Joyner, today: [1]
Senator John McCain told off a kid [2] who asked whether he was too old to be president.
An unflinching John McCain was told Tuesday by New Hampshire high school students he might be too old to be president and too conservative to be respected. McCain, the Arizona senator whose presidential bid has stumbled through the summer, countered the Concord High School students with humor.
“Thanks for the question, you little jerk,” McCain joked back to one student who asked the 71-year-old about his age. “You’re drafted.”
Actually, while his delivery on these things is always odd — he loves to call people “jerks” when joshing around — it was clearly lighthearted.
And that question aside, what kind of politics are we dealing with when John McCain of all people, is to be considered “too conservative”? McCain is right; the kid’s a complete jerk. But I’ll bet that McCain wouldn’t agree with my reasoning.