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In reply to the discussion: Is America ready for a female/female ticket in 2020? [View all]PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,841 posts)well into their 70's and 80's, that's a huge mistake. The sort of stamina and quickness of mind that's needed to be President of the United States isn't found in the 8th and 9th decades of life.
Heck, I've more than once heard people proclaim that they're glad they had all their kids in their early twenties, because now that they're thirty they can't imagine dealing with little kids at that advanced age. Running this country probably requires at least as much stamina as dealing with two or three kiddies.
Don't get me wrong, I'm still completely heart broken that Warren wasn't willing to challenge Clinton, and then that Sanders didn't win the nomination. But Clinton was the one who was nominated. She lost. Her day is done. We absolutely need to be looking to the future, not to the past. Keep in mind that one complaint liberals have against conservatives is that the latter always look to the past as a better place, and we don't agree with that view.
We don't need leaders whose prime was several decades ago, whose world view was shaped by events that are not the events shaping the current world. We need young blood, young thinking.
And I'm Elizabeth Warren's age. so I'm not exactly a resentful Millennial.