What America was like the year McCain was born....1936

[Jack from Charlotte]

Lou Gehrig was still an active baseball player

It was only about 9 years since Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic

Commercial TV was still 10 years away.

Horses were still used for transpotation.

Churchill was still nearly 4 years away from being prime minister of The UK.

Jesse Owens wins gold medals in Hitler's Berlin Olympics.

Is was less the 4 years since The Republican president, Herbert Hoover, was defeated due to The Great Depression.

The US Military did not have the US Air Force as a branch.

Buddy Holly was not yet......born.

Coach John Heisman was still alive.

The movie, Gone With the Wind, was still several years away from being made.

There were still thousands of civil war veterans still alive.


Help with these if you can. Please list sites as proof. The site on the civil War vets being alive is here.... http://encarta.msn.com/sidebar_461500346/1938_gettysburg_reunion.html


A Gettysburg reunion with nearly 2,000 guys showing up 2 years after McCain was born. Anyone able to find out how many CW vets were still living when he was born? I'd bet it was about 10,000.

[KSinTX]

1. K & R.

[TCJ70]

2. So what? n/t

[Winterblues]

10. So it means he is quite old and could easily die in office

Most definitely a consideration when voting for the leader of this land..

[TCJ70]

11. That's why we have systems in place for that.

There's any number of things that could kill a president. This is something McCain has no control over.

Maybe I shouldn't vote for Hillary because she's a woman, or Obama because he's african-american...but they can't control those things either.

[Winterblues]

12. Not the same by any stretch of the imagination

But I guess you can pretend...What if a person was one hundred, do you think they are the same as a person thirty five? Also very much a consideration is his bout with cancer... do you think that is the same as being a woman or a black as well?

[TCJ70]

14. I think all those things are out of his control.

That being the case, how can he be judged by them? Unless you can show me how he gave himself cancer...

[Winterblues]

15. It has nothing to do with he has or has not done to himself

It has to do with a conscientious citizen making an informed opinion on who to vote for. Whether he is the most qualified person for the job or not. Age and health are very important issues, where race and sex don't even figure into the equation...It amazes me how some people don't understand what is involved here..

[TCJ70]

16. Well, I guess we disagree then...

...which is fine. I'm just less concerned about that and more concerned about his policy positions. Every voter is different! heh

[TwilightGardener]

3. LOL! Good stuff. He is WAYY too old. That's not ageism, it's just reality.

[izquierdista]

4. There was no minimum wage

The first minimum wage was enacted in 1938. It was $0.25 per hour. http://www.dol.gov/ESA/minwage/chart.htm

It was one year before the first Social Security benefit was paid out. A fellow named Ernest Ackerman got a payment for 17 cents in January 1937. This was a one-time, lump-sum pay-out--which was the only form of benefits paid during the start-up period January 1937 through December 1939. http://www.ssa.gov/history/hfaq.html

The price of an average house was around $5,000. http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/30s-homes.html

[Jack from Charlotte]

5. That's a good one. Minimum wage was 25 cents per hour enacted 2 years....

after McCain was born

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. Speaking of TV John McCain will be on the Daily Show tonight

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/07/will-jon-stewart-ask-john-mccain-some-tough-questions-on-wed/

[Jack from Charlotte]

8. Show the You tubes of about 5 of his comments and then his saying he never said that....

then ask him if he has been tested for Alzheimer's.

[Jack from Charlotte]

7. Here are several more...............

Radio.... That's RADIO.... was used for the 1st time in a US presidential campaign in 1936, the year McCain was born.

The 1st flight of the airship "Hindenburg" took place in 1936, the year McCain was born.

The US population was 127 million.

Boulder Damn began operation in 1936.

Joe DiMaggio was a rookie in 1936.

[zorahopkins]

9. So What?

I am almost as old a McCain.

I will not vote for McCain, but I grow weary of seeing all these posts that suggest that McCain should not be elected because of his age.

These posts suggest that all of us old folks are somehow deficient human beings.

WE ARE NOT!!

There is PLENTY to go after McCain based on his postion on the issues.

We do NOT need to attack him because of his age!!!!!

[KamaAina]

13. We were in the middle of the Great Depression

Plus ca change...