Male vanity in a politician is just creepy

Jewish World Review ^ | July 12, 2004 | Bernadette Malone

[ColoCdn]

Former Oompa Bernadette opines:

"Then there were the reports — impossible not to believe once you've compared his before and after photos — that Kerry receives Botox treatments to diminish his wrinkles. I thought it was great that his wife admits to using Botox, but women are supposed to be vain. The thought of my next President lying back in the dermatologist's chair to have botulism bacteria injected into his facial muscles so his eyebrows and smile will freeze in place and look taut makes me queasy.

In 2000 it was reported that Al Gore had found a new way to apply his make-up: He had a cosmetologist spray-gun a fine mist of orange paint onto his face. (No danger to the ozone layer, rest assured.) I admit that the time I had to wear a white dress with spaghetti straps to a dance, I first patronized Hollywood Tans, where I stood in a tin box the size of a telephone booth and allowed strategically placed jet streams to bathe me with bronzing chemicals. But again: the fairer sex is allowed to be vain. Vain men are just plain creepy."

[ColoCdn]

The Oompas say they're not creepy at all. However, Lurcha Loompa (their name for John) was a bit out of the ordinary.

[EggsAckley]

A rule at Free Republic is to NOT change the title of an article.

This article is actually titled Male vanity in a politician is just creepy

Please don't change titles.

[Palladin]

Aw, heck! Oompa Loompas is so much funnier.

[EggsAckley]

Heheh. I agree that it IS funny but..........

Rules Is Rules.................

[E. Pluribus Unum]

John Fraud Kerry is just a Gary Condit wannabe.

[ColoCdn]

The title DID suck!!

But... rules, rules, rules. (Keep reminding self: The lines are our friends. The lines are our friends.)

For those who didn't see it... Original title was:

Oompa Loompas Find Long Lost Relatives (Algore and Lurcha Loompa)

Thanks, Eggs Ackley, for the head's up. If it's strictly a vanity post, can the title be whatever?

[ColoCdn]

Previous post should read:

The Original website title DID suck.

[theFIRMbss]

>Male vanity in a politician is just creepy

When does Male Vanity become Narcissistic? "Male vanity has become increasingly important to society in the past few decades. For example there has been a larger market of male hygiene products as well as the production of magazines targeted specifically to promote men's toning and grooming, such as Men's Health and Men's Fitness. But the question remains: at what point does this vanity become narcissistic? "American Men spend about $700 million dollars a year on finding a solution to their balding and thinning hair. Waxing body hair and liposuction for men has also become popular as well as the use of steroids, melanin, and testosterone for bodybuilding. Ten thousand American men have had surgery to enlarge the penis. It can be argued that these practices are extreme, so extreme in fact to make them narcissistic. ..."

[EggsAckley]

Of course, a vanity can be titled any way you wish.

When you change a title, it can cause multiple postings of the same article, since another Freeper may do a search on a title, not find it, and then post the article, even though it's already here, but under a different title.

[N. Theknow]

Yeth, but Kerry ith a metrothexual.

Kerry spends more on a bottle of wine than any of us do on a monthly car payment.

[crushelits]

[spodefly]

Botox and fake tans ... just the sort of metrosexual cake-boy we need in the White House to go up against people that train for years to fly planes into our buildings, and videotape themselves beheading fathers, and live to die in glorious Jihad.

A President Kerry might actually have an effect on terrorism ... they will be too busy laughing to cut off any heads

[js1138]

Nearly everyone on television wears makeup. I have no problem with that. But denying it is sick.

[alcuin]

> . . . cosmetologist spray-gun . . .<
Was not a spray-gun used to enhance a certain portion of Gore's anatomy, by an enabler mag?
But I guess times have changed, and PETRIFIED MOMS are focused on their soon-to-be-drafted babes-in-arms.

[El Gato]

The thought of my next President lying back in the dermatologist's chair to have botulism bacteria injected

I believe they only inject the toxin, not the bacteria...at least not live ones. Still it is creepy. I don't care if it a man or a woman doing it, it's creepy either way. <ssshiver

[no dems]

I noticed this article is from the Jewish World Review. How is it looking for The Prez in the Jewish community?

[Pa-gal]

I am expecting kerry to morph into Michael Jackson any time now.

[newzjunkey]

Polling suggests they are still voting Kerry in droves.

[mabelkitty]

Where is the brown thing that lived on John Edwards' lip all during the primary?

[nickcarraway]

ping