New at Reason
Steve Chapman asks the question that drives John McCain into moments of blind, teenager-insulting rage.
Comments to "New at Reason":
Cracker's Boy | September 10, 2007, 8:06am | #
Like "a president... growing befuddled by routine tasks -- or... a president, wearied by age, [without] the energy needed to perform well" would be a bad thing?CB
Haven't you heard? 70 is the new 59. But he is starting to get his geezer on.
Bubba Zanetti | September 10, 2007, 8:29am | #
John Who?Oh, you mean the guy who sabotaged his own candidacy years ago with McCain-Feingold?
BakedPenguin | September 10, 2007, 8:42am | #
Am I the only one who thinks he wasn't joking when he said he'd draft that kid if he won? I bet the Secret Service already has his name on file.creech | September 10, 2007, 8:54am | #
McCain's put downs of young people is hardly new. A colleague heard him make several nasty rejoinders at a speech at Yale last year.Ask anyone who has passed 60 and you'll probably find they have less tolerance for stress, less patience, less desire to "waste time" looking at alternatives. I don't know that we'd want those traits in any president, even a Libertarian one.
Dan T. | September 10, 2007, 9:47am | #
Like "a president... growing befuddled by routine tasks -- or... a president, wearied by age, [without] the energy needed to perform well" would be a bad thing?Not if you long for the Reagan administration like many do.
I'm less worried about a 72-year-old Ron Paul, since his goal is to do as little as possible outside of making the Federal government smaller. He might get bored strolling around Washington D.C. saying "You're fired!" 2 or 3 million times, but that's a completely different kind of tired.
J sub D | September 10, 2007, 10:25am | #
I bet the Secret Service already has his name on file.I don't know about the secret service, but the selective sevice will shortly. ;-(
mk | September 10, 2007, 11:32am | #
rho,That's a good point. I think we all could find heretofore unknown reserves of energy if we were given the opportunity to do such a thing.
Vote Curmudgeon in 2008!
NeonCat | September 10, 2007, 11:55am | #
"August 15, 2009 - President McCain made an impromptu speech today to a group of people on the Mall - 'Hey! You kids! Get off my lawn!!!'"I, too, found McCain's joke in the worst possible taste. Maybe authority is the revenge age takes on youth. Hey, did I just make up an aphorism? Anyway, way to deflect question about your own competence with a "joking" threat of bodily harm. Douche.