Given that about two dozen of the current candidates for President are in their late 70's, and we have a year and a half before the election, actuarial prudence would dictate we let the Grim Reaper thin the field a little before arguing over who is most electable.
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It's astonishing to me that Brezhnev, the subject of unending jokes about his senility and incapacity to rule, was only 76 when he died. Andropov then died in office at 70, and Chernenko at 74. They would be the feisty Young Turks of U.S. Congressional politics today
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I ask that former Soviet tweeters please post their favorite Brezhnev joke to this thread
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My favorite: Moscow, 1980. The opening ceremony of the olympic games. The stadium is packed. Brezhnev steps to the podium, looks down at the text of his speech, and cries out: O! O! O! O! O! A horrified aide rushes up to him. "Leonid Ilyich! Those are the Olympic rings!"
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