What Is The Best Age For A New President?

[Syrinx]

Poll question: What Is The Best Age For A New President?

I just got to thinking about it.

It might be exciting to have the youngest possible candidate (isn't it 35? I can't quite remember.)

But I think experience means something too.

I'd say a guy, or gal, in her/his fifties. Who know's?

[Warren DeMontague]

1. There are astounding people- and assholes- of every age range.

I don't care so much about the chronological age; I just wish we could get someone capable of truly thinking forward. Maybe that would be a 90 year old.

[Hart2008]

2. Gary Hart at 70 thinks forward better than anyone!

He would be 71 on inauguration day and more prescient than anyone in this field. He is a true visionary. Hart predicted 9-11. He also has the most experience, more than anyone in this field.

He is from the Silent Generation that was born in the depression and lived through World War II. To date no one from his generation has captured the Presidency.


:kick: HART 2008! :kick:

[Hart2008]

3. There is some overlap here!

The age ranges should end with a nine not a zero.

:kick: HART 2008! :kick:

[rodeodance]

4. Age discrimination is a real problem in this country and others. As long

as the person is able to carry out his responsiblities, it should not be a factor

[saltpoint]

5. One in which a large majority of a population is literate and self-critical.

One capable of making distinctions better than ours is.

(Yes, I understand your question and poll, but I believe the chronological age of John Kennedy or Gary Hart is much less the point than the capacity of either to inspire and uplift.)

[Hart2008]

6. Amen n/t

[Ninja Jordan]

7. The last option is funny

[Princess Turandot]

8. That option would be used..

to dig up Strom Thurmond and run him for president.

[cleveramerican]

9. voters like a new face, and an old trusted one.

voters like young and vibrant, and they like fatherly wisdom.

the thing is you never can tell who might capture the imagination of the public.

This is our saving grace as a nation.

[LiberalFighter]

10. Democrat or Republican?

If Republican... one that is dead so they can't get elected.

[HereSince1628]

11. The Age of Reason? Nah, follow the money.

Within the Constitutional limits on age, age isn't an issue so much as fund-raising ability.

[frogcycle]

12. Pleistocene n/t