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Originally Posted by SamSpade  Washington was 57.
Jefferson was also 57.
Lincoln was 52.
Teddy Roosevelt was 42.
That just about wraps it up for Mount Rushmore.
Age to me is no indicator of maturity, but accomplishments and character, are. And these guys had it in spades. |
...crying out loud.
Jindal is 37 now and does the word 'context' count for anything? How about life expectancy, huh? Washington at 57 is not the same as 57 today. How about life experiences? How about commanding in battle? How about the hardships they endured growing up? How about the accomplishments of a Jefferson long before taking office? How about the age a person grew up in?
TR is the only one of the four who even remotely compares to our last couple of presidents; young, ambitious and reckless, and even then, TR's life experiences, from police commissioner to rough rider made for a man far more ready to govern than a part time law professor most noted for his personal appetites and running a bottom tier state nowhere or a 1/2 assed baseball executive that ran one of the smoothest running states in the nation.
Age is a critical factor in maturity. It is no guarantee any more than youth is guarantee of immaturity. But we're not talking guarantee here. We're talking probability.