Is it my imagination or has Joe Biden largely escaped the oval office age acceleration machine?

[List left]

It seems like Joe Biden has largely escaped the oval office age acceleration machine.
Watching recent speeches Joe seems sharp and to the point.
Meanwhile, Teflon Don is rapidly loosing his coating.

[Arne]

1. Very clever, and true. nt

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Joe's beating the "age" odds.

While Donnie Dipshit is drowning in his tired and old tactics.

Mental decline is a terrible thing, unless your last name rhymes with DUMP.

[brush]

3. He's way past that graying-aging-in-the office stage. He just focuses on the work and doing a good job...

and benefiting from his many years of experienced gained from many years of experience.

[ITAL]

4. I agree

I don't notice any difference in Biden now versus when he was running four years ago. My wife thinks he's slowed down some though.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Joe understands the way the world works, has self-confidence, and trusts his faith

There is no stress when you have those things in order. There is only doing what is right.

[List left]

8. agree...nt

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

6. There is no such thing as the age acceleration machine

It's always been a myth.

We've tended to have Presidents in an age range 45-70, where they start showing escalation of the aging process faster than younger and older adults. If you do comparisons of age cohorts, say, actors, you will see them show signs of aging at around the same rate.

Here's but one example of two people born only 3 months apart:

George Clooney, DOB 6 May 1961, in 2009



Obama, DOB 4 August 1961, in 2009



George Clooney 2016



Obama 2016



Clooney actually showed more signs of aging than Obama over the same time period, without being POTUS. Are you willing to say that George Clooney had a more stressful job than Obama?

You know that's not true, so why not accept a bit of reality: People in their 40s-60s show a marked acceleration of traditional aging factors like wrinkles and grey hair, because that's when it happens for all of us. Some people do age more quickly than others, but that's almost entirely a matter of genetics rather than the work they do.

Most people's aging actually starts to decelerate when they hit 70s-80s, because most of the damage has been done by then. That's why Biden doesn't look like he's aged all that much. He's at that stage when the aging process isn't as dramatic.

Really.

[List left]

7. You have some valid points but..

Using an actor as an example who likely has life habits that also accelerate aging, does not prove the absence of age acceleration in the oval office.