By Howard Kurtz
The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072203201.html?nav=hcmodule
John McCain is old, and we all know that. But lately his little verbal slip-ups, known as "gaffes" have been the lastest media scrunity calling into question whether McCain at 72 is too old to be president.
Kurtz's lead is somewhat humorous as he pokes fun at the media's obession with Obama, "We interupt the nonstop coverage of Barak Obama's overseas trip to bring you some breaking whispers about John McCain."
He presents both the democrat's side ("he's too old") and republican's ("anyone would mess up if they were constantly followed around"). He also touches on the lopsided coverage of the canidates. MSNBC's Dan Abrams notes that Obama seems to be of much more interest to the press than McCain. He also lists some of Obama's "gaffes" too.
He ends with a quote from a political director for the University of Virginia who says that anyone who is on camera all day is bound to make a long list of mistakes.
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