Is John McCain too old to be president? In a country that most companies make anybody over 65 years old retire here is a guy who is 71 and running for the most difficult job in the world. Can he handle it? As I watch his gaffes, his misstatements, his lack of knowledge of simple but very serious worldwide matters like what is the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite and what countries actually border Iraq, or speaking about Czechoslovakia like it still exists or stating that Putin is the president of Germany or that he was proud be the Republican nominee for the United States of Arizona, I grow nervous. These gaffes are quite scary but let’s face it everyone makes mistakes, but Senator McCain’s are seemingly getting more and more frequent. Some of his handlers write it off as the stress of a long arduous campaign but isn’t being the president of the United States long, arduous and stressful. When asked about his age McCain usually jokes about it or directs the questioner to talk to his mother who is now 95, what he doesn’t say is that his father died at 71 and his grandfather at 60. And a worrisome footnote to this is that recent research at Duke University reports that 1 in every 3 Americans over 70 suffer some memory loss.

Another problem associated with his old age is his lack of knowledge of computers or the Internet. It is widely speculated that he has never gone on line, when asked about that, he answered, “My people go on line for me” and when his deputy campaign director Mark Soohoo was asked about McCain’s computer knowledge he answered, “You don’t necessarily have to use a computer to understand how it shapes the country.” You have to shake your head at verbiage like that. I just can’t imagine a president not having a little knowledge about a medium that is changing the world daily. I have nothing against senior citizens, I think they are invaluable, I just don’t know if America is ready for a grandfather president who is set in the past and would add nothing new in this modern age not to mention to stay engaged in a very fluid worldwide modern society...