Warren Flaunts Her Fitness As Health Issues Loom

[DrFunkenstein]

As hundreds of people gathered for a recent Elizabeth Warren rally in Rock Hill, S.C., the heat built so much that one woman in the crowd passed out before the event started.

The 90-degree day did not appear to slow Warren: She bounded up the steps to the stage and gave a kinetic, full-body wave to the crowd.

Without saying a word, the 70-year-old presidential candidate sent a message: Her physical stamina belies her age.

The age of the leading candidates has become the great, albeit often unspoken, issue of the Democratic presidential campaign. As they prepare for their next debate on Tuesday, Warren’s chief rivals and fellow septuagenarians, Sen. Bernie Sanders, 78, and former Vice President Joe Biden, 76, are both facing questions about whether they are too old to run.

Sen. Warren (D-Mass.) is taking every opportunity to flaunt her fitness.

In the now-famous selfie-photo lines that are the capstone of her campaign rallies, Warren stays on her feet for hours greeting voters individually. Opening her rallies, she typically jogs to the podium. When she raced to the stage at the sweltering Rock Hill rally, she astonished a woman who was decades younger.

Warren never mentions the contrast with her rivals. She doesn’t have to.
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So far, Warren has faced few questions about her age. She may benefit from being a new face on the presidential campaign trail; Biden and Sanders have been in politics for decades and have run for president before.

“She seems a lot younger because she has all these brand new ideas,” said Bryce Smith, the 27-year-old Democratic Party chair in Dallas County, Iowa. Still, he said: “She is older than Hillary Clinton was, than Donald Trump was, than anyone was while running for president.”

For now, Warren’s energetic style of speaking — pacing the stage, flailing her arms, punching the air — helps to give many voters the impression she is younger than she is.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-14/elizabeth-warren-flaunts-fitness-health-democratic-candidates

The piece of "journalism" is full of hits on the health of Biden and Sanders. I'll spare you the details. Instead, I highlighted the ridiculousness of what is ultimately a hit piece on Warren.

Namely, it suggests that Warren is doing her damnedest to show how much healthier she is compared to her main rivals - as if she were doing a spinning class while delivering her speeches. The author brushes aside the fact that Warren has not changed anything since the start of her campaign.

Because that wouldn't be considered "news." But if Warren is giving a "kinetic, full-body wave" to the crowd, surely that is a low blow on her rivals - how can it be construed any of other way?

[MontanaMama]

1. Warren has more energy that I do...

and she’s 15 years older than I am. It’s impressive!

[blm]

2. It's mean-spirited to declare she 'flaunts' her health and agility.

She’s always been this way, and flaunting it isn’t who she is, but, someone wants her agility to be seen as a personal failing on her part.

Why?

[blm]

3. Who wrote this hit piece on the 3 candidates?

[MrModerate]

4. One of the things I look for in any presidential campaign...

Is whether or how much individual candidates grow as they navigate the always-uncharted waters of national candidacy.

My theory is that anyone who can assemble and lead an efficient, data-driven campaign with heart and moxie that can rake in the dough can probably do the same as president (not including the dough-raking).

Warren is showing increasing adeptness at the business of campaigning. She gets better every week, and seldom stumbles. If she's now emphasizing her physical fitness by bounding energetically about the stage, I'm confident she has a plan for that.