Leaders should be sexy.

"Leaders should be sexy.

Posted by shirtsbyeric"

Well, they should at least be able to fog a mirror.

Well, they should at least be able to fog a mirror.

Or see themselves in one. Cheney, I'm looking in your direction...

This is true. CNN's now in HD, too. Interesting to look at the context of politicians and campaigns before TV, after TV, and now the ramifications of HDTV.

This isn't specific to McCain, though he really does look rough.

Buy cosmetic stocks!

Ness made a funny. You're flagged, biatch ;)

Well, they should at least be able to fog a mirror.

Or see themselves in one. Cheney, I'm looking in your direction...

Posted by ness_gadol

FF of the year.

Swish!

McCain is bad enough on the issues that we don't need to take into account these superficial aspects of his person.

SCORE!

Frighteningly true FF for Ness.

Do you Liberals already forget about the comment Rush Limbaugh made about people not wanting to see Hillary age during her presidency?

"McCain is bad enough on the issues that we don't need to take into account these superficial aspects of his person.

Posted by member2586"

If it was just about appearance, I would agree it might not be any more important than Hillary's ankles or Obama's ears. But these aspects, as they pertain to his age and health, should and must be taken into account.

HDTV will show the smallest of pimples on one's face. So imagine before HD you could use cover up to hide imperfections is no longer of any use.

So therefore wrinkles and spots will show up as if you are standing face to face with the person. In one aspect HD is great and then in this aspect it sucks I truly don't need to see hsi wrinkles or spots up close and that stands true for Hillary as well.
.45 Cal

Do you Liberals already forget about the comment Rush Limbaugh made about people not wanting to see Hillary age during her presidency?

I try to avoid that dillhole at all costs. He takes stupid to a whole new level and it ain't good.

Not wanting to see Hillary age? Good god, if Gramps McSame gets any older he will begin to look like Skeletor.

726 , I think that McCain's 95 year old mother and his 127 year old grandmother and 156 year old great grand mother will want to kick your ass, lol!

I agree that mccan't is damn close to dribbling his pablum and wetting his depends, but I don't care so much about pimples...gimme a tv that will show the bullshit in all of these clowns' heads.

Some say Nixon lost to Kennedy because of his on-screen appearance in the televised debate.

So, did we have ugly looking presidents before then?

Some say Nixon lost to Kennedy because of his on-screen appearance in the televised debate.

I think that is absolutely true.


After Nixon's loss, he spent an inordinate amount of time on his TV image, much the same way that Hillary has done so in this election cycle.

"Some say Nixon lost to Kennedy because of his on-screen appearance in the televised debate.

Posted by danni"

It may have been either the constant eye-shifting, or the sweating like a pig that was the problem.

"Some say Kerry lost to Bush because of things like this."

LOL! The picture on the right reminds me of Woody Allen dressed as sperm in "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex".

McCain looks like death warmed over, Obama loks great and sounds better, the war and the economy are doing badly. If you libs can't win this one then when will you win?

As I've said before, I've met with and talked with McCain. It was just after his cancer surgery in 2001, but regardless it was really striking at both how frail he is and how much makeup they must use on him for TV. At that time I really didn't feel that I was looking at a man who was physically up to the job of president and that was 7 years ago.

726 , I think that McCain's 95 year old mother and his 127 year old grandmother and 156 year old great grand mother will want to kick your ass, lol!

Posted by member2586


Bring em on.


I have beat the shit out of a lot of old people in my time, and I am not above doing it again.

I have beat the shit out of a lot of old people in my time, and I am not above doing it again.

FF!

You don't have to be old to look bad on HDTV. Keith Olbermann is orange and they don't get the paint too close to his hair or eyebrows. He is very pale around all his hair lines and there is a definite hard line where the orange begins. Then MSNBC zooms in on his head allot. A 3 foot Olbermann head is scary.

"Maybe they could give y'all some fresh material."

Not necessary. He provides it daily.

"You don't have to be old to look bad on HDTV. Keith Olbermann is orange and they don't get the paint too close to his hair or eyebrows. He is very pale around all his hair lines and there is a definite hard line where the orange begins. Then MSNBC zooms in on his head allot. A 3 foot Olbermann head is scary.

Posted by KBM"

O'Reilly, get off this blog. Don't you have a show to air?

Now begone before you earn Worst Person in the World honors again today.

DOH!bermann should have an Obama campaign sticker tatooed on his forehead.

