I swear, I grabbed these two images more or less at random, and I was stunned how well they fit together.
There’s a website, Deaniacs for Edwards, that asserts that Edwards is the guy “who seems to best capture the spirit and values that activated so many ordinary Americans four years ago to support Howard Dean.” I’m not sure about that, but I do like Edwards a lot—he seems to be smart on the issues that matter to me, and me, I like smart.
It really was that simple so many years ago when I first saw George W. Bush…ten seconds of watching him on camera and I came away with: “dumb guy.” Amazing how a judgement like that gets processed by some part of your brain that one may not even have direct control over. The thing for me is I have big trouble visualizing the opposite…I can’t put myself, and I’ve tried, into the mindset of seeing Bush for the first time and thinking “lead me, oh great one.” Nope, can’t do it. My own limitation.
May 4th, 2007 at 10:58 am
For Bush, it’s the close-set eyes that do it — make him look dumb, that is.
May 4th, 2007 at 11:36 am
yeah… try Bush and Dean… I betcha it’d be a close match…
May 6th, 2007 at 9:09 am
You said: “I can’t put myself, and I’ve tried, into the mindset of seeing Bush for the first time and thinking “lead me, oh great one.” Nope, can’t do it. My own limitation.”
You were cursed/blessed to have not received the “inner jock sniffer” gene. In the psycho-sexual-political matrix, that’s where Glorious Leader’s appeal resonates in his fan base. Quite ironic, considering that Emperor Clusterfolk was a cheerleader, not really a jock. And so, all of that “sunny nobility” throbbing in his codpiece flies right by you, undetected. Mission: Unaccomplished.
“Heaven is a place that isn’t like high school.”
-Somebody