Age vs Wisdom #245 By Hank Silverberg Ageism How old is too old to be president, or Senate Minority Leader, or Speaker of the House, or a Supreme Court Justice? (How old is to old?) This question has come up a number of times over the last few months as we enter the political season, and it did so again this week when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, 81, appeared to have some kind of medical issue right in the middle of a news conference. He froze up and could not even finish his sentence. He had to be slowly ushered away by colleagues. McConnell had a concussion in March when he fell at a Washington hotel and was absent from the Senate for a few weeks. He has never really been the same since. There's a great deal of political maneuvering over when and if he should resign, as there has been with California Senator Diane Feinstein who also has some serious m