President Bush turns 60 on Thursday

  WASHINGTON (AP) – The most powerful man in the world turns 60 on Thursday and he just can’t seem to stop talking about it. Barely a week has gone by this year that President Bush has not brought up his advancing age at least o n c e.
  “How you doing, sir?” a reporter asked Bush at a news conference a few hours after a middle-of-the-night return from a grueling sprint to Baghdad. “I’m do*ing all right, thank you,” the president replied. “A little jet lagged, as I’m sure you can imagine. Nearly 60.” In his State of the Union address, the president re*ferred to his upcoming birthday as “a personal cri*s is.” In fact, Bush is nearly al*ways cracking wise when the topic of his age comes up. The humor, however, con*tains unmistakably wistful notes, revealing a president who is least somewhat pen*sive both about aging and his relevance after he leaves the White House in 31 months.
  Bush’s “I’m getting old” preoccupation puts him in good company.
  Cher, Bill Clinton, Dolly Parton, Donald Trump, Sylvester Stallone, Diane Keaton, Suzanne Somers, Reggie Jackson and Jimmy Buffet also are turning 60 in 2006. They are part of the first wave of the 78-million strong baby boomers to en*ter their senior years.
  Karl Pillemer, a professor of human development at Cornell University, said the president’s musings are re*flective of the group.
  Boomers brought ad*vances in the civil rights and women’s rights movements. But the generation also in*troduced America to what Pillemer called “the new n a rc i s s i s m .” Like most presidents, Bush has grayer hair, more lines and a few extra pounds than when he took office. Yet he still has the health statis*tics and energy of a much younger man

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Think we will be invited to his party?