Did Obama Play the Age Card Against McCain?

Another reason I will never vote for Obama.

His slogan has been past v future all along. since the 2004 DNC speech.
Watching “Senior National Correspondents” that appear to only know the most minimal about what is actually going on, is pretty telling.
Good luck with your smear campaign Mr. Tanner. You represent ABC well.

You’re looking for some ‘hidden agenda’ when it’s right out there. Polls have been showing all along that voters are concerned about McCain’s age, and only young guys (such as yourselves) would assume our concern is only about physical stamina.
As Obama says, McCain is on the wrong side of history. Age brings a lot of insight, and I would always support listening to the elders of ANY group, but at some point it’s time for the leadership to pass down to the next generation.
Leadership is more than just reinterpreting the past. Some things really do change, and we have to change with them or we get left behind. Globalization is just one issue, but it affects (or should affect) our economic policy, health care, education, military, and much more. I’ve seen no evidence McCain understands the interconnections.
Remember the Coburn-Obama Transparency Act creating the database of federal spending? I really doubt McCain would have ever even imagined that.
McCain won’t even bother learning to use a PC – he says he leaves that up to his wife. That doesn’t mean he’s old physically, but that he’s not interested in new things. A PC isn’t some gadget, it’s how we communicate and research now. And he ignores all that? Pretty scary.
I sincerely admire and respect McCain a lot, same as Obama does. I want to see him involved in the next administration. I just don’t want to see him as President.

“I respect John McCain for his half century of service to this country.”
isn’t this a compliment?

NO. MITT ROMNEY AND MIKE HUCKABEE (CHUCK NORRIS) SAID OUT RIGHT THAT “JOHN MCCAIN IS TOO OLD”!!! YOU ALL ARE TRYING TO PICK A FIGHT.

Jack
You sure relish in creating controversy, don’t you?
Age card, race card, gender card, etc.
You mostly stick to less substantive issues. Of course, this does increase your popularity – but what about respect and integrity? Do you care for those?

John McCain has a remarkable record of leadership and experience, Obama zero.

I support Hillary. To be fair, you can also say that HRC is subtly practicing ageism by saying that Obama is too young. I just don’t see it. It’s a legitimate contrast.

Pleeaassseee. I laughed when he said that. I do believe he was subtly pointing out their age contrasts and there is nothing wrong with this. McCains age is an issue on republican voters minds. But, an even bigger issue on democrats minds, especially insiders, is if Obama has what it takes to handle what the Republican’s are going to be throwing at him if he wins the nomination. They want to know if he has the stomach for the politics that he will HAVE to wage to win. Kerry tried to stay on the high road and they swift boated him right out of the white house. They will try to do the same to Obama and he is just showing that he has teeth, which ANY candidate will need to win. And, I might add, he did it with such class!

one more reason obama is the choice of the American people, his age, his experience, his communication and uniting skills and most importantly less polarizing than hillary and mccain!

One thing this election has showed me is that some people have not gratitude for service to country.
Bill cut the deficit – no thanks.
Hillary worked her butt off for years- no thanks.
Mccain served his country and suffered for it also – no thanks.
What has Obama ever done???..nothing..well no thanks to you also Mr. Obama you will not be getting my vote!!!

Obama is right. John McCain, Hillary are past. We need some new thinking and new ideas. Spin it whatever way you want. If you talk about 100 years of war, if you talk about not talking to world leaders with whom we disagree, those are old thinking. Obama will unite. McCain was a fantastic candidate in 2000. Now, he is a leaf from the same tree that gave us this stupid war and deficit.
My first choice is Obama and Hillary is second.

I am laughing at all these replies. If Obama came out and announced he clubbed baby seals over the head, these Obama cultist would put a POSITIVE SPIN on it somehow.

“Hillary worked her butt off for years- no thanks.”
What does that even mean??? Are you referring to her cattle futures debacle, Whitewater or her failure to come up with that wonderful health plan she promised, while Bill was in office.

Let forget about the racism and age. Senator Obama, please show some works you have done for this country before you can convince me voting for you. Talk is always cheap.

That makes the 2 of us here geevill – because i will never vote for Obama.

Getting a bill passed into law that will have an effect on the lives of citizens of this country is a lot different than just sitting there and saying well I supported this issue and that issue. Where is the drive that Obama can show he was instrumental in getting this law or that law, am not seeing this on your list? Maybe he is really a “yes” man, yes we can do this and that but nothing more, because your list sure does not prove that he has accomplished anything that I can see has his stamp on it.

