F.Y.I. John McCain is older than the ballpoint pen

[Botany]

From Wiki

John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona and
presumptive Republican Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2008 election.

As the pen moved along the paper, the ball rotated, picking up ink from the ink cartridge and leaving it
on the paper. Bíró filed a British patent on 15 June 1938.

[Drum]

1. I thought he was older than water.

:shrug:

[sakura]

2. But he's the same age as---

[Spazito]

3. LOL, you caught my attention with this....

I can say one thing in McSame's defense, he isn't quite as old as dirt but....close enough.

[PurityOfEssence]

4. Keep it up, silly children: this is going to alienate many people

Think it's fun to mock the old? Think it's cool? It's not. It's mean, ugly and stupid.

Every culture of any note expects its people to respect the old, and this is inculcated into anyone but assholish rebels. The old are also weaker than the young and plagued by more physical ailments, so it's a sick form of bullying, also, so there's no upside to this little ongoing tantrum.

This will lose us votes and gain us nothing, so if a moral appeal falls on deaf ears, perhaps a selfish and utilitarian one will.

Just because someone's old doesn't mean they're out of touch or stodgy. Many who are lucky and skilled enough to survive for awhile have done so on merit, and they're often powerful members of society. They also vote, something youth never seems to do.

This election should be ours in a walk, but it's not, and that's because of cocky and ignorant crap like this. Every cycle, some new and faddish politician suckers a bunch of people into thinking that he/she is "new" and "fresh" and unlike all the boneheaded idiots who've come before. Amusingly, these assumptions are always trumpeted loudest by those who know little or nothing about history; if they did, they'd see the parallels from the past.

There's nothing to be gained by ridiculing McCain for his age except to amuse other like-minded, mean people who have no understanding of human beings and to somehow get approval from these no-accounts.

[Spazito]

5. Respect is earned, regardless of age....

McSame has earned NONE and his age IS an issue. Making fun of McSame's age is NOT making fun of age in itself, imo.

I am no spring chicken and have no problem with the discussion or even (gasp) the "mocking" of age when it is specific to McSame.

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. It isn't his age that is the problem -

it is his inability to gain any wisdom with that age.

The problem with an old fart isn't the 'old', it's the 'fart'.

[salonghorn70]

8. Purity, Well Said

If Democrats make fun of his age, then what would be the difference with Republicans making fun of Obama because he is an African-American? As Democrats, we stand for there being no barriers because of race, creed, sex or age. The only issue should be whether both have the ability to execute the office of President and what they intend to do with that office. From a strategic point of view, it is not in our interest to make fun of his age when older voters already are trending to McCain.

[JuniperLea]

6. My great grandmother died at age 99.75...

And she whooped my hiney at Scrabble two weeks before she passed. Age means nothing. Not a damn thing.

We have far more issues we can take with this man... his age has nothing to do with his stupidity. Some people are stupid, or more correctly, willfully ignorant their entire lives.

He is mentally unfit for the post. That can happen at any age.

[damntexdem]

9. But leaks a bit more.