Off Topic Chat. (MOD NOTE post# 3949 and post#5279)

Grizzly 45

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122420922#Comment_122420922

Realistically, you'd have to be stark raving mad IMHO to want this job. You, your entire family and past, present and future become public property for everyone to poke and prod and wipe their noses on and pry open the family closest with the skeletons in them.Every utterance you make will be jumped on by whatever offended lobby has an axe to grind with your policies as a sign of your bias against them. Privacy and family life, out the door…From the moment you declare you are running and are endorsed, there will be an army of crop-headed, unsmiling armed and suited men and women on you and your immediate fam 24/7/365,who WILL have a say on where, when and how you will go about your life

The pay is utterly appaling too for the responsibility of running the world's only hyperpower and having the responsibility too if it ever comes to it of launching Armageddon on humanity. 400k per annum and 230 K PA pension. That chump change to some people who work Wall St or are high-powered lawyers, some who would make excellent presidents, but have more sense not to be such.

Politics aside, things start to go downhill once you are past 80

The average age of the 118th [current]US Congress is 58 and senators is 64 years respectively.

33% of the Senate is past normal retirement age for the rest of the US workforce[about 66] between 60 and 69,30% are between 70-79 and 5% are over 80!

The "elder Statesman" in all honour, but seriously I can see why age term limits in Congress and the Senate are becoming a discussion thing in the US these days.