Happy 72nd birthday! 72! Yikes.
Every now and then I take casual carpool into the city (if you're unfamiliar with casual carpool in the SF Bay Area - you can google it). Mostly the etiquette is to not speak unless the driver does, but today the driver was blaring Stephanie Miller, and it was impossible to keep from chatting about the democratic convention. The other passenger (yes, you need three to be carpool in the Bay Area) shared his thoughts, and had a brilliant idea for an ad, but he said he simply lacked the funds or time to make one. So, I thought, just maybe someone here might like his idea as much as I did and feel inspired to create one...
It is clear how much presidents age over the course of four years, let alone eight years. Even with a president who seems to take excessive golfing vacations, and is seemingly unconcerned about the state of the world, yes, the current one, this aging still takes place. GW has aged tremendously over the last eight years.
So my fellow carpooler had the following suggestion. What if an ad took McCain's current picture, and then digitally aged him, showing him at one year into the presidency, second year, third year, and fourth year? Let's see just how old Americans really want their president to look at the end of his term, and whether they really want him taking that 3am call. Let's face it, if so many Americans still think Obama is a Muslim, even after all the Reverend Wright drama, it stands to reason that they will be affected by superficial factors like 'being too old'. I mean each year in the presidency is like climbing a decimal point in the Richter scale, and I know Obama's campaign won't go there about McCain's age, but someone needs to. He's turning 72, this is a perfect time to advertise his aging a whole year before the election.
The title could even be McCain's own line: I'm as old as dirt.