The Carpetbagger Report wonders why Mitt had to answer for being Mormon, Barack for being black, Richardson for being brown and Hillary for being penis-free, but the GOP candidate John McCain has yet to open the dialog on being a geezer.

When I was five years old, a car pulled up in front of our house in New London, Connecticut, and a Navy officer rolled down the window, and shouted at my father that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. My father immediately left for the submarine base where he was stationed. I rarely saw him again for four years.

Carpetbagger points out:

Now, I suspect the story was intended to remind the audience about the proud military history in McCain’s family, but there were probably more than a few people who heard the anecdote and thought, “Wait, McCain was already five in 1941?"