Harris is 54 years old; she’ll be 56 in 2020. That seems to me to be around the right age to be running for President of the United States. Assuming the next president is a Democrat who serves for two terms, Harris wouldn’t be able to run until 2028, when she would be 64.
So, I have to disagree - I think now is the best time for Harris to run.
Edited to Add: By the way, here’s a list of our oldest presidents, those who took office over 60, by age:
Donald Trump - 70 years, 220 days
Ronald Reagan - 69 years, 349 days
W. H. Harrison - 68 years, 23 days
James Buchanan - 65 years, 315 days
G. H. W. Bush - 64 years, 222 days
Zachary Taylor - 64 years, 100 days
D. Eisenhower - 62 years, 98 days
Andrew Jackson - 61 years, 354 days
John Adams - 61 years, 125 days
Gerald Ford - 61 years, 26 days
Harry S. Truman - 60 years, 339 days
There’s a significantly strong drop in quality for presidents who take office at the age of 64 or older. Basically, they all sucked - and/or died early in office. Hell, poor old Bill Harrison didn’t even last a month.
So I don’t really care if it’s ageist, I’m reluctant to put anyone over 64 in that office.
It’s really not playing the “race card” (whatever that means) when you point out a phenomenon that has existed against a minority group for hundreds of years. White guys never get told to wait their turn. A prime example of this sits in the WH.
I agree, but Clinton had that pedigree in 2016. Given most of the people the GOP has elected to be president for the past 50 years - Nixon, Reagan, Bush the Younger, Trump - ridiculousness appears to be a trait Republicans favor.
I don’t disagree, but I think she only did among Democrats. I guess what I mean, to be more exact, is someone whose ability to inspire others will readily and obviously exceed his ability to (somehow) inspire a tiny, dumb segment of the population – someone more Obama than Clinton.
What I said was that she played the “race card” card, injecting a racial component into a legitimate discussion of, regardless of his race, whether Obama had enough experience to be president. And I think a white guy with the amount of experience Obama had in 2008 would have been told, implicitly if not explicitly, to wait his turn.
I’ll be doing my homework on everyone in the already-promising Dem field, but she’s my early favorite. Love her.
And btw, @pluckyinky, just a quibble, because I’m touchy about it: Kamala was definitely a powerhouse in CA, but Obama’s IL record was more impressive than even many of his supporters gave him credit for… /nerdout
Thanks for all the replies…good, reasoned arguments. I like Harris myself and would have no problem supporting her, I just don’t want to see her run, get lost or seriously shot down, and not be viable in the future. I think she has a lot to offer wherever she is serving.
Usually for me it’s a matter of picking the least dreadful candidate. This year there is an embarrassment of riches. Deciding is going to be really difficult.
