Tim Dunlop nails a point I've harped on about for too long: George Bush is not coming to dinner at your place. Not now when he's asking for your vote. Not afterwards.
I don't think there is another country on earth where the issue of whether you'd like to "have a beer" with the candidate--or whatever other criteria you use to define "likeability"--is considered a serious criteria for electing a national leader. Was Margaret Thatcher worried about her "likeability" quotient? Was Churchill? Is John Howard? Tony Blair? Helen Clarke? Silvio Berlusconi? Does another nation even mention the issue?Posted by robe0419 at October 19, 2004 03:33 PM | TrackBack
I'm glad somebody has mentioned this, because I've always believed this to be among the chief insanities of American politics. I don't know the President, or Senator Kerry, and I'm never going to get to know them. Ergo, I don't care whether or not the President seems like a nice guy. What a bizarre and vapid criterion upon which to choose your candidate.
Posted by: Stacie at October 19, 2004 10:32 PM