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DNC Chair Howard Dean says average Americans are concerned about John McCain’s age. Claming that the Dems never brought the matter up, he says the people in DNC focus-groups none-the-less raised the issue.

History is replete with examples of how age matters.  All of the following came on to the world leadership stage in their 60’s or older, and several stayed into their 80’s.

Ronald Reagan, Winston Churchill, Golda Meir, Charles DeGaulle, Nelson Mandela and Conrad Adenauer come to mind, to name a few.