Mitt Romney courts Hispanics as an Oompa Loompa

I know I am going to get flamed for this but it is not easy being white. I am the whitest person you will ever meet and i can't go in the sun much and will get skin cancer first if I do. I can see this is sort of a funny thread if it really is not meant meanly, but seriously. I would love to have the money to tan myself once a week with a spray tan.

Raees wrote: I'll say it again...

Raees wrote: I think this is a historical low in political pandering. I can't remember any presidential candidate every doing something like this.

And I'll remind you once again that ever since Kennedy was deemed to have won a debate over Nixon because he looked healthier on the television, the appearance of the candidates has become a very important element in the campaign for office. What made the difference? Kennedy's tan and the prep work his campaign did to gain the full benefit of it ahead of the debate. Folks listening to the debate on the radio, which is to say those who judged the debate on the content of it, overwhelmingly declared Nixon to be the winner of it. Problem was that more folks watched it on TV than listened to it on the radio, and they overwhelmingly gave it to Kennedy, based in large part on the visual image he presented.

That debate was a game changer in national politics Raees. From that point forward it has been important to have a bright, articulate, clean, good looking candidate, that's the storybook man.

PrintSmith wrote:

Raees wrote: I'll say it again...

Raees wrote: I think this is a historical low in political pandering. I can't remember any presidential candidate every doing something like this.

And I'll remind you once again that ever since Kennedy was deemed to have won a debate over Nixon because he looked healthier on the television, the appearance of the candidates has become a very important element in the campaign for office. What made the difference? Kennedy's tan and the prep work his campaign did to gain the full benefit of it ahead of the debate. Folks listening to the debate on the radio, which is to say those who judged the debate on the content of it, overwhelmingly declared Nixon to be the winner of it. Problem was that more folks watched it on TV than listened to it on the radio, and they overwhelmingly gave it to Kennedy, based in large part on the visual image he presented.

That debate was a game changer in national politics Raees. From that point forward it has been important to have a bright, articulate, clean, good looking candidate, that's the storybook man.

Joe Biden agrees...

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man."

Right from the horses-ass mouth.

PrintSmith wrote:

Raees wrote: I'll say it again...

Raees wrote: I think this is a historical low in political pandering. I can't remember any presidential candidate every doing something like this.

And I'll remind you once again that ever since Kennedy was deemed to have won a debate over Nixon because he looked healthier on the television, the appearance of the candidates has become a very important element in the campaign for office.

You don't have to remind me, professor. I think most of us here already knew that Kennedy won the debates because he was more photogenic on TV.

CinnamonGirl wrote: I know I am going to get flamed for this but it is not easy being white. I am the whitest person you will ever meet and i can't go in the sun much and will get skin cancer first if I do. I can see this is sort of a funny thread if it really is not meant meanly, but seriously. I would love to have the money to tan myself once a week with a spray tan.

I feel for you. My wife is Irish and very pale. So pale, she is almost translucent. I kid her that she glows in the dark. Alabaster skin. And she doesn't tan, just turns red.

My kids have very similar skin tones, I doubt anyone would say that one is "whiter" than the other, yet my son goes out in the sun and burns rapidly, my daughter gets a beautiful tan, I don't think she has ever had a real sunburn. You have to watch out for the artificial tanning though, I tried it once to even out a natural tan so I wouldn't have obvious tan lines in a sundress, and found I was allergic to the stuff. I'll take untanned to covered in a rash any day.

FredHayek wrote:

CinnamonGirl wrote: I know I am going to get flamed for this but it is not easy being white. I am the whitest person you will ever meet and i can't go in the sun much and will get skin cancer first if I do. I can see this is sort of a funny thread if it really is not meant meanly, but seriously. I would love to have the money to tan myself once a week with a spray tan.

I feel for you. My wife is Irish and very pale. So pale, she is almost translucent. I kid her that she glows in the dark. Alabaster skin. And she doesn't tan, just turns red.

It is not exactly gorgeous in the spring to have bright white legs. ( I almost said ghost white but thought better of it since I guess that could be taken wrong. It is just a way to describe)

Raees wrote:

PrintSmith wrote:

Raees wrote: I'll say it again...

Raees wrote: I think this is a historical low in political pandering. I can't remember any presidential candidate every doing something like this.

And I'll remind you once again that ever since Kennedy was deemed to have won a debate over Nixon because he looked healthier on the television, the appearance of the candidates has become a very important element in the campaign for office.

You don't have to remind me, professor. I think most of us here already knew that Kennedy won the debates because he was more photogenic on TV.

Well most of us here knew the history of the 22nd Amendment too, but some of us here didn't. At least I have a good time frame now as to what was before your time and what isn't. That should prove helpful in the future.

Professor, just because someone is aware of something in past history doesn't mean it wasn't before their time. It only means they know about it.

Geez, you must have a corncob stuck up your behind, you are so serious.

Give PrintSmith a break, he and the other conservatives here are watching their prize candidate self destruct before their very eyes. That would put anyone in a seriously crappy mood.