Check out the beard on Rutheford B. Hayes! One can hardly see where the moustache ends and the beard begins!
I found this on our local news web page; A slide show survey of presidential facial hair! As I said on Facebook, what we need is a presidential candidate with the breezy panache and chutzpah to sport a beard, without it appearing to be (as in the case of... oh, let's say Al Gore) a silly and desperate attempt at "gravitas".
Okay, some have called Michelle Obama the president's "beard", but I hardly think that's fair...
I can't believe you didn't go with the Chester A. Arthur "chop 'stache".
http://flashyourstache.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/chester_arthur.jpg
Those were the days, eh? You could grow your facial hair however long you wanted, and be taken seriously with a name like "Chester" or "Rutherford".
Still, my favorite isn't a President at all: it's ex-Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/Gideon_welles.jpg
Nice beard, bro.
Posted by: Patrick | 02/21/2011 at 02:44 PM
Happy easter, Mr. Jones, wherever you are!
Posted by: The Pachyderminator | 04/24/2011 at 07:29 AM
A president, Bro Tim, who sports a beard is saying something - something substantive - by doing so. Why expect such an important statement from a standing president who, if one watches the structure of his priorities rather than listens to his themes - clearly isn't interested in any thing like what a beard says and represents?
The hiatus here at The League of Bearded Catholics has been, I have no doubts, a fruitful one. We, like GKC's League of the Long Bow, are no mere political organization that sees the direction the crowd is going and jumps out front crying, "Follow us! Follow us!" Nay.
TLOBC, like Mother Church herself takes the long view and knows that, like beards, history takes a long time to grow. Let us rejoice this Easter Monday. Cheers
Posted by: Jeff Hendrix | 04/25/2011 at 01:56 AM