Mccain Age And The Presidency: Term Paper

On the issue of a potential vice president, McCain admitted to the Boston Globe (2008): "The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should... you also look for people who maybe have talents you don't, or experience or knowledge you don't, as well....somebody who's really well grounded in economics....I think I understand the fundamentals, I talk to people all the time on economics...I freely admit I am not an economist." The idea that economics can be separated from politics, or international politics, in today's interconnected economy, where European Community relationships have an impact on what geopolitical conflicts certain nations are more likely to support, where Islam and oil cannot be viewed as existing in separate spheres, shows McCain's outmoded thinking. Furthermore, it is often more difficult for an older individual to adjust to learning new things -- how can the American public feel confident that McCain will have the flexibility to...

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However, even as one septuagenarian politician Rep. Jack Murtha (D-Pa.) commented: "This one guy running is about as old as me...Let me tell you something, it's no old man's job" (Cillizza 2008). Republicans can hardly cry foul when they have besmirched Democratic reputations, from Willie Horton to Swiftboating if the Democrats use McCain's age as an explicit or implicit campaign issue, and focus groups of young people are already being assembled to present Barak Obama, thirty years younger than McCain, as the voice of tomorrow and McCain as an "old war-horse stuck in the past with an old-world view of things" (Cillizza 2008)
Works Cited

Cillizza, Chris. "Democratic Operative Takes on McCain's Age." The Washington Post. Apr 2008. 10 May 2008. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/04/democratic_operative_takes_on.html

Cooper, Michael. "At 70, McCain Takes on Talk of His Age." 25 Aug 2007. The New York Times. 10 May 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/25/us/politics/25mccain.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1

McCain tested on economy." The Boston Globe. 26 Jan 2008. 10 May 2008. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/01/26/mccain_tested_on_economy

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Works Cited

Cillizza, Chris. "Democratic Operative Takes on McCain's Age." The Washington Post. Apr 2008. 10 May 2008. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/04/democratic_operative_takes_on.html

Cooper, Michael. "At 70, McCain Takes on Talk of His Age." 25 Aug 2007. The New York Times. 10 May 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/25/us/politics/25mccain.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1

McCain tested on economy." The Boston Globe. 26 Jan 2008. 10 May 2008. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/01/26/mccain_tested_on_economy


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