First Impressions: The Faces of Evil

[diamondsndust]

Have you ever just looked at someone and shuddered with the thought of "he looks evil"?? That was my first impression of Tom Delay. I hardly ever watch TV, and when I do, the news isn't on my list of things to watch. One day the TV was on, with the volume turned down, and I just happened to glance over and see a picture of this mans face on the screen. My first thought was "thats an evil man right there". No sound, didn't know who he was, for all I knew he could have just saved a burning building full of people or won the Nobel Peace Prize. I turned the volume up... they were talking about Tom Delay. Here are a few more first impressions with a few of my comments about them:

Dick Cheney: - Evil & Determined - Watching his debate with John Edwards gave a lot of insight to his personality. This man truly believes in what he is doing and enjoys doing it. He doesn't care if it is right or wrong, as long as it benefits him and his allies.

Karl Rove: - Evil - No reason, just the 1st impression of a photo.

Poppy Bush: - Evil & Cunning - This man sure proved me right. Then again, this should have been a no-brainer because of his ties with the CIA.

Herr Chimporer: - Dumber than a brick - This has proven itself to be true also, as we all know by now. This man is just to plain dumb to be evil. He really believes they would let him stay in power if the Repugs were to achieve their goal of a One Party System with a Permanent Ruler. Thats what they are striving for. I wonder how far Karl Rove has to stick his arm up Shrubya's rear to make his lips move when he talks??

Ronald Reagan: - What a CLOWN!! - That was my first impression. He looked like Bozo without the makeup and sounded like a bad John Wayne impersonator.

Bill Clinton: - Very Personable - Little did we know just how "personable" he could be! LOL Bill proved to be very connected with the "common man" and knew how to reach out to them (us!). He was just a bad husband, not a bad President. The economy flourished after he got done undoing 12 years of Reagan/Bush VooDoo Economics.

Al Gore: - Stick in the mud - Wasn't impressed much, too stiff and boring. And Al??? DO NOT mess with my right to own and keep a firearm! (special note from me) Anyone who doesn't like the NRA and their politics should check out http://www.huntersandshooters.com

John Kerry: - Intelligent - He just looked smart! A brilliant and very eloquently spoken man. John Kerry can lead American to a brighter future.

John Edwards: - Good ol' boy - Not meant in a bad way. John Edwards was well spoken also and he had an appeal to the younger crowd. I think he also had a good connection with the "common man".

Ok.. these were just some of my own personal views that I wanted to share. What were some of your first impressions??

[Lars39]

1. I've heard you get the face you've earned by the time you're thirty.

I guess some people "improve" with time.
The face that really kinda shocked me was Scooter Libby.
He still looks like a debauched Roman senator to me.

[amitten]

4. That's 'cause he's a perv.

Scooter has a perv face.

[unblock]

5. bwahaha!! debauched roman senator!

:rofl:

so true, so true!

check out jack gilford, from "a funny thing happened on the way to the forum":

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0318527/

[diamondsndust]

7. LMAO!! Good one!

I love that description! debauched Roman Senator... too funny!

[blossomstar]

2. Exactly my impressions! Thank you for this post

Now I know I am not "crazy".... these evil guys Bush, Delay, Rove, etc... made the hair on my neck and arms stand up when I first saw them... spooky. I KNEW they were evil! Why didn't others?

[diamondsndust]

8. Thank you also! ....

Now I know I'm not the only one either!

[Doctor_J]

3. What anti-gun measures was Gore pushing?

this sounds like NRA/hate radio propaganda.

[diamondsndust]

10. Part of his running platform included..

amending the 2nd Amendment Rights to restrict gun ownership and ban assault weapons. Some may feel that assault weapons are unnecessary, but I think it is our God given right to be able to purchase an AK-47 or an M-16 or StreetSweeper if we damn well please. If the criminals have more firepower than the cops, give the cops better weapons, dont take mine away! By the way, thats a whole other issue.. I think our police officers, military personel, teachers, firemen & nurses should be making way much more money than they make. It's a shame that grown men get paid millions per year to play ball, and our kids look up to them as heroes, when the REAL HEROES are patroling our streets, teaching our children, keeping our country safe and taking care of our sick. These are the people I want my kids looking up to.

