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mickeyrat said:

Rahm Emanuel, seen as a potential 2028 contender, is pushing for a 75-year maximum age limit for individuals holding office.

“You can’t serve in the armed forces. You can’t serve in a private sector job,” Emanuel told reporters during a Christian Science Monitor event. https://trib.al/Rsz6sUa

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I’d like there to be a Presidential Medical Commission for Fitness of Duty to be President whereas both parties in the house and senate select medical professionals from the following fields: psychiatry, heart and vascular, cognitive, mental health, oncology and general health primary care, or some other critical health care field. Each party would put out a call for applications to serve on the commission, review them to a high standard of qualifications and select 10 from each specialty, creating a pool of 100-120.

All candidates for POTUS to be eligible to be on the ballot would have to be examined by the 10 specialists, 5 from each party, and deemed fit for duty by simple majority or 2/3 majority. The 10 would be selected randomly by lottery, by each party and for each specialty, using the same method, ping pong balls with numbers, random number generator, etc. Medical professionals and candidates would be sworn to secrecy and acknowledge that the identity of the medical professionals is considered top secret and sharing the information would be considered treasonous, punishable by $1M fine and 20 years in prison. 

Resume/application review and selection of the pool would occur in a SCIF and all applicant names/addresses would have been blacked out. Successful candidates get assigned a number and are notified by someone with a top secret clearance and sworn to secrecy. Non-selected candidates would be notified and eligible to re-apply. Reasonable travel expenses and a stipend of competitive hourly rates would be paid, tax free for their service if selected and required to travel to DC.

All exams would be conducted at Walter Reed or Andrews Airforce Base, over a weekend whereas all involved are sequestered. A medical report would be released to the public, identifying all medical issues with a final determination of fit/unfit. If determined to be unfit, there’d be an appeals process with a separate pool of randomly selected medical professionals and the doctors selected from those medical areas where the candidate failed.

Medical professionals would be in the pool for three years, with staggered terms so that every year some percentage of the pool is replaced. Doctors would be available for initial getting on the ballot exams and serving for the annual medical check ups, and any other health issues that might arise during the POTUS’s term.

All records and identities would be sealed for 50 years, except the medical fitness for duty and annual check up reports issued to the public. Height, weight, BP, cognitive exam, cholesterol, cardiovascular test and mental health information and medicines taken or taking would be released. Candidate/POTUS must finish their term by age 75 and would not be eligible for a second term if they turn 75 during any portion of their first or second term.

We gotta do something to keep narcissistic, out of touch, sociopaths out of the Oval Office, or someone incapable of making it through 4 years.