1.0 link 137993 <![CDATA[McCain, Obama, and Some Painful Truths About Aging]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-robert-epstein/mccain-obama-and-some-pai_b_137993.html When U.S. presidential candidate John McCain had a birthday recently, television talk-show host Jay Leno told McCain that he had planned to get him a birthday cake but that the local fire chief had objected, commenting, "That many candles?"

Indeed, 72-year-old McCain is the oldest person in U.S. history to run for the presidency, and his opponent, 46-year-old Barack Obama, once accused McCain of "losing his bearings," a polite way of saying that McCain is becoming senile. McCain, in turn, sometimes...

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