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Is Barack Obama too young to be president?
eyesonobama.com — Today's Chicago Tribune has an op-ed column by Seven Calabresi, who is a professor @ Northwestern University's Law School, a founding member of the Federalist Society, and a veteran of the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations. He asserts that Sen.Obama is too young to be president. I thought his column was so asinine that it called for a response.
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- cowguin, on 07/22/2008, -11/+1yes
- m4532v, on 07/22/2008, -1/+9I don't see why age has anything to do with it for the simple question of "what has age gotten us lately"?
- sphira, on 07/23/2008, -1/+4The wisdom of the Aged -
- ohnoerino, on 07/22/2008, -1/+5Here's the original piece....
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-ope ... - motivatedmama, on 07/22/2008, -1/+12Too Young=Too Black. Just one more excuse among many.
If you're not just a bigot here's a serious argument:
Character trumps experience. Character defines all your actions, actions dictate experiences and what we take away from them.
In Obama's case we have character, empathy and intelligence, an eminently winning combination.
Then there's the generation we are living in. The old ways have failed. It's time for a new, perspective for a new world. It's our turn.
A more elaborate take with examples, stated more eloquently than I ever could:
http://women.barackobama.com/page/community/post/w ...- grenz, on 07/23/2008, -1/+1Though the argument he proposes is ignorant, your automatic association to racism is beyond ignorant.
Though I'm sure you vigorously support Obama, have you ever thought that a someones opinion might hinge on something OTHER than race? I know it's hard to process, but it just might be the case.
Assuming that support of a candidate other than Obama is Racism is a great myopic view of peoples view.- motivatedmama, on 07/23/2008, -1/+1I don't see this article advocating another candidate. I see an unwarranted and biased attack. I am referring to this particular opinion and those who share it.
My issue is with what I consider to be myriad senseless objections to his presidency and this issue is just one of them. The less veracity the "issue" has and the more stubbornly it's held on to lead me to think it's just latent racism. You just would not believe the accusations and assumptions I've heard hurled about with no basis in fact and these are always coupled with an irrational unwillingness to even listen to the facts. Here in Ky. "Obama's a Muslim, a terrorist, racist, the anti-christ, refuses to say the pledge, inexperienced, too young, would shut down the unions (!?), doesn't wear a flag pin" etc. etc. all smack of !BS! to the nth degree since are easily debunked! Why would someone hold onto to these lies when the facts are right there? This is nothing more than willful ignorance. What I question is what that kind of will stems from.
Here in Ky. in the Democratic Party itself, we have an unwillingness to support Obama! Even among executive committee members when they are REQUIRED to support all the Dem.candidates. The usual excuse? They were Hillary supporters and they are still grieving. Piffle! How does that make sense?
Take the "grieving" analogy. If you had a family and there was an immediate tragedy where you knew you had lost one member but could save the rest, don't you think you would postpone your grieving long enough to do so?
Well HIllary is the loss, and the Democratic Party the family.
There are viable reasons not to support him, and I do know what those are. This petty invention of excuses is naive at the least and racist and cowardly at worst. That's how I see it and I won't sit idly by and listen to it.
- motivatedmama, on 07/23/2008, -1/+1I don't see this article advocating another candidate. I see an unwarranted and biased attack. I am referring to this particular opinion and those who share it.
- grenz, on 07/23/2008, -1/+1Though the argument he proposes is ignorant, your automatic association to racism is beyond ignorant.
- JoanDark, on 07/22/2008, -0/+11This Steven must be a really old guy.Who else would see 47 as YOUNG?
Not that Barack is old, but old people think everyone under 65 is a baby!
Forget him!We need a smart, younger person.
McCain is too old, and bush wasnt SMART.
(BTW how old was bush when elected?Didnt steven think HE was too YOUNG?) - Evilena, on 07/22/2008, -1/+14The constitution says he is old enough.
Watch out for people that call people in their 30's and 40's kids and act like their age makes them so much wiser.
A better name for the Baby Boomers is Generation W- livefree12, on 07/23/2008, -0/+4I agree, min. age is 45. This journalist is just trying to find excuses!!
- livefree12, on 07/23/2008, -0/+9Sorry, I just checked, it's 35!
- livefree12, on 07/23/2008, -0/+4I agree, min. age is 45. This journalist is just trying to find excuses!!
- MarkEarhart, on 07/23/2008, -3/+7Age has nothing to do with it. It is his political record, waffling, kissing up to AIPAC, and his CFR involvement that disqualifies him as being Presidential material to me.
- greenroom628, on 07/23/2008, -1/+10i call *****. obama would be 47, mccain would be 72 at inauguration. if obama is too young, mccain would be too old.
ages of the last few presidents at the time of their inauguration:
bush2 - 54
clinton - 46
bush1 - 64
reagan - 69
carter - 52
ford - 61
nixon - 56
johnson - 55
kennedy - 43
and a republican, teddy rooselvelt, was the youngest at 42. - DuggDowner, on 07/23/2008, -1/+3I went to Northwestern and Steven Calabresi is to young to be tenured.
- MommaLu, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1He's not too young, he's too secret Muslim.
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