Obama is going to live an extra three years.
Posted on 12/15/2015 6:04:42 AM PST by Olog-hai
Leading a country comes with extraordinary privileges but also, apparently, a price: new research suggests that heads of state age faster than normal and that the stress of the job may shave almost three years off their life expectancy.
Doctors analyzed how long presidents and prime ministers in 17 countries - including Britain, Canada, France, Germany and the U.S. - survived after leaving office, compared to the losing candidates. They also observed the number of years that heads of state lived versus what was expected for someone of the same age and gender.
After considering the fates of 279 heads of state and 261 runner-ups, they concluded former leaders lived for almost three fewer years than expected. The study was published online Monday in the medical journal, The BMJ. ...
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I am tempted to say “Good riddance.” ... but that would be honest. Cruel perhaps, but honest.
Honesty is the best policy.
I know of one that can’t die soon enough.
Why can’t Jimmy Carter fit into that pattern?
How about Israel’s Shimon Peres for that matter?
Carter is how old?
His research on former commanders in chief found they had a longer-than-expected life expectancy, partly because they are part of the top 1 percent of the population that are highly educated, wealthy and have better access to health care than most.
Or Hoover, Ford, Reagan, Bush...
Same reason obama will spend the next 4 decades touring the world dissin' America every day, every way.
Aren’t both Carter & Bush 41 in their 90s?
Really, no recent US presidents fit that pattern. They all hang on and on, presumably basking in their faded glory.
I know of a few that can't die soon enough, more if we include veeps.
And soak the taxpayers while living a royal lifestyle. I'd really like to see legislation limiting benefits to ex-Presidents to five years, tops.
Now that it is well known that LBJ killed JFK in the biggest murder scam in history, it was also part of the demise of LBJ. Lyin Lyndon was said to be racked in guilt and wanted to tell the truth about what was done but psychologists kept him quiet until his death.
May Hoover, LBJ and the rest of the assassination team rot in hell.
Let us hope this current vile snake dies early. I cannot think of anyone I would more wish Cancer upon than this miserable, hate filled fool who has done so much damage to sanity and the world.
Utter crap. Stop spreading idiot rumors. LBJ was a snake, but it was a commie loon that shot Kennedy, who by the way, deserved to be shot for the idiocy and back stabbing he committed while he was President.
Not soon enough, in some cases.
It is a shame that Reagan was taken from us at so young an age.
Obama is going to live an extra three years.
Tell that to Fidel Castro.
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