Memento mori, John McCain!
If you think about the former leaders of the Soviet Union, who comes to mind?
Lenin? Stalin? Khrushchev? Brezhnev? Gorbachev?
If you believe that this list is chronologically complete you've forgotten two that are necessary to understand the fall of the Soviet Union:
Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko
That is because Yuri Andropov was just 15 months in power and Chernenko just 13 months. They didn't get killed by anyone or removed by force from their office. They simply died of old age while being in office. This at the beginning of the 80s of the last century augmented the problems the Russian economy was already experiencing and gave in the end way for the reformer Gorbachev to become head of the USSR, with all the consequences to that country that we now find written in the books of history.
The decline of the Soviet Empire isn't understandable without also looking at this era of political turmoil at the top of the Soviet state.
Andropov was 68 when he got into office and Chernenko 72 - Just as John McCain will be of age when he gets into office if he is elected President of the United states.
Just in some fairness: Andropov and Chernenko were already sick when they got into office. But anyone should also know that the workload and the stress that comes with leading a superpower isn't healthy for an old man.
And it gets even worse. Andropov when he was head of the Soviet State knew that he wouldn't lead this country for a long time and built to some point Gorbachev up as his successor. John McCain on the other hand seems to believe that he is immortal and that his health is unshakable. His age wouldn't really be of great matter if he would deal clearly and honestly with it - telling the public what his plans and concepts are for the case that he dies while being in office or gets sick to a point that he can't fulfill his office anymore.
The last thing America would need at the verge of an economic crisis, would be a president in coma who can't continue his office anymore and who didn't care for the legacy of it.
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I'm old enough to remember
I'm old enough to remember Yuri Andropov's Presidency. I remember when he suffered a "bad cold" through much of it. What a "cold" it must have been!
But he had kidney problems and he died of kidney failure.
YA had been head of the KGB, but he was far from the forceful leader that one might expect of someone who had had such a position.
By comparison, Konstantin Chernenko was a nobody, a sort of Leonid Brezhnev II.
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Closer to home, we have had a superannuated President before: Ronald Reagan. And someone once called the last years of his Presidency the "Baker regency", with Chief of Staff James Baker effectively being President.
So would a John McCain Presidency end up being some sort of regency?
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McCain is already in a coma as far as I am concerned. Well, an intellectual coma anyway...
As far as politicians go,
As far as politicians go, Obama was pretty kick ass tonight. What a freaking mess we are in ..... why why why? EAT THE RICH.
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