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Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
He's human.
Originally posted by scorpiosin
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
He's human.
Do you have proof of this sir? Links??
Originally posted by sageofmonticello
I remember reading that Bill Clinton dyed his hair and wore make-up in order to look as though the job was making him age quickly, other presidents too. I wouldn't be surprised if Obama was doing the same. In politics it is all about perception.
They want the people to think they are sacrificing their health from working late hours, etc... it is just a dog and pony show.edit on 28-12-2012 by sageofmonticello because: (no reason given)
Of the first 35 presidents, 25 of them died prematurely.
I don't mean they died tragically young, like "Oh, it wasn't Pierce's time, he had so much more life in him." I'm saying that there's an average life expectancy for everyone at every time in human history, and that most presidents -- by a crushing majority -- died prematurely. Presidents, on average, come from high socioeconomic backgrounds, and every single one of them has access to the best doctors, facilities and medical treatments money can buy, even after they leave the White House. Presidents, as wealthy men with the best doctors and medicine available, should theoretically live well into the above-average territory of their life expectancy. Yet 70 percent of them fell below average. If a car factory or meat plant or hospital in this country had a similar stat, where 70 percent of the employees weren't reaching their life expectancy, it would be shut down.
It's arguably the most stressful job in the world, of course he's going to age quickly.
The president also made several jokes about his increasingly gray hair, saying in four years he'll look like Morgan Freeman. "That's not even funny," Obama said, laughing.
The presidency, a job described by the men who have held it as "demanding and unrelenting" (12- to 18-hour days are not just expected but almost entirely unavoidable) and "overwhelmingly lonely," is a killing job, and we made it that way by giving our presidents the amount of power and responsibility and blame that we give them.