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TexasTowelie

(112,056 posts) Wed Sep 18, 2019, 04:27 AM Sep 2019

Jimmy Carter on presidency: 'I hope there is an age limit'

ATLANTA, Ga. — Weeks shy of his 95th birthday, former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday he doesn't believe he could have managed the most powerful office in the world at 80 years old.

Carter, who earlier this year became the longest-lived chief executive in American history, didn't tie his comments to any of his fellow Democrats running for president, but two leading 2020 candidates, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, would turn 80 during their terms if elected.

Biden is 76. Sanders is 78.

"I hope there's an age limit," Carter said with a laugh as he answered audience questions during his annual report at the Carter Center in Atlanta. "If I were just 80 years old, if I was 15 years younger, I don't believe I could undertake the duties I experienced when I was president."

Carter's observation came in response to a jovial inquiry about whether he had considered running in 2020 since he's still constitutionally allowed another term. The 39th president left office in 1981 at the age of 56 after losing his reelection bid to Ronald Reagan, who served two terms and left office as the oldest sitting president in history, at 77.

Read more: http://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/national/story/2019/sep/18/jimmy-carter-presidency-i-hope-there-age-limit/795568/

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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Jimmy Carter on presidency: 'I hope there is an age limit' (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2019 OP

I hope there's a 1-term Trump limit. n/t PoliticAverse Sep 2019 #1

I listened to part of his autobiography again last week in my car Rhiannon12866 Sep 2019 #2

And yet even he says marybourg Sep 2019 #3

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)

1. I hope there's a 1-term Trump limit. n/t

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Sep 18, 2019, 04:29 AM

Sep 2019

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

Rhiannon12866

(205,036 posts)

2. I listened to part of his autobiography again last week in my car

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Sep 18, 2019, 04:49 AM

Sep 2019

And if anyone could handle it at this age, President Carter could. He wrote "A Full Life: Reflections at 90" back in 2015 and though I know he used copious notes that he's taken throughout his life - especially during his White House years - his recollection of details and names is phenomenal. He remembers more about what happened at Camp David with Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat in 1978 than I can remember about what happened last week!

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

marybourg

(12,606 posts)

3. And yet even he says

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 18, 2019, 06:13 AM

Sep 2019

he would not have been able to do the job well at 80. I feel the same way at 77.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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