The Man Who Would Be King

So I’ve had this queued up for a little while now and made the mistake of mentioning it to a buddy of mine this weekend. If anyone else would have asked I’d have told them to get bent but this happens to be a really good friend so here you have it folks…

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING

A lot has been said about the level of “experience” each candidate is bringing to the election. It is said that Barack is too green and doesn’t have what it takes to make the tough decisions. That this can only come with experience. There isn’t much mention on how all the experience managed to get us into the mess we’re currently in but oh well.

I’m not trying to be mean when I say this but the truth of the matter is that JOHN MCCAIN IS OLD! That’s the truth of it. You can sugar coat it anyway you want but the man was born on August 29, 1936. As has been widely mentioned, if elected (at the age of 72) he will be the oldest person ever to be inaugurated as President of the United States.

72!

72 fucking years old. I’ll be 38 this year and I don’t believe that Mr. McCain can really relate to the issues I deal with every day. He’s too old to. He can remember what it was like when he was my age, sure. But the world was a much different place then. When McCain was 38 I was 4 years old!

72 years old people.

Here now is a list of things that John McCain is older than.

• The photocopier (invented in 1937)
• The ball point pen (1938)
• Freeze-dried coffee (Nescafe) (1938)
• The Electron microscope (1939)
• Aerosol spray cans (1941)
• Polyester (1942)
• Synthetic rubber (1943)
• Slinky (1943)
• Silly Putty (1943)
• The Aqualung (1943)
• Kidney dialysis machine (1944)
• The Atomic Bomb (1945)
• Microwave oven (1946)
• Mobile phones (1947)
• Transistor (1947)
• The Tupperware seal (1947)
• The Frisbee (1948)
• Velcro (1948)
• Cake mix (1949)
• Credit cards (1950)

The list goes on. These are just a list of inventions. You could add a couple of other notable things such as:
• The Golden gate bridge
• “Under God” in the pledge of allegiance
• NATO
• The United Nations
• The first Disney Movie
• The Wizard of Oz
• The Pentagon
• The CIA

Look I could do this forever but don’t you people have someplace to be or something you ought to be pretending to do?

By the way…John McCain is also older than this guy