Feeling Old

Barack Obama is 47 and his wife Michelle is 44. Based on that, here are some fun age-related facts that serve absolutely no useful purpose.

Barack is:

• The first president too young to have gone to Woodstock....
• The first president too young to have been drafted....
• The first president younger than Caroline Kennedy....
• The first president younger than almost all of the Brady Bunch (he's 10 days older than Cindy).

(Actually, the first item isn't entirely true. Obama would have been eight at the time of Woodstock. And if you believe the Republicans' assertions that he was a top adviser to the Weather Underground at that age, Obama would certainly have been able to go to Woodstock.)

And Michelle is:

• First first lady too young to have voted for Jimmy Carter....
• First first lady to graduate from high school in the 1980s....
• First first lady younger than 60 percent of the stars of The Breakfast Club....
• First first lady younger than Madonna.

The only thing I might add to that list is that he's the first President younger than me.

I can feel my prostate enlarging even as I type these words....