He is as poor an example of objective journalism as I have ever seen, HD or not.

"He is as poor an example of objective journalism..."

Probably because he isn't one, and doesn't claim to be one. That's not his job. He's a commentator pure and simple.

"He's a commentator pure and simple.

Posted by SanAntonioRogue at 2008-05-21 12:07 PM"

How dare you interrupt another pro-Clinton rant by CorkPipeBeggar? That's sexist.

Must be a real bad news day.

DOH!bermann ...


We turn the channel when he is on...he scares the little ones!

Face it, reality as a whole isn't too kind to McSame.

At the time Obama was getting wright-boated by the librul media, he opened up a 7 point lead on Johnnyboy, whose main support comes from old farts and the six Drudge posters who still believe Bush has a clue.

Yes, he is simple.

So, Aunt Jomama, how's your fling with Mrs. Butterworth going?

Moving to California soon?

Hey NG3,

Those aren't 6 posters who still think Bush has a clue. It is just that moron from Texas posting under 6 different IDs.

"and the six Drudge posters who still believe Bush has a clue."

NG they don't really believe, they just can't admit they were wrong.

Must be a real bad news day.

Posted by Sniper.

Anymore, EVERY day is a real bad news day for McSame. He better hope Huckleberry gets his wish...

Obama loks great and sounds better, the war and the economy are doing badly. If you libs can't win this one then when will you win?

Posted by fwthom

Too bad he is a socialist. Too bad he has a wife and a preacher that don't like the US. Too bad he has socialist friends.

"Do you Liberals already forget about the comment Rush Limbaugh made about people not wanting to see Hillary age during her presidency?"


No because I don't listen to his garbage. But hey, how about that....Hillary lost to Obama so maybe there is something to it.

I know it's been said plenty of times that it Nixon appearance on TV that did him in against Kennedy.

Fortunately for McSame, his base is still watching on 13 inch black and white TVs and wondering where that nice boy, Lawrence Welk went.

"Noah: HDTV Isn't Kind to McCain"

YEAH!

And in response to this Joe Lieberman am crafting legislation to ban HDTV as a Vehicle of Terrorism!

Given the appearance of your average elected official, is their demand that we all get HD gonna bite them in the ass?

Make that in their wrinkly, saggy ass?

What's with the swelling on the right side of his face ?

"Fortunately for McSame, his base is still watching on 13 inch black and white TVs and wondering where that nice boy, Lawrence Welk went.

Posted by northguy3"

FF NG!

I do not want McCain ever to be President. He will follow the Bush cabal's orders because that is why he was even allowed to run and get this far in the first place.

(OK. Now that part is out of the way.)

DEMOCRATS -- BEWARE OF SENIOR-CITIZEN BACKLASH

You libs are idiots to keep bringing up McCain's age over and over again as to why he shouldn't be president. 71 is not that old. If you're 32, yeah, McCain seems ancient. BUT when you act condescending and keep ridiculing McCain over and over on his age issue alone you are, without realizing it, also angering the largest voting block in the U.S. -- older voters age 65 and up -- and believe me they do get out and vote.

It will be your elderly neighbor who goes out in the pouring rain to make sure they get to vote on election day -- not your pimply faced, shallow, "I'd rather party than vote today" self-centered, college-age kid. This FACT has been proven true over and over again.

When you ridicule McCain ONLY for his being "old and worthless" you are by comparison also dissing all other senior citizen voters aged 65 and up who do not agree with the Democrats that they too then must be doddering and senile idiots. You just may have some of their anger backlash on you at the voting booth by them voting for McCain if only to make a statement that a person that age can do a worthwhile job, can think, are intelligent, and are not worthless.

There are SO MANY things you can use to attack McBush on that affects Seniors other than his age issue. Instead of just always only bringing up his age as a reason not to vote for him, instead tell senior citizens how McBush stands on issues that matter to many of them such as how McCain wants to privatize Social Security, under McBush the cost for heating oil seniors citizens need to keep warm in the winter is going to keep increasing, that their Medicare program would be threatened, that costs for everyday necessities will keep going up -- and cost/price issues are major concern for many of them on fixed incomes.

What I'm trying to say --

STFU by over and over again bringing up McCain's age. With all the so many important issues out there to discuss, for the Democrats to keep using age as the sole reason not to vote for McCain -- when millions of senior citizens who DO VOTE are his same age and older -- the Dems may just get a senior citizen voter backlash thrown back in their face. No one to hear that someone else their own age (71) and many much older are nothing but worthless, old, and bording on senility.

