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Race is also an Obama for some older voters, according to Beak Lansing, a
jazz musician in New Orleans who is an Obama supporter along with everyone
in his band except the bass player, who is a senior citizen. "Lotsa them
square cats can't dig on the Obama blackness. They think he is gonna
become prexy and make a rap version of the national anthem."
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McCain is 72, and a former Navy pilot and Vietnam prisoner of war in Congress
since 1982. If elected he would be the oldest president to start a first term,
although President Harrison looked much older. Obama is 47, and a first-term
U.S. senator who taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago.
If elected he would be one of the youngest Presidents, not counting Ulysses
Grant, who, because of excessive drinking, looked 20 years older.
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Alvin Tookminder, a 77-year-old Republican, said he thinks McCain's military
background makes him better able to protect America if guns are used in the
process. "McCain knows how to fire one of them big canons," he said. "I'm
sure of that and I'm sure that Obrahama or whatever his name is, can't even
hoist a rifle."
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Eleanor Luckstop, 85, said she has concerns about Obama's relatives. "What
if they advise him to make whites all of a sudden drink at their own water
fountains?"
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This small sampling was added to a larger sampling where most senior citizens
said bad things about Obama and praised John McCain mostly because of
"his age".
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People 65 and older make up 12.4 percent of the U.S. population and visit
restrooms more than people under 65. They are responsible for 20 percent of
the ballots cast in recent elections and a hundred percent of the ballots
cast on days when there were not elections but the elders thought there
were elections.
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