7 thoughts on “I Didn’t Know He Ever Had Any”

  1. I think that is because you voted based on content of character rather than judging people on their looks and charms. Perhaps if you were a feminist, a homosexual, or a metrosexual; you might have voted on the sex appeal.

  2. During Clinton’s term, I was doing a lot of lobbying for commercial space. As a result, my Democrat friends would invite me to any presidential events held in Sou Cal, and get me really good seats.

    I saw Clinton speak twice, and must say that I understand the sway he held. It never came across to me on television, but in person he exuded a personal magnetism that would fill a football stadium. In the longer of the speeches, given at Cal State Northridge, he was saying some of the most un-American things I had ever heard anyone say — and in spite of it, I couldn’t help being filled with a sense that this person was a really good guy.

    At that event, they even staged an outburst from a heckler, to give Clinton a opportunity to show how quick-witted, yet completely classy he was. And that was my initial reaction: “How classy!” It took me a few minutes to realize that it was staged, but even that realization wouldn’t dispel the man’s charisma.

    Sociopaths can be charismatic. We’ve had plenty of examples of such people being in positions of power over the millenia. I don’t know what it is about them, but it is a fact. And it’s the best reason to have a government of laws and not men…

  3. Mfk, your story reminds me of meeting Phil Gramm in person. When I saw him in the media, he seemed warm and considerate. When I actually was introduced to him and shook his hand; I found him to be disdainful and inconsiderate. The reason for my introduction to him, was I was asked to fill in as a typist to put his speech into a teleprompter. The normal person was missing for some reason; and some people remembered that I could type pretty fast. I had other things to do, but I was willing to help out. He certainly didn’t seem to care. Alas, they found the original typist, and I was happy not to help out the jerk.

  5. Raging narcissists are often sexy, to a point. If this wasn’t true, the movie business pretty much wouldn’t exist. Of course the movie business wisely backs up the sexy affect with physical attractiveness because the affect is frequently quite perishable. Looks will often still get you by when you’ve been repeatedly revealed to be a douchebag. Politicians rarely have this cushion of physical attractiveness to fall back on. In the one notable case that bridges the worlds of show business and politics – Ronald Reagan – the affect put him across long after he’d passed from leading man to character player in the looks department.

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