Youth and Inexperience
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Printed Date: Apr 25 2024 at 5:40pm
Topic: Youth and Inexperience
Posted By: John Beagle
Subject: Youth and Inexperience
Date Posted: Mar 31 2008 at 9:44am
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Remember this Debate with Mondale? ----------------------- REPORTER: (Edited) You already are the oldest President in history, and some of your staff say you were tired after your most recent encounter with Mr. Mondale. I recall, yes, that President Kennedy, who had to go for days on end with very little sleep during the Cuba missile crisis. Is there any doubt in your mind that you would be able to function in such circumstances?  REAGAN: Not at all, Mr. Trewhitt and I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience. If I still have time, I might add, Mr. Trewhitt, I might add that it was Seneca or it was Cicero, I don't know which, that said if it was not for the elders correcting the mistakes of the young, there would be no state.------------------------- If I were McCain, at the first debate with Barrak, I would resurrect Regan's statement, and not change a thing. "I am not going to exploit for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience." ------------- http://www.johnbeagle.com/" rel="nofollow - John Beagle Middletown USA News of, for and by the people of Middletown, Ohio. |