Since the presidential thing has been pumping through the news, weather and sports of my ears I thought I would remind my readers (all two of you) about history.
John McCain is 72 years old and I listen to his nay sayers proclaim that he might just fall over dead at anytime and ol Sarah (throw your hat Sarah!!) would be commander in chief.
Maybe we should look a bit at history for a simple lesson.
There have been many leaders of countries as old. We Americans don't have to look any farther than Ben Franklin for an example. I know, that would mean reading and learning and who has time for that?
Mr. Franklin was 70 when he signed the Declaration of Independence.
He then was sent as ambassador to France. It was this “old man ready to fall over dead” that convinced France to sign a Treaty of Alliance with us in 1778. He was the “almost dead” man who secured money from France to finance our war against England. Without this support we would be British citizens even today.
I will also mention that even in his 70s he was quite the favorite of the ladies.
When he came home to America he continued to do work, good stuff to, I'm not talking tending the flower garden.
Then we leap to cancer, Those dem. folks are shouting that he gave short access to his health records and that there must be something to hide.
Heck, Obama hasn’t even released his records. Refuses to do so. Wait!!! He smoked cigarettes!! He refuses to let us see his health records. Maybe then rep. folks have something that needs to be looked into. (we can do this back and forth all day)
Truthfully I don’t blame either one of them for keeping there innards to themselves. I wonder if we would even let George Washington in the White House if he had to go through this same bull run.
I may or may not agree with McCain but I think I will stick to real issues.
Someday you will be 70, I doubt you would want to be dismissed as being useless and even more important, at 70 I doubt you will be useless.
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