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Too old?

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GrannyGravy13 Tue 19-Feb-19 18:20:18

At the risk of being ageist, yes I think he is far too old. Whilst experience is of vast importantance, despite the fact that he would be surrounded by advisors the buck would stop with him and his finger would be on "the dreaded button"

varian Tue 19-Feb-19 17:54:34

US Senator Bernie Sanders says he will run again for president in 2020, making a second attempt to win the Democratic Party's nomination. The 77-year-old Vermont senator became a progressive political star in 2016 although he lost his candidacy bid.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46965281

If I had been an American voter in 2016 I would have supported Bernie Sanders, but he will be 79 in 2020, 83 in 2024. I am just a bit younger than Bernie and I have no doubt that from the age of seventy, although I was still working and had quite a lot of energy and enthusiasm for my work, I was beginning to slow down. I was not the President of the USA.

Is he too old or is that just age prejudice?