Hey Keith! Thank you for apologizing for "Calling them Old Ladies"...

[KoKo]

My MIL and my Aunties for Obama accept your apology. The correct word, KO is "Elderly" Ladies attacked Obama supporters at Palin Rally.

All those "Old Ladies" who watch you are thinking about when they were out there protesting against Iraq Invasion and who fight for Womens Rights and the Enviornment and Volunteer at Polling Places and do many good deeds on both sides of the Aisle.

I'll pass along your apologies to my family folk. After all, sometimes everyone over 40 can look "old" to someone. :D

[grasswire]

1. 65 is not elderly

Elderly is 80. Sixty-five is "pre-seniors" or something. After all, those who came of age in the sixties are THE rock and roll generation -- the generation of the Beatles, the Doors, the Rolling Stones. It's just wrong to call them ELDERLY.

[Left Is Write]

2. Sorry, but 65 is not a "pre-senior."

[KoKo]

You'd prefer: "Old Ladies beat up young Obama Protestors?"

rather than "Elderly?" :eyes:

[Left Is Write]

3. "Elderly ladies" sound older than "old ladies."

:P

[KoKo]

4. Well....whatever he apologized three times...so I guess he got some instant feedback.

So, maybe my MIL and her buddies got after him.

[Left Is Write]

5. Yeah, but he was pretty giggly while he was doing it.

[murray hill farm]

6. Hey speak for yourself.

I am 67 and regularly refer to myself as an "old lady" or an "old woman"....you and yours prefer "elderly"??????? Why? The visual of "elderly" is really, really, really, really old. The visual of "old woman" is something else all together...it is connected with wisdom that comes with years of living. I am sure it is the same with men....old man is a good thing, but elderly is well.....just not at all a good thing. The visual for elderly is frail and living in a facility or soomething. Just call me a proud and happy and fully alive old lady any day.

[Connie_Corleone]

7. Elderly sounds frail and feeble.

[KoKo]

8. Maybe he should have just said: "Older Women"...but, I think he

was going for the "Old Ladies with Umbrellas" kind of image...which was pretty funny, really. But, I could see why some might get upset.

[Heather MC]

9. My Church calls them "Seasoned Saints"

[KoKo]

10. Now that's one many of us could go for....couldn't we?