Comments on: McCain’s Age Redux http://themoderatevoice.com/19984/mccains-age-redux/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Mon, 28 May 2012 18:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/19984/mccains-age-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-137866 DLS Fri, 30 May 2008 00:46:54 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/john-mccain/19984/mccains-age-redux/#comment-137866 The age remark about McCain is not only cheap and stupid but it backfires immediately among knowledgeable people because the person with the age-related liability and associated experience-dearth liability is, of course, Obama.<br><br>Do the Dems (particularly Obama fans) really want to keep wrecking themselves? The age remark about McCain is not only cheap and stupid but it backfires immediately among knowledgeable people because the person with the age-related liability and associated experience-dearth liability is, of course, Obama.

Do the Dems (particularly Obama fans) really want to keep wrecking themselves?

]]> By: runasim http://themoderatevoice.com/19984/mccains-age-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-137865 runasim Thu, 29 May 2008 18:34:12 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/john-mccain/19984/mccains-age-redux/#comment-137865 I've been thinking about how difficult it can be to talk about the obvious.<br>Race, gender and age do matter in calculating a candidate's success, yet to say so outloud is taken as evidence of bias.<br><br>The race card and the gender card can be played to rally support as well as to denigrate. In a subtle way, McCain is using the age card to highlight his age as representative of experience and wisdom in contrast to Obama's youth and indexperience. .<br>Since almost any word in the dictionary can result in a political firestorm, I think the day is approaching when it will be impossible to identify the physical attributes of candidates without controversy at all. I've been thinking about how difficult it can be to talk about the obvious.
Race, gender and age do matter in calculating a candidate's success, yet to say so outloud is taken as evidence of bias.

The race card and the gender card can be played to rally support as well as to denigrate. In a subtle way, McCain is using the age card to highlight his age as representative of experience and wisdom in contrast to Obama's youth and indexperience. .
Since almost any word in the dictionary can result in a political firestorm, I think the day is approaching when it will be impossible to identify the physical attributes of candidates without controversy at all.

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