Category Archive for 'politics'

Presidents ages when leaving office

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

As obvious as the information below is, I couldn’t seem to find some of it easily online. So if you’re looking for the ages of presidents when they left office, here is a good chart for you. For a discussion about how recent presidents have aged, take a look at this recent blog post.
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The Religious Right is Wrong

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

The 2008 Republican campaign dealt a well-deserved blow to the Religious Right of the Republican party. But didn’t they see it coming? The presumed front-runner throughout all of 2007 was Rudy Giuliani, who was the only vocal pro-choice candidate. After his disastrous wait-for-Florida strategy put him out of the race, we were left with Mormon [...]

Presidents age differently

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

I remember as a kid how people thought Jimmy Carter aged badly during his administration. I don’t know that he aged so bad, as much as his trademark smile was wiped off his face during the Iran Hostage Crisis.
Recent thoughts of that made me want to go back and see how other recent presidents looked [...]