Is Barack Obama Too Old To Be President?

May 10th, 2008 by Dave

I mean, that’s what they would say about McCain if he claimed to have visited 57 states, right?

Posted in Election 2008-President

32 Responses to “Is Barack Obama Too Old To Be President?”

on 10 May 2008 at 8:31 am1Al Mascitti

If he kept repeating it, I’d wonder.
on 10 May 2008 at 8:43 am2Hube

Well, other sites are having fun with McCain’s gaffes, so why not reciprocate a bit, eh?
on 10 May 2008 at 9:59 am3John Feroce

Better yet, how do you feel if you’re a voter from Alaska or Hawaii after hearing that?

We can play that commercial non-stop in Alaska and Hawaii in Oct, all you need is a 15 sec spot?
on 10 May 2008 at 10:32 am4dano

Wow, no wonder he’s stealing the election. He’s been campaigning in all these other states none of us knew about. Or is it that he’s counting some states twice? Like the people from South Carolina who re-registered in North Carolina. Or the busloads from Chicago that voted in the Iowa caucus. Oh the cesspool of Chicago politics. Do we really want a president that doesn’t know how many states are in the Union?
on 10 May 2008 at 12:48 pm5Al

At this point, he can only count on winning about 52 in November.
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Oops, senior moment: I meant 12, and Hawaii’s probably one of ‘em, whether he visits or not.
on 10 May 2008 at 12:51 pm6kavips

Nice headline.
on 10 May 2008 at 1:01 pm7kavips

Holy Cow! The Republicans have lost it as well. They have 56 states showing up for their convention too. What’s wrong with these people who want to represent us……

(Or is the real problem: morons with the inability to see beyond their own perspective, a keyboard, and too much time on their hands……..)
on 10 May 2008 at 1:32 pm8Dave

No, kavips, they said 56 DELEGATIONS. There’s a difference, and if there’s a moron here, he can be found speaking in the video above.
on 10 May 2008 at 2:07 pm9Al

Tp paraphrase Hillary, “It takes a State.”

(Or the District of Columbia.)
on 10 May 2008 at 2:39 pm10Brian Shields

At least he doesn’t say “nukuler” on a regular basis.

A slip up from the rigors of a never ending campaign I can understand.. it’s better than the stammering, studdering, butchering of the english language going on in the White House now.
on 10 May 2008 at 5:28 pm11Hube

it’s better than the stammering, studdering, butchering of the english language going on in the White House now.

You mean “stuttering” and “English,” right?

And considering, the idiots at DE Liberal ought to LOVE GW. After all, they share one big thing in common: They can’t use our language very well.
on 10 May 2008 at 6:48 pm12finneganswig

cocaine’s a helluva drug.
on 10 May 2008 at 7:31 pm13Tharu1

If this is the best that the gop can do… I might as well book my flight to DC to watch the Obama swearing in as POTUS right now.
on 10 May 2008 at 8:13 pm14Harrison

Vote for McCain-Clinton ticket- sounds crazy but then your at least voting for 2 people that care about this country, 2 patriots who maybe don’t always agree but they can show Obama how Republicans and Democrats actually work together (not by just saying they will). I would put that in office any day over Obama. Check out the negative press on Michelle Obama - crazy lady. “I want to rip his [Bill Clinton] eyes out……. (strange look from an Obama advisor)…. Kidding!” Or the new one today- she will not allow Hillary to be the VP for Obama because she just hates the Clintons that bad. The Clintons might not perfect by any means, but Bill did create 23-24 million jobs, reduced the national debt, our economy was booming, and we weren’t in a neverending war. I would never say I want to rip his eyes out.
on 10 May 2008 at 8:14 pm15Thomas

Maybe Obama is the puppet and Michelle the evil puppet master in that relationship - What will she do in the White House!? AHH!
on 10 May 2008 at 8:18 pm16Al Mascitti

Wow. You’ve attracted a really weird element all of a sudden.
on 10 May 2008 at 8:30 pm17Dave

The post got picked up on Real Clear Politics.
on 10 May 2008 at 9:15 pm18Larry

If McCain want’s to win in November he needs to do what CNBC’s Jim Cramer did - fudge your age by 10 years.
on 10 May 2008 at 11:18 pm19Julie

Hi guys,

I am Ivy league educated PhD and should be in Obama’s corner, but he scares the shit out of me. I have never before been actually worried about the future and safety of the US, but I am with Obama. Is this really possible that he might be a president? I find it so incredible to believe. I also can’t believe all the reports about his supporters stealing votes, double voting, cheating, etc. I might as well move to Europe. This is the end of American democracy. Even Bush/Gore fiasco had some aura of transparency….
on 11 May 2008 at 3:04 am20Mike H in Cali

