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  1. After Hillary loses a few more contests and the FBI closes in she will announce her withdrawal due to health reasons. She’s set the stage with her wearing those prism glasses.

    Biden jumps in. If Biden loses, Obama pardons Hillary on January 19, 2017.

  2. I’m planning on retirement in a year and half; I’ll be 65. If I could have done it 5 years ago I would have. I just don’t understand someone in their mid to late 60’s or even into their 70s wanting to do this. Why not enjoy some downtime; enjoy the grandkids; play some golf or tennis, or relax at the beach? Why put yourself into the stress of the Presidency? The egos of these Baby Boomers is beyond anything I can comprehend.

    As far as health, I’m in great health with just a few minor issues, yet I know that will increase as I edge near 70. Again, the stress of campaigning and the Presidency I would suspect just add to any health problems we all face as we grow older.

    The motivations of these people are well beyond my ken.

  3. There is a general issue of how to handle retirement, or better put, old age, is still unresolved. There is a need for people to be productive and contributing over 65, but not necessarily in the jobs they’ve done all their life.

    As a 59 7/8 year old, I see my colleagues in their 70’s wanting to work at their jobs but often they shouldn’t. Their energy and cognitive skills are not up to full time high intensity work. The constitution wisely made us reserve high office for men of maturity with 20+ years of adult life behind them. But to leave it to the capstone of your life is both egotistical and foolish.

    I believe it was the tenured professorate that started this with their challenges to mandatory retirement ages. We need to restore some balance with older, experienced people not working full time, but gradually moving into less fast paced, different work.

    Unfortunately the self promoting tycoon business line Trump is from is the worst. Look at the disaster at Viacom recently where Summer Redstone in his 90’s with a much younger wife was booted from his CEO position under threat of psychiatric competence tests.

  4. Viacom was running under autopilot.

    No-one wanted to boot out the ‘king’ in as much as the power arrangements had LONG been made.

    Redstone had long ceased to be the CEO of Viacom.

    The same sliding out occurred with Andrew Carnegie.

    While not mentally enfeebled, Carnegie simply lost interest in the steel business.

    Hence, his willingness to be cashed out by J.P. Morgan — to create United States Steel.

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