John McCain: Older Than Dirt

In all of the excitement/exhaustion of the Democratic primary, the only time John McCain's name seems to come up lately is when he gets asked a question about all of the excitement/exhaustion of the Democratic primary. I admit that I used to have an affinity for McCain (based more on his character than his actual policy stances) but that has slowly disappeared over time as he has predictably sold his integrity to the religious right and various other factions to secure the Republican nomination.

One of the issues he can't seem to get away from in this election cycle is his age; if he does win this election he will be 72 at the time of his inauguration, older than any other U.S. president in history. He has lately taken to making jokes about this supposed handicap, which I guess is better than his campaign's earlier strategy: dusting off his 95 year old mother and wheeling her out in front of the cameras with him, trying to create a sort of "relative youthfulness" as it were.

But no amount of jokes or familial comparisons can change the simple fact that this guy is old; how old, you ask? Here's a few more relative comparisons by the folks at YoungerThanMcCain.com: