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Why You Can't Compare Hillary Clinton's Age to Ronald Reagan's
National Journal ^ | 4/24/14 | Stephanie Stamm

Posted on 04/24/2014 11:49:34 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55

The age comparisons between Hillary Clinton and Ronald Reagan seem as natural as they are nonsensical.

Yes, were Clinton to win in 2016, she would take office at age 69—just as Reagan did in 1981. And yes, the comparison is often made when Clinton's critics and allies debate whether she has the health to serve out two presidential terms.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: age; clinton
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To: ConservativeMan55
1. Reagan looked good at 69.

2. Reagan didn't suffer from Alzheimer's until after he left office.

And the most important. 3. Reagan LOVED America!

21 posted on 04/24/2014 12:09:13 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: jimbo123
Hey Jimbo,

for a split second, I thought that was a photo of
Helen Thomas...

22 posted on 04/24/2014 12:09:15 PM PDT by BarbM (Portuguese Dog--Kenyan president)
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To: jimbo123

She’s old AND she’s mean...


23 posted on 04/24/2014 12:09:30 PM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats are waging war on white middle class men...)
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To: GOPJ

She was mean long before she was old.


24 posted on 04/24/2014 12:11:44 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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To: pallis
On 30 Rock, Jack once said:

Lemon, 50 is the new 40 for men
and 50 is ans has always been 60 for women.

So this would make Hitlery 78.

25 posted on 04/24/2014 12:11:56 PM PDT by BarbM (Portuguese Dog--Kenyan president)
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To: ConservativeMan55
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26 posted on 04/24/2014 12:13:02 PM PDT by shortstop (It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful)
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To: ConservativeMan55

At 69 Reagan was still chopping wood when he stayed at his ranch. When’s the last time Hillary did ANYTHING physically strenuous?


27 posted on 04/24/2014 12:14:57 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Her ideas come from 19th Century socialism, making her too old to hold office.


28 posted on 04/24/2014 12:16:28 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Hillary Clinton has a huge and growing weight problem. I suspect...if the Republicans hold the House and take the Senate, she will not run. When a woman reaches almost seventy years old...and is gaining weight very fast......something is not right!!! I have already predicted Ms. Clinton will not run for POTUS In 2016!!! Plus there is much more true dirt coming out about her Benghazi fiasco with braindead, America hater, POTUS Obama!!! Stay tuned!!!


29 posted on 04/24/2014 12:17:36 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!.)
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To: ConservativeMan55
Evil ages faster.
30 posted on 04/24/2014 12:19:41 PM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

Hillary’s Secret Service codename is Flying Buttress.


31 posted on 04/24/2014 12:20:36 PM PDT by elcid1970
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To: heartwood; ConservativeMan55
RE :”. At 85, 1 in 5 women have Alzheimer’s, while only 1 in 11 men do.”

Maybe that's because the men who would get it at those ages died already as men have lower life expectancy than women do.

Unless your point is we'd be better with a male POTUS who died in office than a woman who went nuts.

32 posted on 04/24/2014 12:22:32 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Obama : 'You can keep your doctor if you want. I never tell a lie ')
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To: ConservativeMan55

Reagan DID STUFF.

Granny Hillary has not yet returned all the things that she and Billary stole from us, We The People, when they vacated the White House, including those mysteriously missing computer keyboard letter keys!


33 posted on 04/24/2014 12:22:37 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: jimbo123

The author absolutely misuses these statistics. Life expectancy is valid and useful when talking about entire populations. When talking about an individual, patient history (as you rightly point out) completely overwhelms the value of group statistics.


34 posted on 04/24/2014 12:25:11 PM PDT by DManA
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To: sickoflibs

The country survived Wilson’s stroke, Roosevelt’s moribund last term, and Reagan’s slow decline. But IMO we would be better off with a president’s sudden death than Alzheimer’s.


35 posted on 04/24/2014 12:28:35 PM PDT by heartwood
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To: JimRed

” When’s the last time Hillary did ANYTHING physically strenuous?”

Well, she HAS been known to stretch and twist the truth...


36 posted on 04/24/2014 12:37:25 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Reagan successfully ran CA for more then a decade and made it one of the worldest largest economies.

hillary... well...

I guess sticking with age comparisons is all they have


37 posted on 04/24/2014 12:38:33 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: ConservativeMan55
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38 posted on 04/24/2014 12:41:51 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism)
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To: heartwood
RE :”The country survived Wilson’s stroke, Roosevelt’s moribund last term, and Reagan’s slow decline. But IMO we would be better off with a president’s sudden death than Alzheimer’s.”

Definitely not a pretty picture, but then neither is Hillary.

39 posted on 04/24/2014 12:42:20 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Obama : 'You can keep your doctor if you want. I never tell a lie ')
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To: ConservativeMan55
No mention of her going blind or her brain aneurysms? I wonder why?
40 posted on 04/24/2014 12:44:49 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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