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Not even a little bit.
Biden's age isn't just a number. The guy really acts very, very old.
Even when he gave the speech in response to the court striking down student loans, when he was all fired up, and announcing some pretty powerful policies... even then he just seemed so sleepy and low energy.
Trump, for all his many, many, many, many disqualifying flaws, still seems feisty and energetic in comparison.
That said, Bernie Sanders is even older, but I'd vote for him even if he were on his deathbed. Bernie Sanders' corpse would do a better job representing the people than would any Republican, and 90 percent of Democrats.
I'm not saying it's not a bad thing, but it crowds out some other bad thing that people would feel about him instead.
Sure Trump seems more energetic, he would win in a how-old-do-they-seem competition, but in a who-should-be-president competition I'd rather have someone slow in his competence vs energetic in his corruption.
Probably the next-worst thing wouldn't be that Biden's corrupt but conceivably it could be worse than just being old.
You want to talk old and electable... Jerry Brown. He's 85, so 5 years older than Biden.
And he kicked Whitmans ass in 2010:
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What I mainly see is that Biden really acts very, very wise. Nobody else could do nearly as good of a job as Biden on a whole range of issues: Covid, Ukraine, jobs, ending inflation without a recession, student debt relief, etc etc etc. I can remember 4 different Democratic presidents and Biden has done the best job of all of them.
I'd love a younger Bernie style guy to run, but he's one of a kind.
Many of the younger progressives don't seem to have the conviction and/or authenticity it seems, though it could also be due to everyone being afraid too to run against an incumbent.
It's really depressing to think there's no good options, and we're just voting for least awful.
He's not, and if you think he is then you haven't been listening to him...
Care to elaborate?
His message for decades has been one person can't save the country, so his goal is motivating the next generation to be active in politics.
Even when running for president he was very open about how his goal wasn't getting elected, it's pulling the entire party left and encouraging progressives to not only run for smaller offices, but to become involved in the system and change it from within.