The Vigor of Youth

I look around and frown to see eighty-plus-year-old clowns stuttering and stumbling around the corridors of power... From Slow-Joe Biden to Unelectable Mahmoud Abbas* from Black-out Mitch McConnell to Fragile Francis, the Pope They all refuse to step down to give youthful leaders hope... Corporations keep the young blood flowing their ideas and vigor keep the profits growing But the world's nations prize creeping senility over youthful ability _____________________________________ *Mahmoud Abbas, 88 years old, has been the President of the Palestinian National Authority since 2005. Through a series of political mach- inations, no elections have been held for Pres- ident since. He has also been the chairman of the PLO since 2004.