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 3:33 PM