"traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn" (el-peasant)
11/22/2015 at 07:11 • Filed to: None
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"traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn" (el-peasant)
11/22/2015 at 07:11 • Filed to: None | 3
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Whether or not presidents age quicker than normal while in office.
One one hand, these in particular have the fate of at least 230,000,000 people in their hands, the strong opposition of another entire political party, an assassination attempt is plotted aganst them who knows when, some of their actions and views may be polarizing. Stress = gray hair and wrinkles?
On the other hand, it’s just the normal physical differences of 8 years.
Berang
> traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn
11/22/2015 at 07:21 |
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Warren G. Harding didn’t age at all.
Kat Callahan
> traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn
11/22/2015 at 07:26 |
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Herbert Walker was only president for four. I remember Reagan, but I was so young all the olds were the olds, telling the olds apart was beyond my toddler ability.
I think versus the others, Obama went grey really, really quickly. He went grey in his first term. I think that’s good evidence. Here’s 2008 vs 2012:
Bill didn’t so much age as he started looking ruddy and obese, the stress made him fat. He’s clearly way older than when he left office 15 years ago, but he looks so much healthier now. I remember him in 1992, first pic. Look at him in 1999, and look at him now:
Wobbles the Mind
> traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn
11/22/2015 at 07:26 |
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I would check the vice presidents. If they aged the same, then time is in play over stress. We all know vice president of the US is the most cush job on the planet.
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Kat Callahan
> Wobbles the Mind
11/22/2015 at 07:34 |
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Until Cheney. Cheney changed the role of the VP into a “second-in-command” position, an active part of the cabinet.
In many cases, including Herbert Walker’s, LBJ’s, etc, the vice president is chosen as a unity decision to placate the losing party faction. Often the president hoped the vice president would stay out of the way, and the office was designed originally to be “not worth a warm bucket of spit.”
Cheney changed all that, and when Obama asked Uncle Joe, and they’ve publicly spoken about this, Biden said only if the vice presidency kept its power. And Biden has followed Cheney in helping to create a “new normal” for a powerful vice presidency which serves as executive officer, security and political advisor, attack dog, and media bite sounder-outer as well as the president’s understudy.
We’ll see if the trend continues under the next president, and I think it probably will be. Because a Cheney or a Biden, or a VP in that same mould, is better likely to be able to be ready on day one to continue an effective administration than a rival-made-placeholder.
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Berang
> Wobbles the Mind
11/22/2015 at 07:42 |
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William Henry Harrison Vs John Tyler.
GhostZ
> traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn
11/22/2015 at 07:42 |
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Depends on what you mean by “aging”. Adrenaline and physical stress definitely can accelerate inflammatory responses and cell replication, which is what’s going to lead to things like wrinkles and grey hair.
PS9
> traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn
11/22/2015 at 07:52 |
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I don’t know about that. I do know one thing though; if this guy becomes president, I’ll age about 99 years in one day.
ranwhenparked
> traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn
11/22/2015 at 09:15 |
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I think a lot of it is just that their lives are so heavily chronicled by the media for 4-8 years straight that you’re able to notice details like that. The human face changes considerably over 8 years, but its so gradual that we don’t notice it in the mirror everyday, and most of us aren’t getting our pictures taken on a daily basis.
That said, the stress does take some toll, they probably do leave office looking a bit worse than they would have otherwise. Except Reagan, that looks like just normal aging. He was a master delegator and got a lot of personal enjoyment out of being president, which meant comparatively low stress - it all got shifted to his subordinates.
ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable)
> traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn
11/22/2015 at 09:55 |
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http://www.cracked.com/blog/3-reasons…
Birddog
> Berang
11/22/2015 at 11:17 |
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Didn’t he die of a brain aneurysm?
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Berang
> Birddog
11/22/2015 at 11:19 |
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WEll, sometimes being president will do that to you.
nerd_racing
> Berang
11/25/2015 at 13:52 |
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Alexander Hamilton vs. Aaron Burr?