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Old Sat Jun 30, 2012, 03:06pm
cbfoulds cbfoulds is offline
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Originally Posted by johnnyg08 View Post
How many politicians wear beards?

It creates the perception of not being trustworthy.

Our association has no policy against it.
I'm confused: are you asserting that many politicians wear beards, and thus beards make one appear untrustworthy?

Or that [credit George Carlin]:
"Karl Marx wore a beard .. Lenin wore a beard .. (Gabby Hayes wore whiskers!)" - somehow beards are "untrutworthy" and so politicians avoid wearing them?

Are you forgetting "Honest Abe"? - and about half of the men elected president in the 1800's?

Beards are a cultural manifestation that come and go according to fashion whims over time.

Last edited by cbfoulds; Sat Jun 30, 2012 at 03:27pm.
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