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Is Barack Obama too young and inexperienced to be elected to the presidency? Probably.

Ronald Reagan turned seventy the second month of his first term as president. He won in a landslide of epic proportions which high-lighted the ineptness of the much younger Jimmy Carter. Reagan was seventy four when he won his second term as president. In Reagan's second debate with Walter Mondale, when there was a question of Reagan's age being a detriment to his re-election, he stated that he did not intend to make a campaign issue out of Mondale's youth and inexperience. That line pretty much guaranteed Regan's re-election. Reagan was seventy eight when he ended his second term, and if it had been possible, he would have easily won a third term. Why should John McCain's age become an issue? Shouldn't we look on his experience as a positive? With age and experience comes the wisdom needed to take on the responsibilities of the presidency.

Joe Biden will be sixty seven this November. Is he too old to serve as vice president? There are many reason's as to why I might find it objectionable for Biden to serve as our vice president, but the issue of his age isn't amongst them.

"If only I had known then what I know now". How many times have you heard that said, or maybe said it yourself, about yourself? It's so true, and that saying helps to illustrate how we all become wiser as we age, and just how important life experience is. As we age, we become smarter, there's no doubt about it. I'll take a gamble on McCain's age any day given the choice which the Democrats offer in Obama as their candidate.

William Henry Harrison was in his seventies when he served as the President of the United States. Benjamin Franklin, and many of our founding Fathers were well into their seventies when they served our country.

Frank Lautenberg, the senior senator of New Jersey, is eighty four, and he is running for re-election. Ted Stevens is the senior senator of Alaska, and he is eighty five. Robert Byrd, senior senator of West Virginia, is ninety one. Should they all be asked to step down?

We baby boomers represent the largest voting block in the country, and we are living and working to a much more advanced age than our parents generation did. I've been a productive member of society, and have been working full time for 36 years, and retirement is not in my plans as of yet, and if Obama is going to use his surrogates to attempt to attack John McCain because he has the nerve to run for the presidency, than he will be offending many voters. If anything, I believe that there should be a minimum age requirement of fifty before anyone can serve as our president, and in my view, Obama has a lot of maturing to do before he will be prepared to lead this nation.

Age is not really the issue here, qualifications for the office are the real issue, and that will be decided by the American people in the voting booth. Make sure your vote gets counted come this November.

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