So am I agist when it comes to the thought of a 73 year old man becoming President of the United States? Well... yes. When you get old, your brain simply doesn't work as well as it used to. You can compensate to some extent because, well, you simply know a lot more than some young fart just out of college, but you're not as fast as you used to be, you forget things, you just don't think as clearly sometimes. This is especially true if you're under stress because you're in a stressful job. Like, say, President of the United States.
In other words, there's nothing wrong with discrimination over something that directly affects how a candidate can do their job. So don't think you have to vote for McSame because not to do so would be "age discrimination". There's nothing wrong with discrimination when it's about something that is directly applicable to the job. You might say that I discriminate against technology-hating liberal arts graduates because I don't hire them to be engineers on my engineering teams. Oh those poor English Literature and History grads! I'm so mean to them! But the point is, they can't do the job. That's the bottom line. And John McSame's recent history of verbal gaffes and CRS (Can't Remember Shit) show that he's pretty much gotten to the same point when it comes to Presidentin' that those history grads have gotten to when it comes to writing computer software -- i.e., somewhere between incompetent and no fuckin' way, dude.
So feel free to be agist here. Unlike, say, race or sex, John McCain's age is something that directly affects his capability to do the job. Do we really want a President who says "Congratulations on your election to the presidency of Germany" when he meets the Prime Minister of Russia? Or who thinks that Iran is a Sunni nation? CRS (Can't Remember Shit) is no problem if you're just some retired sod yellin' at the kids to get off your lawn. But when we're talkin' about the Preznit of the United States... dude!
-- Badtux the Discriminatory Penguin
Yeah, but focusing on McSame's age distracts from the rather pertinent fact that he's been batshit insane for far longer than he's been old. :)
ReplyDeleteOle' Johnny Mac is the complete package, a warmongering nutcase and a CRS-sufferin' old fool.
ReplyDelete- Badtux the Electoral Penguin
Hey, check it out! I traveled forward in time and found some footage of McCain celebrating his inauguration.
ReplyDeleteHere's a list of some of McCain's military confusions.
ReplyDeleteHere's a more general list of confusions.
Or you can watch this video of McCain flip flopping on Social Security privatization.
And you can watch this video of him stating that 401(k)'s, the single biggest private retirement savings vehicle in the country, is impacted by the capital gains rate. (It's not. It's taxed as ordinary income.)
The man really can't keep much of anything straight.