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Barack Obama may well turn out to be our first Black president. BO is many things; however, why does your headline writer insist upon calling him "young"? If he takes office at age 48, he will be just three years short of 51, which was my age when I had a heart attack. If he's "young," what do you call someone who's 18, 28, 38? Barack Obama is middle-aged; there is no getting around this. According to Webster's, mid-age starts at 45. And it's nothing to be ashamed about. So much has been made of Obama's inexperience, at a relatively "ripe" age, that you'd think his supporters would prefer to downplay the age factor. Not that youth is always a bad thing. There have been younger presidents in my own lifetime: John Kennedy, Bill Clinton. These "young" men were at least as competent as their eleders: Nixon, Reagan, Bush, etc. In your enthusiasm to hand Obama the keys to the White House, you don't seem to realize that the lily does not need gilding. Obama's accomplishments have already put him in the history books. Why are you trying to put him in a nursery?
