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September 24, 2008

Septuagenarian Saves Wall Street

Obviously, "the question of age is back on the table," as if said table ever got bussed and wiped down in the first place. Meanwhile, some old coot saves the world:

Warren E. Buffett, the country’s most famous investor and one of the world’s richest men, announced on Tuesday that he would invest $5 billion in Goldman Sachs, the embattled Wall Street titan, in a move that could bolster confidence in the financial markets.

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But Mr. Buffett, 78, has also learned from past mistakes in the financial sector.

McCain is 72.

And also meanwhile, another elderly (yet younger) Senator is one step away from frantically pawing his LifeAlert lanyard because of the menacing squirrels:

I think in the space of about the last 24 hours, Joe Biden claimed that the AIG bailout was bad, but then said it wasn't bad;

that we did not need to burn coal;

that his apology about the dirty McCain ad was, as they say, inoperative;

that FDR once went on television to address the nation after the stock market crash of '29 (that's a twofer that trumps Obama's Americans liberating Auschwitz);

and all but said that McCain took a $50,000 bribe.

Not a bad day's work — encompassing terrible energy policy, flip-flopping, historical ignorance, and slander. And this comes on top of... [ed -- read this rest]

RELATED PHOTOSHOP: Besides claiming that Andrew Jackson twittered his plan to bust up the Bank of the United States, Biden knows a lot about the history of Republican presidents as well.

(h/t: memeorandum)

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