Last night on PBS’s Charlie Rose Ted Sorensen–a speech writer for JFK

said that: ‘JFK faced similar criticisms during his presidential bid, he was only 43 years old at the time, the youngest candidate to run for office at the time. Barack Obama is 45. JFK’s relatively short political career representing the state of Massachusetts as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 and in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until his inauguration in 1961. Barack Obama on the other hand has far more time under his belt than Kennedy did.’ So these questions about whether Obama is experienced enough, old enough, whether the country is “ready” for a black president are baseless.

These are the same types of questions we now scoff at when we think back to Kennedy’s bid for the White House,
“are we ready for a Catholic president?” How asininely impertinent are these types of questions? To assume that a 43 year old man has less wisdom that a 47 year old man is just moronic.

These sort of attention diverting questions waste our precious time, time that could be asking the real questions that face our country, instead candidates find themselves embroiled in tit-for-tat name calling instead of addressing the real questions real Americans want answered. I don’t know if this is a conspiracy on the part of the politicians in order to avoid the tough questions or whether Americans on the whole think this sort of “entertainment” nightly atmosphere reveals the best candidate for the job.

Quite frankly, I have yet to hear any of these “actor” candidates address the core problems facing our country, they rather quip a few quippy remarks to appeal to the mass “informed” idiots out there watching–as if the presidency is akin to a vote for your favorite American Idol contestant.