Letter to the Editor

THE OLD CANDIDATE

You see him nearly every day on TV. He’s OLD. He walks funny, and has trouble with stairs and ramps. He walks bent over much of the time. He does not walk with any vigor of youth; He’s old.

When he speaks, it’s cringe-worthy. One holds one’s breath, waiting for the next too-extended pause, the next wrong name attributed, the next facts scrambled, the next incoherent utterance, the next rambling random “story” about something off-topic. He’s really OLD.