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Originally Posted by donsabi
If the OP made this remark about a black candidate being black he/she would have been slammed. However making remarks about age goes unnoticed. Let us not overlook the remark about Bernie Sanders appearance looking like he was going to die. People with medical training could not make that call.
This post is shameful and insults all seniors.
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It's a fact that age can affect someone's mental faculties and obviously their expected life span in ways that race does not do. Of course that's on a population basis and may not apply to a given individual. But it's a legitimate line of inquiry - in this case for all 3 remaining candidates given their ages.
Now it may be hyperbole to comment specifically on Bernie Sanders' age or appearance. But given the number of insults about personal appearance that are continually levelled at Hillary Clinton and even Donald Trump in this forum, I don't see where Bernie's entitled to be immune from that.
And of course, it's a fact that on the other end of the spectrum, age discrimination is explicitly written into the Constitution given that a person has to be 35 or older to serve as President. It's kind of interesting that no upper limit was specified at the same time.
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