Young at heart, if you will.

Should he win, He will have a good VP. A good cabinet. Good advisors.

Compare his mind and fitness level to Trump. Much younger, fitter, smarter, quick on his feet. He’s in better condition than many mid 50’s men I know.

beat Trump.

Frankly, if I have a choice between a guy pushing 80 and dozens of other candidates who are not pushing 80, I'll take the latter.

Would be 75 at that time. Not much different

And Ruth Bader Ginsburg is in her 90's.

RBG - hell yeah! Would she? Nope. Would Eastwood? Nope.

But if someone thinks they can do the job - I wouldn't discount them. This includes Sanders, and Buttigieg.

is inherently easier than being the President? Don't be so sure of that. It requires a lot of detailed thinking without as much help as the President would have.

Being the President has its perks, too. You need information; you have a whole staff to get it for you.

And neither one of them is president or is running for president, so I don't see your point.

Another hit job.

so back to ageism!



ONLY!!! 2019 and beyond.

I will be 80 in January.

is what makes one's faculties duller. Ever notice a lot of these Washington people never retire? It must be very stimulating work. It's too much fun to give up. People can't wait to retire, because they are sick of their job and its stresses. Being in Congress, etc., obviously does not do that. Thus Pelosi, RBG, Feinstein, Bernie, Biden and others are still at it.

He puts on ll miles a show..

Are you under the belief that age affects all people precisely the same way and at precisely the same time? If not, your anecdotal data seems spurious at best.

The Orange Blob is 73 - and he looks like death warmed over.

It's amazing how he still keeps going, given the shape his heart and liver must be in (and everything else!).

Most likely that would be his VP. No worries, in this case Harris will do great as his replacement.

at minimum. Obviously a decade-plus of pristine, high-functioning life expectancy is preferred.

But I will sure as hell vote for LITERALLY ANYONE who has secured the Democratic Party nomination, regardless of age or health status, in the general election given that the alternative is Dolt45....

I wondered that last time with 3 older candidates- Trump, Clinton and Sanders were all pushing 70 or more. Would the VP candidate become top of ticket? Or would the party have a procedure to pick someone else? With both Biden and Sanders as serious contenders this time, it's a question the party ought to answer.

The same would apply whether a nominee died or was seriously incapacitated, such as with a major stroke. While this could happen at any age, the chances are much higher with a candidate in their 70s or 80s.

Also the reality is that most older people will develop some level of senility. We've suffered through that with Reagan and now, I believe, Trump on top of all Trump's other flaws.While both Biden and Sanders so far seem to have all of their marbles, how will they be a year or a year and a half from now? Let alone 4 years or 8 years later?

I prefer a younger candidate this time around because we should be grooming someone capable of not only winning election, but also winning reelection to a second term.

"If a candidate died after receiving their party's presidential nomination, their party would hold an emergency committee meeting for delegates to vote for a new nominee...at that point it's whoever the party thinks has the best chance at still winning the election, whether it's the runner-up from the primaries or somebody who wasn't even previously running for president, and that person requires a majority vote from the national committee in order to receive the nomination."

.... actually believe that Joe Biden, his wife, his family, and especially his physicians did not take his health into consideration when making his decision to run for president? I am 100% convinced that if there were any foreseeable health problems for Joe Biden, he would not have decided to run. I cannot fathom Biden or his wife Jill putting his family and the country at risk unless they were absolutely confident he was 100% fit to serve. The ageism card has already been played and it did not go anywhere. What makes anyone think it will gain any traction now?

"What would happen if he should die after winning the primary but before the election?"


That may be asked validly of any current candidate.

It does beg the question though: at what arbitrary age limit should we begin the pretense of concern for a candidate, on what what objective measure is that based on?

If no specific age is provided as a reponse, we can safely presume the advertised concern is indeed, alleged at best.

His age is definitely showing. 😕 I just hope he can hang in there because we need him. And I hope he will step aside if there is any doubt because we must win next year.

Neither would be up to being President. However, my father could have handled it at 78, no problem. And at 82.

Everyone ages differently. At 95, neither of them are doing well. It's remarkable they're both still alive, really. Looking at them as they are now, I do not expect either of them to hit 96. That will be sad, although my mother's mind is gone from Alzheimers, which didn't start until she was almost 90. My father's mind is working OK, but his body just keeps getting frailer and frailer.

But Joe Biden, at his current age, seems to be doing fine in both mind and body. He'll probably live into his 90s, too. He has that look about him.

Different people age differently. I'm 73. I wouldn't want to run for office, but I never wanted to run for office, so that's not surprising. Could I handle the job? Well mentally and physically, I could, but I don't have the experience and education for that job. Joe Biden does. If I didn't think he was capable of it, you wouldn't see his face at the bottom of this post.

So much for his age.