Are Biden, Trump too old for the job?

President Joe Biden was cleared last week of any possible prosecution for taking home sensitive government papers and storing them in a dented cardboard box in his Delaware garage.

But the special counsel in the case didn't make it any easier for the 81-year-old president, now seeking election to a second term, when, after a series of interviews that cleared Biden, he called the president a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

Whoa, Biden supporters are saying to the special counsel, appointed during the administration of Donald Trump, Who asked you to be not a lawyer, but a gerontologist?

In any case, the whole fracas raises a fair point: Is Biden too old to be president of the United States?

That's our Question of the Week for readers.

The president, already under assault for his decision to run again for the presidency, the most powerful office in the world, at an advanced age, certainly didn't do himself any favors when he perhaps understandably called a press conference to express outrage at Rober Hur's jabs about his mental faculties.

During the presser, he referred to the president of Egypt, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, as the “president of Mexico” when answering a question about the tragic conflict in Gaza.

Such a mistake on its own is perhaps not a sure sign of cognitive decline. We've all made such verbal slip-ups. Biden's GOP challenger, former President Donald Trump, recently confused his rival Nikki Haley with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

At 77, Trump is as old as Biden was when he took office, so is no spring chicken.

But four years on from that, is Biden simply too old to serve? He's already the oldest president in our nation's history. Medical advances aside, there's no denying that younger brains are more agile than older ones.

If he's too old, why was there no significant challenger among the Democrats for the presidency? Should Biden have from the start declared that he would be a one-term president, opening up the race to younger candidates?

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