What's Wrong With Old, White-Haired Dudes?

Weekly commentary by CBS Evening News chief Washington correspondent and Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer.

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We all had our fun at Paris Hilton's expense but I laughed out loud when she did that spoof commercial pushing back at John McCain.

My guess is that John McCain laughed too. But politics aside, I am compelled to stand up for "old white haired dudes" and point out we actually have several advantages over others.

For example, if forced, we can drink coffee straight from a mug. We don't need to sip it through a little hole in a plastic top in a cardboard container to make it taste good.

Since we grew up when telephones had cords and telephone booths had doors, we know how to keep phone conversations private.

We were lucky enough to grow up when it was safe for kids to walk to school and we learned the lessons that came from having to organize our own after school games. It was pretty nice actually, not having to suffer adults trying to relive their own childhood sports fantasies.

We can even remember when you didn't have to drink water from a bottle; it tasted just fine straight from the faucet.

I know there is a lot of wondrous stuff going on lately, but those were some pretty good days too. So being an "old, white-haired dude" is not such a bad thing, because we got in on some really good things.

Even though our memory sometimes fails us and we have a hard time remembering what they were.

[ez2rock2]

Mr.Sheiffer: It is time to retire. You''re like Mr.McCain...80 years plus makes you a better gardner than operator. Rove is just a give-away you should have never let get-away. It shows your age. You let the criminal go!

[jncc1701]

In Paris'' defense she was minding her own business. McCain decided that the credit crisis, faltering economy, school districts laying off teachers and the ever present threat of terrorism did not make a good anti Obama ad.
She had every right to indulge herself in this instance.

[veteran188]

Untold thousands of WW II Vet''s were locked up as POW''s

as well,

why is no one touting their service and calling them hero''s and making them into republicon senator''s

why? Because McCain is an aristocratic scam ,just like Bush

McSame!

[veteran188]

mcains military service?

what military service?

Locked up as a POW? what SERVICE? what did he do above
and beyond the call of duty??

[cfin5]

Posted by mudcatii at 07:21 PM : Aug 11, 2008---- Thanks,....You just made his point more pertinent. Better to be old and wise, than young and foolish. What is a sorrier state to be in is when folly still rules after many lessons of life.

[mudcatii]

Mr. Schieffer,

Last week you falsely accused Senator Obama of denigrating Senator McCain%u2019s military service. This week you reported that in a telephone conversation with Mrs. Edwards that she was in tears. What kind of a response did you expect from her after what she is going through both physically and psychologically. How would your wife respond if the National Inquirer reported that you had had an affair with Lara Logan or Paris Hilton? Mr. Schieffer you are a hard news journalists not a tabloid hack. Is your behavior dictated by ratings? Each week you sink lower and lower. You need to give Mr. Cronkite a call and arrange a meeting so you can get your bearings.
Are you explaining your behavior on your old white haired dude persona?

[jdrower-2009]

Bob thought his comments were funny but just underscore how increasingly unaware he is of the world he occupies. Time to get out of the way for someone that doesn''t get dizzy at how fast the society is changing.

[jdrower-2009]

Bob thought his comments were funny but just underscore how increasingly unaware he is of the world he occupies. Time to get out of the way for someone that doesn''t get dizzy at how fast the society is changing.

[old300d]

I watch that white-haired dude every Sunday !

Never miss it ! Never !

Bob is the BEST ! ! !

[noloyalisti]

The right wing corporations who run the media, the military and the government want another useless Alzheimers puppet like Reagan so they can control the country. That''s how it works in fascist countries.