John McCain's Age Card

By Barely Political

September 23, 2008

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McCain will be the oldest person to be elected president if he wins in November. And the public may be judging him too harshly when he contradicts himself or forgets how many homes he owns, or so this YouTube video wryly suggests. Solution? An "age card" stating his growing state of confusion and including his date of birth: "way back when."

-Erica Landau

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