Maybe Obama seems so out of touch because he came from the future in a time machine. And in that future, there are 60 states — 57 he’s been to, one more to visit, plus AK and HI. The future additional states include Puerto Rico, DC, Guam, American Samoa, Virgin Islands, Canada, and Mexico.
on 11 May 2008 at 3:19 am21Steve in CA

get a frip people… he was being sarcastic… idiots. he was just exaggerating to express how tired he was…
on 11 May 2008 at 3:19 am22Steve in CA

i meant “get a grip” - i am tired too… lol
on 11 May 2008 at 6:27 am23susan

I dont know how they do it , 16 months of intense campaign, little to no sleep with several speeches day in and day out , I am surprise they dont mispeak more. I dont envy them , it seems running for office is more like a punishment than anything else.
on 11 May 2008 at 8:06 am24Al Mascitti

Hey Julie: They must be handing out Ivy League PhDs to all sorts of a-holes these days. You don’t seem to have the emotional wherewithal to graduate high school.
on 11 May 2008 at 11:23 pm25Marty

Steve in CA

get a frip people… he was being sarcastic… idiots. he was just exaggerating to express how tired he was…
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Yeah he was about as sarcastic as you believe Hillary was with the sniper fire. The man is an idiot and we are in serious trouble if he ever gets in the White house.
on 14 May 2008 at 3:18 pm26G Rex

“They must be handing out Ivy League PhDs to all sorts of a-holes these days.”

Al, you mean like Michelle Obama? I don’t have the exact quote, but she said the other day that her test scores weren’t good enough to get into Princeton and her grades at Princeton weren’t good enough to get her into Harvard, but thanks to racial quotas, etc., blah blah blah. The only thing I remember verbatim was her saying, “I’m not supposed to be here.” No kidding.
on 16 May 2008 at 8:07 pm27Rick

The more ‘middle American’ people learn about Hussein Obama, the more they can’t stand him. He is a fraud. Experienced Socialist-Democrats can already see a similarity to ‘72…..a fanatical youth-and-hippy base, and nothing more. Watch and learn.
on 17 May 2008 at 9:01 am28Perry Hood

Fraud? And how is that, Rick? On what evidence?

The fraud is the man who two years ago said we need to deal with Hamas since they were duly elected to power, who now blasts Obama for expressing the same position, with neither admission nor apology.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/15/exclusive-video-mccain-wa_n_102031.html

Your record on political judgment, comment and prediction in recent years has not been very accurate at all!
on 17 May 2008 at 12:30 pm29Brian

Perry you have to understand in order to keep the glorious conservative cultural revolution going, dear sweet leader Kim Jong Bush has passed his annointment salve to Ho Chi McCain.
on 17 May 2008 at 3:57 pm30Don

Ricky, Ricky, Ricky, why should anyone be swayed by your comments when you keep resorting to the old Hussein name thing? I’ll bet you would just love to use the N word. I can tell you got it in for that Barrack Hussein Obama foreign sounding looking black liberal hippie lover. Just think, fifty years ago a guy like that couldn’t even get into a movie theater in Wilmington, now he’s in your face wantin’ to be President of these here United States. Is that how you are going to decide who to vote for? Middle names? Hussein Obama versus Sidney McCain III? Or are you just for the white guy?

If Sidney McCain III, privileged son of Admiral Sidney McCain II and father of privileged son Sidney McCain IV, gets to be President you can bet we will sink deeper into debt and deeper into war. The McCain family tradition is going to school to learn about war, volunteering to go to war, and all things having to do with military and war. Being Commander In Chief would be the ultimate driving machine for a man born and bred to be a warrior. I think Sidney would like another shot at Vietnam. We would still be occupying Vietnam is he had his way. Yessir protecting Old Glory in Southeast Asis from the commie gooks. Like Sidney says, we woulda won over there if it weren’t for the liberal media. And Sid III sees as our duty occupying Iraq and Korea and all sorts of far flung places where criminal elements are making life miserable for the empire of the United States Of America. You can’t talk to these people. They won’t listen. You gotta give ‘em the old one two till they see things our way. Sidney is a military man from a military family and dang, the U.S. of A has the finest military in the world and we don’t surrender to nobody no how no way. It’s what his daddy taught him and his daddy before. We are just about to rid ourselves of one privileged son George Herbert Walker Bush and you want another disconnected rich boy freak in the White House?

You are not afraid of any of the real troubles like debt and war but you get all shook up worrying left wing hippies are going to take over. Whatta ya think . .Obama might mess things up? Obama, a guy who actually made his way up in the real world without the protective cocoon of privilege and wealth? Obama, someone more closely resembling you and your family than McCain or Bush. Is that what you are afraid of? Leadership more from the people than from the elite? We got nowhere to go but up pal, with or without hippies. I wonder what kind of America a guy like you really wants? You sound like somebody who would rather see America crumble into total ruin rather than consider something new.
on 18 May 2008 at 6:02 am31Perry Hood

You pegged it, Don!!!
on 18 May 2008 at 6:03 am32Perry Hood

Brian, the “name” thing goes both ways, doesn’t it?