Basically, while you have to be 35 to run for president (and be a natural-born citizen of the US and be a resident of the US for 14 years), there’s no age cap on running for president. It’s been that way ever since George Washington became president, and changing that would require an amendment to the US Constitution.
you should have to be within 10 years of the median age of the country to run for president, to ensure you are actually in touch with the country you are going to govern, and the people in it, and the problems they have.
The “issue” with that is that, typically, most elected officials work their way up the ladder. Generally speaking, first, they’re mayor of a city, then governor, then they typically run for a federal office, be it president or congressman/ congresswoman. If they run for Congress, there’s a chance they may run for president later down the line.
There are other options to pick from in a climb to the top, so this is just a general idea. Basically, they have to make a name for themselves on the national political stage before they have a chance at winning the presidency. So that’s what they try to do when working their way up the ladder.
Funny, it didnt stop Bill Clinton, or Obama, or Kennedy, from achieving office while being within roughly 10 years of the median age of the country, or having names for themselves.
Both Biden and Trump are borderline senile fossils that shouldn’t be trusted with the Western economy and nearly half of the planet’s nuclear weapons stockpile. Either candidate poses a very legitimate argument for maximum age limits to be imposed on future presidential candidates.
This isn’t out of any dislike towards the elderly. People’s mental facilities tend to decline substantially when they get to that age and that proves detrimental when making economic and political decisions. We saw the same thing with Ronald Reagan in the later years of his tenure.
When it’s a two-horse race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, society loses.
I absolutely think biden’s too old, but in this specific clip it kind of seems like he is making fun of Trump’s “I am the least racist person ever” response.
I’m 100% confident that at the time that’s how this was interpreted. After the guy talked about how he was the least racist person in the room (lol), calling him Abraham Lincoln doesn’t seem like much of a stretch.
By mid 19th Century standards (the Civil Rights movement wouldn’t come until roughly a century later), wasn’t Lincoln progressive? Not only for leading the US through a civil war brewed partially over slavery, but also abolishing it?
Haha I love how I watched this live and knew conservatives wouldn’t have a clue what Biden is saying here.
He’s ripping on trump and it totally flew over your heads.
Conservatives really don’t have the ability to understand sarcasm unless it matches their confirmation biases.
I’ve been waiting years for this to manifest. Thank you for being the idiot who fell on the grenade.
From Joe Biden, the man who said he was going to beat Joe Biden?
I mean, it could definitely be a joke, but I wouldn’t put it past him to do that. He’s definitely senile, the wrong thing about the “speech” in the article is that Trump is in no position to say that when he’s even worse.
It’s already too late since World War II already happened. Donald Trump tried his best but World War II happened. We could keep warning people about Biden but unfortunately he will enter the time machine anyway and tell young aspiring artist Adolf Hitler that his art isn’t that good. He will have tried to tell Adolf in the nicest way possible to ensure that Adolf won’t take this wrong. Perhaps he will have tried to encourage Adolf to keep pursuing art as a hobby and maybe try studying art again later. But the fact that World War II happened shows that nothing that Biden will have tried has worked.
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