Former President Jimmy Carter. Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
Daily Mail: Jimmy Carter, 94, says there should be an age limit on the presidency and hints to Democratic 2020 contenders that he couldn't have handled the office at 80
* Former President Jimmy Carter said he doesn't believe he could have managed the most powerful office in the world as an 80-year-old
* Carter didn't tie his answer to any of his fellow Democrats running for president
* The 39th US president was 56 when he left office in 1981
* Two leading 2020 candidates, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, would turn 80 during their terms if elected - Biden is 76, while Sanders is 78
Weeks shy of his 95th birthday, former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday he doesn't believe he could have managed the most powerful office in the world at 80 years old.
Carter, who earlier this year became the longest-lived chief executive in American history, didn't tie his comments to any of his fellow Democrats running for president, but two leading 2020 candidates, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, would turn 80 during their terms if elected.
Biden is 76. Sanders is 78.
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WNU Editor: He has a point. I am 59, and there are things that I just do not have the energy to do anymore. Case in point is this blog. In the past I could easily do 30 to 40 posts by midday. No more now. I am lucky if I could do 25 post per day. And as for something like the Presidency. You have to be a very unique person to be able to handle that job at 80.
6 comments:
1. What Carter might not be able to do at 80 may be true for him. However, there is at present no law that says a president can not be over 70.
2. the oldest is Donald Trump, who was 70 years, 220 days old at his inauguration.
3.there has been 7 sitting Supreme Court Justices over 80" and two of them were over 90
Carter is another example of White Privilege.
anon--
and you?
Anon you come up with that question yourself?
If I had white privilege, I would be married to Sarah Silverman or Chelsea Handler.
But I didn't. I got lucky and married a minority. I have had time to study organizations, organizational behavior, and people in general and I simply do not see what libtard see with their 20/800 vision.
If there were secret handshakes and shit, why do GIs marry women of whatever color in whatever nation they are they are stationed in? Certainly, they cannot all be clueless.
WTFU!
Aha! Anon 4:36 PM's 15 minutes of Fame.{Old saying from last century.} He's done now. It's over.
I agree with Carter. I’d set the age limit one day younger than Carter was on Inauguration Day 1977.
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