In 2008, Democrats insisted
that Senator John McCain was too old to be president. At a rally introducing
Hillary Clinton, Congressman John Murtha criticized him for
even running. “It’s no old man’s job,” he said. Obama and Kerry used language suggesting that
McCain was senile. Left-wing activists claimed that he could die of skin cancer at any
moment. Late night comedians turned McCain’s
age into a target. McClatchy headlined a story, “Some wonder if McCain’s too old and
wrinkly to be president.”
There are no stories in which
reporters ask passerby if Hillary is too old and wrinkly to take 3 AM phone
calls. In Newsweek, Anna
Quindlen, a fanatical Hillary supporter, wrote that, “The senator’s pursuit of
the presidency reminds me a bit of those women who decide to have a baby in
their late 50s.” If she has any objection to Hillary’s pursuit of the presidency
while pushing 70, she hasn’t written about it.
By October, spurred by
repeated media attacks on his age, 34 percent of Americans said that McCain was
too old to be president......age
is suddenly no longer an issue. Neither is health. Quindlen emphasized that
McCain couldn’t lift his arms over his head. No one is going to ask how
flexible Hillary Clinton is in body (the political flexibility of the woman who
opposed and supported nearly everything at one time or another is already
renowned)....To Read More.....
No comments:
Post a Comment