Maximum Age For The Presidency?

[SevMax2]

I think that this is a reasonable question, at least. What's happened with Biden, comments made by former President Jimmy Carter, when he was 95, that if he were just fifteen years younger, at eighty, he wouldn't be up to the job, some of the moments in the Harris-Trump debate, and what happened with the Bernie Sanders heart attack in 2019....there are very serious questions. Looking back at the increasingly geriatric Presidents and candidates (Reagan, Dole, McCain, Trump, Biden, Sanders), while I'm not one hundred percent sold on an absolute age limit, I think that maybe more voters should weigh this as we consider casting our ballots as a factor. So, class, should we have an absolute hard age limit set by the Constitution itself or just a soft limit set by the voters...or no such restriction at all? (Yes, I get the D/s undertones...I am a switch.) What are your thoughts?

 

[JoePepsiCo]

Apologies.

But bad idea.

Assumes age is fixed.

Assumes health technology is fixed.

Assumes the we will not be kept alive longer in the future.

On the other hand, 0-35 hasn't changed over the centuries when it comes to development.

 

[JoePepsiCo]

There's an amendment for that.

It only requires intestinal fortitude and unity of purpose.

A clear and present danger.

 

[JoePepsiCo]

We have the latter, ergo, we lack the former.

 

[domroger]

Ideally the candidate should be vigorous and experienced,and while age is a factor there should not be limits as aging affects are individual.People's peak performance vary greatly from their 40's to 70's and the rare exception 80's.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Methuselah lived a total of 969 years. Must have been some really, really, really clean living. Talk about 'I've seen it all.'

 

[Politruk]

There should be a mandatory retirement age of 70 for all public officials, including judges and members of Congress.

It is not only a matter of personal ability and vigor. There should be a cutoff on how long a given generation's culture, world-view and way of thinking can shape public affairs in any way more significant than voting.

Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms really should not have been allowed to remain politically relevant as long as they did.

 

[Wifetheif]

Trump -- the OLDEST man to ever run for president claims that it is "insane" to elect old people
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...e-court-old-age-mental-fitness-b2630718.html?

 

[Politruk]

Methuselah lived a total of 969 years. Must have been some really, really, really clean living. Talk about 'I've seen it all.'

Methusaleh lived 900 years
Mehusaleh lived 900 years
But why call that livin'
When no gal will give in
To no man what's 900 years?

-- Porgy & Bess

 

[HisArpy]

Ideally the candidate should be vigorous and experienced,and while age is a factor there should not be limits as aging affects are individual.People's peak performance vary greatly from their 40's to 70's and the rare exception 80's.

Vigorous. Very vigorous...

https://i.redd.it/catherine-zeta-jones-as-elena-in-the-mask-of-zorro-v0-fz3in9av0rlc1.jpg?width=482&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e0d46af9495975099ada1ffbe3e4fda236426267

 

[DeluxAuto]

Bill Clinton is younger than trump and he served 2 terms a million years ago for reference.