It seems that every conversation I have about politics these days begins with someone making the breathless observation that "OMG! Joe Biden is soooo oooooold!"
I get it. The president is old. And he looks his age. Anyone but movie stars who have had extensive plastic surgery look old at 81 and they usually just look weird. He walks stiffly and he's losing his hair — again. (Biden had a receding hairline before he was 30 and famously had hair transplants.) He also stumbles over his words and rambles when he's speaking spontaneously, but as someone who's been watching the guy for decades, I can tell you that he's always done that. Everyone knows now that he's been fighting a stutter all his life but Biden's also one of those garrulous old-style East Coast politicians who tell stories and flit from subject to subject. Still, there's no getting around the fact that he's the oldest president we've ever had and he's running for another term, so people are going to be concerned.
