Era of the Septuagenarians
It seems that this is the age of the 70-year olds, though on a smallish scale, and even then for most of them this period of glory can't last long.
If I am not mistaken I saw a headline suggesting that people of that age had done well during the recent Oscar awards ceremony, in which one of the most toasted films was titled, ironically, "No Country for Old Men."
Meanwhile John McCain, at 71, is currently the candidate for President that most Republicans are banking on to extend the string of their nefarious successes in recent decades. And at 74 Ralph Nader is supposedly running for the same office. And over in Cuba 76-year-old Raul Castro has picked up the reins of leadership. Then there's the writer, who still manages to detect sunlight returning every morning.
The Cuban exiles were bitter at seeing Raul Castro and the men of his generation taking over from his ailing brother. They said they had hoped for a younger group of leaders, who would set into motion the reforms that would be needed to make more rational and comfortable the return of the exiles. In other words they saw Raul Castro as being too old for the job. Yet you know that they are happy to completely overlook the fact that McCain is just a few years younger, and that very likely he is prone to letting his mouth get ahead of his brain much more than Raul Castro. After all, the latter already has almost half a century of experience at being his country's defacto co-leader, with all the struggling to overcome countless difficulties that that has entailed, while much of McCain's experience has involved backtracking and sweeping away the traces of his numerous missteps.
But Raul Castro may have his work cut out for him, in lasting much longer than his ailing brother. And meanwhile, if the U.S. has any kind of luck left, McCain will not become the next President, while millions would love to hear not even another whisper from Ralph Nader.
As for the writer, better luck should be in store, because Spring and warm days will soon be here. That has to be certain, since the astronomers have not yet detected anything of a rocky nature that is on its way to knocking Planet Earth out of its orbit.
If I am not mistaken I saw a headline suggesting that people of that age had done well during the recent Oscar awards ceremony, in which one of the most toasted films was titled, ironically, "No Country for Old Men."
Meanwhile John McCain, at 71, is currently the candidate for President that most Republicans are banking on to extend the string of their nefarious successes in recent decades. And at 74 Ralph Nader is supposedly running for the same office. And over in Cuba 76-year-old Raul Castro has picked up the reins of leadership. Then there's the writer, who still manages to detect sunlight returning every morning.
The Cuban exiles were bitter at seeing Raul Castro and the men of his generation taking over from his ailing brother. They said they had hoped for a younger group of leaders, who would set into motion the reforms that would be needed to make more rational and comfortable the return of the exiles. In other words they saw Raul Castro as being too old for the job. Yet you know that they are happy to completely overlook the fact that McCain is just a few years younger, and that very likely he is prone to letting his mouth get ahead of his brain much more than Raul Castro. After all, the latter already has almost half a century of experience at being his country's defacto co-leader, with all the struggling to overcome countless difficulties that that has entailed, while much of McCain's experience has involved backtracking and sweeping away the traces of his numerous missteps.
But Raul Castro may have his work cut out for him, in lasting much longer than his ailing brother. And meanwhile, if the U.S. has any kind of luck left, McCain will not become the next President, while millions would love to hear not even another whisper from Ralph Nader.
As for the writer, better luck should be in store, because Spring and warm days will soon be here. That has to be certain, since the astronomers have not yet detected anything of a rocky nature that is on its way to knocking Planet Earth out of its orbit.
posted by Carl (aka Sofarsogoo) | 7:59 AM
2 Comments:
I can not imagine 4 more years under the Republican war machine, so I hope you are right on that. However, I do feel for Cuba, I was hoping that there would be someone who was NOT a Castro. Maybe I was hoping for too much.
I blame the travails suffered by the Cubans on the island more on their vindictive, short-sighted cousins in Miami than I do on the Castros. But we can have our little differences. You, after all, lean, while I know I could be accused of doing a bit more. :)
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