Also younger than Biden or Bernie: *Bill Clinton, who was elected president in 1992, and all 3 of his successors. *Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, & Jim Morrison, all of whom have been dead since before I was born (and I'm 47).https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1106630220155633664 …
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Bernie Sanders is more than 5 years older than Dan Quayle, who was elected Vice President in 1988. Bernie was born the same year as Dick Cheney, who served as Gerald Ford's White House Chief of Staff.
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When Joe Biden entered the U.S. Senate, the President was Richard Nixon, the Vice President was Spiro Agnew, one of Biden's Democratic Senate colleagues was Hubert Humphrey (previously Lyndon Johnson's Vice President), and the Vietnam War was still ongoing.
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Bernie Sanders was born a little over a year after Leon Trotsky was killed.
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The first African-American player in Major League baseball, Moses Fleetwood Walker, played one season, 1884, for Toledo. He was thwarted by his pitcher, Irish-born Tony Mullane, crossing him up constantly. Tony Mullane was still alive when Bernie Sanders & Joe Biden were born.
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Bernie Sanders was born three months after Kaiser Wilhelm II died.
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If you turn 76 this year, you lasted 6 years longer than the soviet union. Congrats.
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Damn, I now feel vindicated for my trials & tribulations. Outlived the Evil Empire!
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Holy smokes. And my parents were younger than 21 when I was born. Mindblowing to think a candidate could have a *grandchild* old enough to run.
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That would make one heck of a club. If they're admitting honorary members, please put me on the mailing list. I at least want the ballcap.
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