The Issue of McCain's Age....& Huckabee Singing a New Song...

friends,

last week chuck norris made a comment about john mccain's age. frankly, i thought he made a valid point. despite the media's attempt to make it a divisive issue. chuck norris and john mccain are good friends. the comment was not made to be disparaging, but rather just to share an observation.

the presidency of the united states is a highly stressful grueling job. with mccain at 72 years old, this should be an issue, and at the very least, evaluated.

below are a few excerpts from an article by the national review online discussing this issue:

Don't Avoid Questions Over McCain's Age
National Review Online: Presidency's Mental, Physical Demands May Overwhelm GOP Hopeful

(National Review Online) This column was written by Thomas Sowell

Among the painful signs of our time are the shocked reactions to Chuck Norris’s raising the question of whether Senator John McCain is too old to be president.

Have we reached the point where we have so many politically correct taboos that we can’t even talk sense?

Does a man in his seventies have less energy for either physical or mental tasks than someone younger? Those of us who are in our seventies know darn well that we can’t do everything we used to do, as well as we used to do it.

It is not just in physical tasks that age takes its toll. Even when our minds remain sharp, our energy levels are seldom the same, and that affects how long we can concentrate on a given day without taking a rest.

But a president of the United States has to be ready to take on any crisis that arises anywhere in the world, at any hour of the day or night.

And if he has to deal with it around the clock, then he just stays awake around the clock to deal with it.

It can be a killing job. You need only look at pictures of Abraham Lincoln when he took office and compare them with the pictures of him just a few years later, when he looked like he had aged at least ten years during the Civil War.

Look at pictures of Franklin D. Roosevelt taken in 1940 and compare them with pictures of him taken in 1945, after World War II had taken its toll.

Today we know that FDR’s doctor had put him on a restricted schedule -- and that still was not enough to keep him from dying in office, just a few months after he began his final term as president.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was younger when he died than John McCain is right now. Moreover, FDR had not been abused for years as a prisoner of war. When we are talking about a president of the United States, we are not talking about the fate of one individual, but the fate of a nation and of generations yet unborn.

This is no time to get squeamish or politically correct, when talking about whoever is to carry the load of the free world on his shoulders in the White House.

Quite aside from age, there is all too much evidence already that John McCain is not the kind of man who has given in-depth thought to many of the serious issues on which he shoots from the hip, which some people equate with “straight talk.”

The media have dubbed him a “maverick,” which is another way of spinning the fact that he is headstrong and unreliable.

Senator McCain’s teaming up with Senator Ted Kennedy on immigration, and with equally left-wing Senator Russ Feingold to violate the First Amendment in the name of “campaign-finance reform,” are classic examples of a loose cannon.

Senator McCain is not a bad man. He has some admirable qualities. But there are plenty of good people who would be dangerous in a job for which they are not suited.

Back in the 18th century, Edmund Burke said that some people “may do the worst of things without being the worst of men.” The White House is not the place for that.

entire article found here.



you know....what is amazing to me, is how the gop and the media are so fickle. one minute guliani's their man, then the polls shift. and suddenly, romney's their man. the polls shift again, and after a couple caucuses and primaries, and suddenly mccain is their man.




the gop and the media are so desperate to get behind someone that they can embrace (or in other words, "control") , that they are glossing over and idealizing the candidates. in this case, mccain..(albeit hesitantly) but also romney. (who knows, he may actually win a primary, and then suddenly they'll drop mccain and "romney will be their man." )




with thompson out of the race, the gop is trying to find ways to justify their 'current candidate of the month.'




all the while, the gop are being sure to eliminate and purposefully exclude huckabee from the conversation and from contention. huckabee's biggest opposition is coming from the staunch old-school republicans/rush limbaugh/talk radio/fox etc... that is why, in my opinion, the republican party is lagging, diminishing...losing.




if the republican party wants to preserve itself, it better start singing a new tune. because, frankly, the song obama's singing in the democratic party..is definitely catching on.




mccain's age is an issue. but beyond that, mccain's stand on issues in the past, and his stance on social issues are not in line with christian values voters. so why is mccain leading in the polls? the gop is desperate. if romney wins "anything," you can guarantee they will jump mccain's ship and be sailing with romney.




christians, let us also, not be tossed to and fro by every wind or philosophy......let's commit to the candidate that embodies our beliefs and has the experience and capacity to lead this country up.




let's get behind mike huckabee, and give america a chance to start singing a new song!!







"that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head--Christ.." ephesians 4:14-15