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Today marks one day until John McCain turns 72 years old.

To give you some perspective, John F. Kennedy would have turned 72 in May of 1989.

Think about that. If JFK had lived, and if he had run for president in 1988, he would have been younger than McCain is today.

Americablog pointed out something else. Bill Clinton was president for eight years, he has been an ex-president for eight more, and yet he is still 10 years younger than McCain is right now.

Oh, and additional thoughts on ageism. I don't put ageism in the same category as racism or sexism, as least not when it comes to a very advanced age like John McCain.

You can't be too female to be president.
You can't be too black to be president.
But you can definitely be too old to be president.

It would be unthinkable to elect an 80-year-old man (or woman) as president. Yet McCain has the physical frailty and mental incapacity of an 80-year-old. And he would turn 80 at the end of his second term, if we elected him twice. The guy is just too damn old to be president, I'm sorry.