Feinstein/Biden/McConnell. TT
The question is bubbling in the US: Should there be an age limit?
How long can you stay as a politician? That question is raised by The Hill after 81-year-old Mitch McConnell, the Republican minority leader in the Senate, showed signs of failing health at a press conference.
Tobe Berkovitz, professor of political communication, notes that politicians, like the world's population in general, are getting older, and that some can handle the tasks without difficulty.
- The question is whether it should be up to the voters or the doctors to decide when someone should leave.
In this context, the 90-year-old Democrat Dianne Feinstein is also mentioned, who claimed that she had been in place in the Senate when in fact she had been absent due to shingles.
The Hill, like the Los Angeles Times, also mentions President Biden who turned 80. Recently he referred to the Iraq war when he actually meant the war in Ukraine.
The newspaper's Cameron Joseph writes that neither McConnell, Biden nor the three-year-younger Donald Trump seem to have any plans to retire. If any of them were to end up in a "serious health crisis", it would change the direction of the entire country, he writes.
"Age is not just a number".
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