McCain's age a problem for some - him?

McCain 71 + Jindal 36 / 2 = 53.5.
Turns out McCain with Jindal is not too much older than Obama.

Ageism, sexism racism ... Please give us all a break and examine people for the content of their Character rather than these tedious distractions. I support Obama but leave the age of John McCain out of the nuanced bias ... and the same goes for the less than savory sexism that many displayed towards Senator Clinton during these primaries.

Sadly many voters in America still need to examine themselves before tossing at another human being ... Good Night and Good Luck!

Age is an issue because we have too many old senile folks in the Government running the system by select committees and their hierarchy. The US Senate itself is the most unrepresentative body with approval rating of less then 30%. It is inefficient, dysfunctional and unproductive. Half the SOBs wear dipper, cannot hear, crawl and need an aid to guide them around their place of work. These good full of wisdom folks should retire and let the newer generation make decisions for the lives that they have to live instead of the old folks that have already lived 75% of their lives.
Normal average standard for retirement is 65 with options to 70.

As for McCain, extraordinary events like 5 years as a POW and cancer has taken its toll. The man has often lost his bearings. His fitness can only be determined by and independent panel of experts, who should give him a complete physical, medical, mental and psychological examination. Health care records by a couple of family friendly, party line quacks is just that.

I think it is just as silly and inappropriate for the press to harp on McCain's age as it is Clinton'd gender.

What counts is a record of decency and intelligence. McCain fails on both those.

McCain was not the brightest tree in the forest when he was younger, 5th from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy, and he sure isn't a bright and shining ball of fire at 71. Age discrimination is supposed to be a no no in hiring, along with gender and race, but there's no law that says you can't use that as a factor in voting. Most people are willing to be fair and listen to what he says he has to offer, and then make up their minds when voting. But when you listen to John McCain these days he leaves a lot to be desired. We all may be 71 one day and don't want to be judged negatively for that alone, but McCain's trump card of experience translates only into having been around Washington for so long.

On Larry King the other night, Jesse Ventura raised an interesting point: Federal employees are required to retire at the age of 65. Ventura wondered why the U.S. government considers people too old to work anymore at age 65, yet we support a man far past that age to actually run the country, with all the pressures that go along with that. I'm not a big Ventura fan and I respect McCain, but I thought it was an interesting point.

McCain's problem isn't his age. It's his unswerving support for Bush, his inability to distinguish Sunni from Shiite, his "safe" stroll through Baghdad surrounded by an infantry battalion, his self-professed ignorance of economics, and his lobbyist-run campaign. Age has nothing to do with it.

I heard Jesse Ventura on "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me" playing the "Not My Job" portion of the show. A point he made on there was why are the presidential candidates still collecting a salary? They aren't in DC doing their jobs.

If someone is in good health, one cannot simply predict when someone will die. We read in the media all the time of young people dying unexpectedly. There was a lot of silly talk that when Reagan was running that he would die in office. He became the longest-lived President in history at that time.

John Adams, the 2nd President, lived past the age of 90, and this is when medical care was far less effective than it is today,

Absent any health problems, McCain's age should not be an issue.

Age is a problem playing sports and doing many jobs! And especially as the president of the United States of America! It matters how you look when you stand toe to toe with dictators and leaders around the world. And it also means something when you campaign in front of the cameras and have to address the American People. And it will be terrible to have our president die on us or cost us because of his age. I want a THINKING PRESIDENT this time, not some propped up puppet with a hand in his back!!!!

How many of those who said McCain is too old wouldn't vote Republican under any circumstances? If they are already committed to Obama and would vote for him even if he were dead (Democrats do that; look at the election Mel Carnahan won after he'd been killed in a plane crash, and how many voted for John Stroger after he'd had the stroke that incapacitated him), their saying that McCain is too old doesn't mean much politically.