Surprise surprise Obama actually instead of using delagates to attack is said something him self??
Will someone tell Obama that Employment in this country was and is at its highest point in decades!! 95.3 % Employment So where is the middle class hurt, they will be if he is elected because of his tax plans!!

That is very strange. Posts that attack Obama saying he has no record and his followers are a Cult are allowed to stay, but posting a few of the laws he actually authored or co-sponsored was deleted. No wonder people are so uneducated and think he has no substance!

I think it’s a bit of a stretch to argue that Obama was criticizing McCain for his age in complementing him on half century of service. It’s not like he was quoting actuarial tables or the risk of Alzheimer’s were a president to turn 80 in office (as McCain would if he were to win two terms).
Regardless, I’m not sure that the phrase “age card” in analogy to “race card” really makes sense. Surely age is a legitimate issue. If nothing else, don’t you think McCain’s choice of Veep deserves special scrutiny?

I’ll take the snow on Senator McCains’”roof” over the “snow” on the junior Senators’nose any day.To rattle sabers with no experience as in how to wield them once drawn (re:Pakistan),is proof enough that Obama Isn’t Ready For Primetime.

I too heard Obama say the “time of the baby boomer is over” Well, thanks for alienating those who fought so hard so that you might have civil rights, women’s rights and so many other fronts so you could now say that we are a throw away vote for you. You won’t get mine.
And when you lie and say that Senator Clinton does not have 35 years experience but, we are supposed to count all your community organizing you insult anyone who thinks it does count. She started her very first community organizing at the age of 14 when she got a large group of students to offer free baby sitting to inner city immigrant and poor families so they could go to work and not have to worry about child care.
She worked on education initiatives, Head Start, pre school and reading programs while she was in Arkansas, has done pro bono law work for abused children…and on and on and on with similar programs and none of this even counts the White House where she was not the typical bake cookies and hold teas type of first lady, then she became a Senator of New York. I suggest you look up her ENTIRE long, long record of public service to causes.
It is a bit shady of Obama to discount her when he asked her to help him campaign for the senate and at that time seemed to believe her long record was quite impressive to him. He has co opted her entire economic plan so he must think it’s a pretty good one.
I think when you seek to put people who are the back bone of this country and those working with families in the “grave” politically so you can create a division along lines of age it shows what kind of a person you really are.
No Obama, I fell for the speech for a little while and then I thought for myself and looked things up instead of taking your pat answers at face value.
Clinton is not perfect and you are a blank slate without much to criticize because there is nothing there. However, in the short time you’ve been in the public eye you have divided this party along lines of age, race, gender and class. It was a terrible idea for you to run right now. If you had waited the experience question would be a moot point. The smart thing to do would have been go as her vp since she did help you get to the senate in the first place. You didn’t seem to have any problem with her then….if you had gone that we the dems would have a possible shot at 16 years in the White House and have been really united….you’re anything but, uniting. The only reason you now turn on Senator Clinton is for your own purposes. If you had any real problems with her you couldn’t have asked her to campaign for you at all. It’s a sham.
He’s splitting this party apart. So many people are alienated by his tactics and his supporters *some of them* constant attacks on anyone who tries to disagree with them all over the net that they will not vote Obama if he is the nominee. But Obama is all about self or he would not have actively created this situation.
It doesn’t make a bit of sense when he has copied most of her plans and agenda “Hence the nearly identical policies” if he thinks they are good enough to copy, and he has to devalue her experience to the point of lying by omission to make his lack of it seem less important then perhaps we need to start poking holes in his illogical and divisive choices now.
I’m voting for Hillary Clinton. If she can stand up to all this division, the attack media and the rest of this nonsense the republicans will be a piece of cake and unlike her opposition she won’t leave out anyone whether they are a boomer, gen x’er or a babe in the political woods. That’s what it is to unify.
Obama is a master of doing things and then projecting that onto someone else…he cast a lot of blame he should own himself onto Senator Clinton. If he is doing that now he’ll keep right on doing it as president…”It’s not my fault it’s everyone else’s” He is GWB in another mask.
No thanks…it’s all too serious to sit back and not say what he’s really doing.
Rezco, handing out flyers telling people to become a democrat for a day to independents and republicans, the attack ads HE runs but, whines about when she does it….
Actions speak louder than words and so far we haven’t seen Obama walk the walk he loves to yammer on about.
It’s all so fake with him. Don’t vote with “feelings” find out for yourself what is real and for god’s sakes don’t get your political news on t.v. or from either campaign website. Go actually READ their entire record and the statements they have made in official record documents. Voting is a responsibility not to be taken from a t.v. ad or taken lightly.