At ages 81 and 77, do Joe Biden or Donald Trump possess the mental acuity to lead America, indeed the Free World? Proponents and opponents point to candidates’ pronouncements seeming to reflect a grasp of the facts or delusions and lies.
In less than a month I will have ridden Ol’ Earth around Ol’ Sol 87 times. I like to believe my blog demonstrates that octogenarians are not always doddering old fools. Some exhibit the cognitive dexterity to tackle and express reasoned consideration of thorny issues.
For me the larger challenge posed by being President of the United States of America is having the energy, the physical strength, to perform its day-to-day tasks: the meetings, travel, speeches, rallies!
I am awed by Joe’s and Donald’s apparent stamina! Their exertions appear to flow from a gut-level determination which very few of us, certainly I do not, possess.
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