Former President Jimmy Carter. Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
Daily Mail: Jimmy Carter, 94, says there should be an age limit on the presidency and hints to Democratic 2020 contenders that he couldn't have handled the office at 80
* Former President Jimmy Carter said he doesn't believe he could have managed the most powerful office in the world as an 80-year-old
* Carter didn't tie his answer to any of his fellow Democrats running for president
* The 39th US president was 56 when he left office in 1981
* Two leading 2020 candidates, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, would turn 80 during their terms if elected - Biden is 76, while Sanders is 78
Weeks shy of his 95th birthday, former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday he doesn't believe he could have managed the most powerful office in the world at 80 years old.
Carter, who earlier this year became the longest-lived chief executive in American history, didn't tie his comments to any of his fellow Democrats running for president, but two leading 2020 candidates, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, would turn 80 during their terms if elected.
Biden is 76. Sanders is 78.
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WNU Editor: He has a point. I am 59, and there are things that I just do not have the energy to do anymore. Case in point is this blog. In the past I could easily do 30 to 40 posts by midday. No more now. I am lucky if I could do 25 post per day. And as for something like the Presidency. You have to be a very unique person to be able to handle that job at 80.