RITES OF PASSAGE

{PJT: Each had a competing military photo from his youth.}

A rite of passage almost uniquely amongst males. Women prefer the Trophy Wife with the 2.3 children, blond hair and blue eyes.

Democracy has its faults. Choosing our leaders in LaLaLand on the Potomac by means of their physical attributes is one of them.

Why does no one publish a copy of their SAT-scores?

An interesting take. I wonder how it applies to Bush vs. Kerry. Kerry played hockey and went windsurfing. Bush played Top Gun and cut brush. Each had a competing military photo from his youth.

As to the question of why politicians are different ... I recall reading that Winston Churchill was said to acutely feel a lack of maternal affection. It was said of Richard Nixon that he was a very serious child who was, if not unhuggable, not hugged very often. (Kissinger famously commented something like: “Imagine what Nixon might have become if only his mother had loved him.”) And, finally, I believe Rose Kennedy is said to have never hugged JFK.

CAVORTING

If our leaders could put on such behavioural nonsense it must be that they were told “the people suck it up”. We, the sheeple, we luv it.

Go figure ... it’s neanderthalish and one cannot imagine a woman PotUS who would lower her personal dignity by cavorting with such undignified behaviour as “the leader of the free world”.

So, if anything, this is male behaviour at its worst. Meaning they’ve confused freedom-of-speech for freedom-of-cavorting-like-a-first-class-assh*le.

In short, humanity has less sense and intelligence, than God gace geese.

Gerard:

You make a good point: our entire society is based around a “look at me” attitude, from Facebook to American Idol, from online photos to almost any “reality” show.  [Are you aware that they are planning an “American Idol”-type show to choose a “candidate” for president in 2012, the winner of which will be given a certain amount of money to start their campaign?  I kid you not!]

Actually, though, I think it is the AVERAGE person who has the “self-select, look-at-me” attitude.  Politicians (particularly in the U.S.) are chosen by the corporatocracy (and/or through the Bilderberg Group).

Peace.

Maybe R. Reeves is on to what the future will be. A throng of male “packages” and
Sarah’s next bus tour “boobs a la Revere” to seduce the un-employed and bored
American.

  Uncle Zeb [whose close to 69 years old] and lives up in the Ozarks has always had
a yen to gaze at Ms. Sarah’s bodice “au naturel” as a deciding factor whether to
vote for or agin.

  He’s hoping that her next bus tour will stop by his fishing hole.

At least we might agree on the fact that “Hey, Look at me!” is the most common personal request ofpeople living through what passes for “modern times.” WWe are all in a hurry to be “self-selected”, to “matter”, to show off, to be noticed.

The extreme TV shows are nothing but.  Mass sporting events, pretty much the same.  The entire fashion business and its millions of followers, ditto. The TV business is fueled by ads encouraging people to “look their best” so “people will look at them.”  It’s one of the first things children say repeatedly:
        “Mom, Dad .. Look at me!”

JFK was a self-selected man?  That would have been news to his father, Joe
Kennedy.  Joe was the driving force behind the Kennedy clan, and anyone who
took even the slightest amount of time researching JFK’s rise to the Presidency
would realize that. Joe Kennedy was the self-selected man and patriarch; John,
while remarkable in his own way, was by no means “self-selected.”

It appears that the author stared at a few pics of JFK, mixed his latent homosexual
attraction with a heavy dose of conventional (mythologized) wisdom, and blurted
out (or should I say ejaculated?) the first thing that came to mind.

Two thumbs way down.

Is this the same thing as the religious right claiming that God wants them to be elected?