Saturday, July 05, 2008

John McCain: Older than Mount Rushmore


Charlie Chaplin's silent movie, Modern Times, is younger than John McCain. So too is:

  1. Mount Rushmore
  2. The six-pack
  3. MacDonald's
  4. The polio vaccine
  5. Superman
  6. Polyester
  7. The long playing record
  8. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
  9. The American Express Card
  10. The automatic transmission
  11. The Hindenburg Disaster
  12. AARP
  13. Spam (the canned meat)
  14. Helvetica type
  15. Cheerios
  16. Duct tape
  17. The minimum wage
  18. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  19. The shopping cart
  20. The ballpoint pen
  21. Preparation H
  22. The zip code
  23. The 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
  24. Penicillin
  25. The area code
  26. Nylon
  27. FM radio
  28. The Golden Gate Bridge
  29. Kodachrome
  30. The state of Alaska
  31. The state of Hawaii

2 comments:

Krigsrotte said...

Even though the list makes me cackle, I'm not really comfortable with ageism. Mr Obama gets slagged by his opponents for being too young and inexperienced. Is he? Is McCain too old to be useful? Who gets to decide and on what grounds?

Not that I'll have anything to say in the elections, being European.

PBurns said...

Read the post carefully again.

The only one saying John McCain is too old is John McCain.

What's ironic about his commment about how old he will be in in 2008(ready for "the old soldier's home waiting for the calvary charge") is that John McCain voted AGAINST better funding for veterans hospitals and homes. See the New York York Times. "McCain Apoligizes for Walter Reed at >> "http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/mccain-apologizes-for-walter-reed/ and see McCain's vote opposing billions going to veterans hospitals at >> http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00007

As for the list of things older than John McCain, that's just fact. Who knew peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were so YOUNG and VIBRANT? Ditto for Mount Rushmore, the Zip Code, and Penicillin.

John McCain: Wants to fund the war, but not the hospitals. Can't remember the difference between Shia and Sunni muslims. We would support that kind of policy even if he were 100!

Patrick