I can give you 15 reasons right off the top of my head why McCain should never be elected but his being 71 YO is not one of them.

bording = bordering

"You libs are idiots to keep bringing up McCain's age over and over again as to why he shouldn't be president. 71 is not that old."

My Dad is 76, a Republican, active, and in great health. He says McCain is too old for the rigors of the Presidency.

But I agree with CC, there are LOTS of other very good reasons he shouldn't get near the White House, except maybe for a courtesy lunch invitation.

Shirtsbyeric is hardly a lib and he saysKennedy is too old to be Senator, harldy a high stress job like the Presidency.
It's not only McSame's age, its the fact he's losing it. He's forgotten where he stood aon nearly every major issue, except Iraq, where he remembers being totally wrong.

Chris when he chooses his VP his age will be an issue because of the higher probability that the VP will have to step into the presidency so McCain can't choose a Dan Quayle or a Mike Huckabee.

John McCain's campaign is using their campaign website to encourage supporters to post supportive comments on political blogs, including the most well-known liberal site in the blogosphere. And to make things easier, they're including talking points with which sympathizers can use to get out the McCain message.

"Select from the numerous web, blog and news sites listed here, go there, and make your opinions supporting John McCain known," instructs the page.

McCain supporters are asked to send the details of their comment to the campaign, which in turn will verify it and then reward the supporter with "points" (assumedly to accumulate for McCain swag)

Among the "featured blogs" currently is Daily Kos, the well-read liberal blog run by Markos Moulitsas that frequently mocks and attacks Republicans such as McCain.

Asked about the effort to gin up online support, McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said, "We absolutely encourage our supporters to engage in this discussion."

As for the talking points, which currently link over to two recent McCain speeches, Rogers said they were "facts about John McCain and his record."

"I can give you 15 reasons right off the top of my head why McCain should never be elected but his being 71 YO is not one of them.

Posted by CalifChris"

Here's a couple...

Charlie Black is McCain's chief political adviser. Over the past seven years, lobbying filings show he's used his connections with George Bush and Dick Cheney to lobby administration officials for dozens of wealthy clients. The Washington Post reported that "Black said he does a lot of his work by telephone from McCain's Straight Talk Express bus."

and...

Last week, John McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, sent a memo to the McCain campaign staff about a brand new "conflicts policy."

This policy was designed to identify staffers with "conflicts" working within McCain's organization after three advisers resigned from the campaign.

Unfortunately, Rick Davis, author of the memo and the person in charge of finding these "conflicts" within the campaign, founded his own lobbying firm, and, according to the Politico, "has made at least $2.8 million lobbying Congress since 1998."

So if looks has a part to play in the upcoming election. Hillary will lose, because let's be real she is one hoof above Monica Lewinsky.....So what would you rather a cow or prune in the white house??

.45 Caliber

Ya know, McCain is sorta like Lenin-he looks ok as long as his morticians keep up the good work!

Barrack posesses boyish good-looks, a
nice smile - and he has a pretty mouth.

These are great qualifications to be president.

Sure, McCain has more years of experience than
Barrack has years, but he isn't pretty and sometimes
he seems a little grumpy. Old people smell funny too.

I'm happy to know that persons that wear their hats
crooked and can't read their government issued
diplomas will decide who our next president will be
based on 'beauty'.

What a deeply spiritual generation.

Or perhaps, Asswipe, it is just that little matter of the fact the old guy was gung ho to start a distastrous war half-way around the world against a country that did not threaten us, while the young one opposed the idea. Perhaps that has more to do with it than looks, asswipe.

"Perhaps that has more to do with it than looks, asswipe."

Thas awrite. Us fokes here in the mountins ain't votin fer no arugula eatin Commy. I no you pukes in Origone like im cuz you eat all thet tofu and stuf out thar too. I bet all y'all sit down to pee too. Dam! buncha pansy ass fokes dun't no nuthin bout ribs, grits and prolly hate NASCAR too.

I pee on Nascar tracks. Standing up. During the race. Yeee haaawwwwwww!

What kind of fashion pussy cares how a leader looks on TV? If he can do the job, isn't that enough? He could look like Jabba the Hut but if he is a great President, he's a great President. Who is this Noah wimp?

Ahhh,

Dreams of another pretty-boy Kenedyesque TV victory? I dont' know....I think showing how mangled he is might help him....He should never smile, though, he looks like that damn Jabberjaws when he does.....