Looking at the two candidates for President, John McCain Republican 72 years old and Barack Obama Democrat 47 years old, I harken back to the historic election of 1960, John Kennedy 43 years old and Richard Nixon 47 years old. There are millions of voters who have a clear memory of the 1960 Presidential Election. I am aware that the majority of Americans alive this minute were not alive in 1960, however there is much to be learned from that Presidential Election. John Kennedy and Richard Nixon had been friends from the day they both won their first elections in 1946. John Kennedy & Richard Nixon were Congressman at the same time and both were Senators at the same time. They were adversaries yet they had a mutual respect for one another. The then President Dwight Eisenhower was 70 years old when the 1960 election was held. John McCain is now 72 years old and just running for the highest office in the land. In 1960 even I thought of Dwight Eisenhower as "Grandfatherly". At least Eisenhower had a prescience of what a President must do and should not do. John McCain is nowhere close to being in the caliber of Dwight Eisenhower. Barack Obama is the same age in 2008 as Richard Nixon was in 1960. So do not tell me that Barack Obama is too young. John Kennedy, the ultimate winner, was 4 years younger than Richard Nixon when he was sworn in as President in January 1961. I remember the day clearly. A snow storm had descended on Washington D.C. a day earlier and the sky was clear and cold as John Kennedy spoke those famous words, "Ask what you can do for your Country, not what your Country can do for you!" Back to the present 2008. John McCain is too unsteady, too old and too out of touch with the current issues of the day to be the President of the United States. Barack Obama deserves a chance to lead our Nation from the eight years of despair of George W. Bush. Barack Obama would have a clear majority in both House's of Congress. It would be time to hold Barack Obama and all Democrats and in fact "all" Politicians "Accountable". We are in the grip of a major recession and need decisive leadership. The future is the present. the Presidential election of 2008 will have a significant impact on the rest of the 21st Century. Politically, Economically, Militarily and most importantly with the composition of the Supreme Court. The best result is to have Barack Obama and Joe Biden in office rather than a 72 year old man, John McCain, and a totally incompetent Vice President, Sarah Palin, who could not teach "Kindergarten"!
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