@JLeslie
All those words and you still missed what I said entirely. I said nothing about 70+ year-olds working, per se (especially those that own their own business). What I said was would you hire one. Few people would for jobs of any importance, and you know it. Hell, people in their 50s often have trouble finding meaningful employment. Because many companies don’t want to invest in an employee who’ll be retirement age within a decade or so.
But that’s getting well beyond the point of my comment anyway.
Yeah, guys like Biden and Sanders may be in good shape now, but at that age especially ones health can very quickly take a very sharp decline. My grandfather was 87 and still taring his roof and riding his bicycle out to his favorite diner by the highway (7 miles, one way, from his house) if the mood took him. He was in great shape, until one day he suddenly wasn’t doing so well. He was dead within a couple of weeks.
Declining physical and mental facilities can, and often do, happen very quickly once you get to that advanced age. Add to that the most stressful job in the world (hell, just look at photos of Obama, see how much the job aged him) and it’s not really a great combo.
Plus I support an age limit on the presidency (and Congress, for that matter) because I believe that those making long-term policy should be those who’ll still be alive to deal with the consequences of that policy. And if there is a minimum age to run for president then there should be a maximum age.