Posted on Oct 14, 2015
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Six World War II veterans served as president of the United States, and that war only lasted five years. Why has no Vietnam veteran ever been elected president when that war lasted nine years?
WWII World War Two
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Office of the President (POTUS)
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Age.
If you look at the Presidents and the Age requirement (35) to be President, it creates a weird sort of issue.
The average age of the Presidents at accession has been 55~. That means that we need a College Grad (22) with about 28-32 years after Vietnam (1955-1976 at the extreme limits) which would make their election year somewhere between 1983 & 2008.
If you look at those election cycles, we had Reagan (WWII) second term, Bush (WWII), Clinton (Vietnam Era, not Vet)x2, GWBush (Vietnam Era)x2.
The following election cycles result in aging veteran population and are creating a "gap." The current President is too young to have served in that conflict, and the most of the others in his "peer group" would be Cold War to Gulf War era vets.
The best way to describe this would be saying that WWII vets occupied the office too long, and knocked out potential Korea & Vietnam vets.
If you look at the Presidents and the Age requirement (35) to be President, it creates a weird sort of issue.
The average age of the Presidents at accession has been 55~. That means that we need a College Grad (22) with about 28-32 years after Vietnam (1955-1976 at the extreme limits) which would make their election year somewhere between 1983 & 2008.
If you look at those election cycles, we had Reagan (WWII) second term, Bush (WWII), Clinton (Vietnam Era, not Vet)x2, GWBush (Vietnam Era)x2.
The following election cycles result in aging veteran population and are creating a "gap." The current President is too young to have served in that conflict, and the most of the others in his "peer group" would be Cold War to Gulf War era vets.
The best way to describe this would be saying that WWII vets occupied the office too long, and knocked out potential Korea & Vietnam vets.
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The only ones to run were McCain who ran a bad campaign and Kerry, whom the GOP destroyed, unless my memory is flawed...
BTW, interestingly, when Kerry was running, I saw a Kerry/Edwards button written in Hebrew. In Hebrew the word קרי K-R-Y means one who has a genital emission... a lot of rabbis laugh about that...
BTW, interestingly, when Kerry was running, I saw a Kerry/Edwards button written in Hebrew. In Hebrew the word קרי K-R-Y means one who has a genital emission... a lot of rabbis laugh about that...
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LCDR Rabbi Jaron Matlow, good one about Kerry, sir. Tell me God doesn't have a sense of humor.
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