) is 1945 (Roosevelt in his 4th term).

Getting back to Reagan, I am old enough to remember his 2nd term and it wasn’t a pretty sight. There was some evidence that Alzheimers was already setting in during that term. Had YouTube been around in those days, you would have seen videos of him stumbling and forgetting lines in speeches. A 2nd term for McCain would be even more of an Oldie Olson affair. Just sayin.

Who will be McCain’s VP choice

Barack Obama – The Audacity of Charisma

Let me just say that I would not vote for Barack Obama. Let’s get that out of the way right now so you know where I stand. It has nothing to with his color, his Muslim sounding name, or that he came from a broken family. Those things WILL make a difference to some people I can guarantee that, but I will not go there.

What it has to do with is primarily two things.

1 – He has no real leadership experience. I don’t consider a senator to be a leadership position. Senators are ‘team members’, they are not leaders. Even the whips and majority leaders are not leaders in the context of the skills required to be president. Before he was a senator, he was an attorney. Again, not a true leadership position. A leadership position would be a state governor, a mayor of a large city, or a CEO of a very large corporation perhaps. He has none of those things on his resume. Oh yeah, and he’s an author too. Not a leader.

2 – Related to no real leadership experience is the lack of accomplishments in area of leadership. His sheeple will often point to the bills he authored in the senate. Ok, but again, that’s the senate. He wrote two books? That’s an accomplishment, granted, but how would that help the U.S. as president? He could write kick ass letters and speeches I suppose.

The one thing Barack Obama does have in abundance is charisma. Not just ordinary charisma, but the kind of charisma that rallies up large number of people and gets them excited. So think about that for a minute. All these sheeple that follow Obama are doing so largely on the basis of his charisma?

That’s dangerous. Wake up sheeple!