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By bshultz1 Posted in Elections — Comments (9) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

Every time there is an election in America the candidates try to talk about the negative aspects of their opponents. It is natural to do, I mean you do want people to choose you over them, so following that tradition Hillary Clinton, and Barrack Hussein Obama love to point out the negatives for the, assumed, Republican candidate John McCain. But instead of talking about how their healthcare plans differ or how the democrats want to raise taxes on everything that anyone buys, and how McCain wants to continue tax rebates so stimulate our economy, what do they love to focus on as a negative for John McCain? They love to focus on his age.

Now I am no senior staffer for any candidate, but I do not think this is a very strong negative to stand on. I mean yes McCain is older than any other president, if he is elected, but is that a bad thing? McCain has the benefit of seeing many different presidents, including some of the best in our history. He has seen FDR create a socialist nation, essentially, during the great depression because that is what had to be done, though I disagree with a lot of his actions, he saw Eisenhower work to establish America as an international superpower, he saw Kennedy and Johnson commit us to Vietnam, while blaming others, and he saw the consequences (first hand) of what happen when Nixon pulled us out without a victory, and he saw (the best of the best) Ronald Wilson Reagan defeat communism in Russia. Now it might just be me but I think that those are pretty good things to live through, and learn from.

Now does McCain's age really matter?