So it seems they’re going to pick the wrong one again.
Hillary Clinton: “Incredible” Elizabeth Warren lost because she’s a woman – Vanity Fair
“I think we made some progress, but there still was a lot of the unconscious bias and the gendered language that has been used around the women candidates,” Clinton said. “I think it affected all of the women that ran.”Elizabeth Warren and her supporters now have tremendous power to shape the rest of the primary – Time
Warren is personally beloved by her team, and as the news sunk in, staffers described a “sense of sadness,” “crying,” and an overwhelming feeling that that the best candidate for President had been let down. One staffer describes it this way: “You’ve got a 78-year old heart attack survivor and a 77-year old who’s clearly sundowning. And hey, you’ve got someone who might be broadly acceptable to both factions, but.. what? She’s a woman? Oops, never mind.”
I was surprised to read, however, that Warren’s in her 70s too. I thought part of her appeal, apart from being the most competent, was that she was of a more normal age for such a job—that is, below retirement age, whatever that is nowadays.
But what is normal? I was curious to find out the ages of other such people. It makes for interesting reading.
- Bernie Sanders is 78
- Joe Biden is 77
- Donald Trump is 73
- Bill Clinton is 73
- Hillary Clinton is 72
- Elizabeth Warren is 70
- Gordon Brown is 69
- Vladimir Putin is 67
- Tony Blair is 66
- Angela Merkel is 65
- Theresa May is 63
- Barack Obama is 58
- Boris Johnson is 55
- Justin Trudeau is 48
- Emmanuel Macron is 42
- Leo Varadkar is 41
- Jacinda Arden is 39
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