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In reply to the discussion: Keith Ellison and Bernie Sanders: How To Remake the Democratic Party [View all]randome
(34,845 posts)But he has a dynamism and attention to detail that is rarely equaled. If Sanders or Clinton demonstrated that same level of energy, I would have nothing to say about age.
As much as I disdain the whining 'anti-PC' crew from the right, I see this stubborn refusal to take into account age as wrong-headed PC 'orthodoxy'. The odds are vastly against an older individual having Obama's kind of intellectual heft. That's simple observation.
Obama was a winner because even the lackluster Millennials were drawn to him. We need someone of his caliber again and, as I said, the odds are against another septuagenarian being able to fill that void.
My opinion remains, as always, subject to revision.
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