[unblock]

6. i take issue with the "too dumb to be evil" concept

this goes part and parcel with the anti-intellectualism that makes people not trust the kerrys of the world and trust the dumbyas of the world.

i will grant you that there are subtle grey areas of ethics that some dumb people can't navigate, but certainly, there's no subtle grey area when it comes to shrub, or the vast bulk of modern politics. shrub is EVIL, and he damn well knows it.

he's every bit as evil as the people in power in nazi germany, and for the exact same reasons: because they all consider a vast swath of people to be irrelevant to their moral thinking. the nazis thought that if they did right by the rich ayrans, that was all that mattered, and whatever they did to the jews, gays, etc., simply didn't enter into the equation, except to the extent that it affected the rich aryans. shrub thinks the same way. whatever happens to the poor, the democrats, the blue-staters, etc., doesn't matter, as long as he's doing right by his rich banana republican cronies. he just hasn't got to the stage where murdering millions of us subhumans has been advantageous to them.

and if you've ever watched shows like 'cops', you know there are plenty of stupid AND evil people out there.

[diamondsndust]

11. while you make a valid point...

I just don't think the shrub is that intelligent. He just goes along with whatever his daddy, Rove & Cheney tell him. Poppy Bush is the real puppetmaster behind this charade, he is the one pulling the strings. Can you just imagine the look on the faces of Rove, Cheney & Poppy when lil' shrubya blurted out "I'm gonna get Saddam cuz he tried to kill my daddy"!
Rove must have smacked his forehead and yelled "who let him speak without a script again?? who told him to say that??"
This is something they told Little Georgie when he asked, with the innocence of a 5 year old, "why are we gonna get him again"?? He is just blindly following orders handed down to him from the puppet masters. Think about it... they all knew how dumb he was and they all knew that the fix was in to steal the election so they could use him as a puppet. If they wanted a smart one, they would have gone with Jeb or someone else. Little Georgie just fit their plan with his natural stupidity.

[unblock]

17. i agree that he's dumb, but he's not THAT dumb

i think he knows full well that what he's doing is lying and conning the american people into thinking that what is bad for them is somehow good for them. i think he and his buddies have some good laughs at our collective expense over this point.

[gulliver]

9. Karl Rove is a hacker.

He finds security flaws in the national psyche and exploits them. He is a cross between the evil hacker from "Jurassic Park" and the little demented Nazi who burns his hand on the medallion in "Raiders of the Lost Ark."

John Kerry is not all that intelligent, IMO. He doesn't see the game well, but he plays the part that he sees well.

[diamondsndust]

12. Thats an insult to hackers, Rove is a douchebag...

hacker

n.
1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable
systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most
users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary.
2. One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys
programming rather than just theorizing about programming.
3. A person capable of appreciating hack value. 4. A person who is
good at programming quickly.
5. An expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does work using it or on it; as in `a Unix hacker'. (Definitions 1 through 5 are correlated, and people who fit them congregate.)
6. An expert or enthusiast of any kind. One
might be an astronomy hacker, for example.
7. One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations.
8. A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive information by poking around. Hence `password hacker', `network hacker'. The correct term for this sense is cracker.

[gulliver]

13. You're right.

But "hacker" is the popular term for what really is a "cracker." It's probably too late to save the term "hacker."

[diamondsndust]

14. you're right too... touche' ... n/t

[karynnj]

15. The John Kerry I've seen in CSPAN

or web broadcasts of Senate committee's is extremely intelligent. He is brillant in the Small business, the Finance, commerce and (of course) SRFC hearings - I never watched many of them until after the election. What is clear is that in all of these committee's Senators who are after him start many sentences with "Senator Kerry said ...". He is one of the few Senators who NEVER seems unprepared or simply covering what was said by others. His reputation of being a serious, intelligent Senator has been there for decades - and was likely gained in the beginning in spite of the fact that in the 80s he could easilly have been seen as an extremely dashing, handsome, charming star Senator.

I think by game, you are talking politics - not governing or seeing the big picture in terms of the world. While Kerry did win MA elections without any real mentors (a real feat) he is better as a statesman than a politician. I don't think he was "playing a part".

[gulliver]

18. I don't disagree.

I was talking about Kerry as a politician. I don't think he understood or played the political game well. And when I say he "plays the part" (part as in portion, not acting role) of the game he sees, what I mean is that he seemed to execute fairly well -- witness the debates in which he trounced the incumbent microbe. He just couldn't find a strategy. He got in trouble early on. Then got out, through no effort of his own (Dean imploded with the help of the media). I'm sure Kerry calculated the effect of a lot of bold moves, and thought he could get by without them or didn't know how to execute them. I dunno. Coulda...shoulda...woulda there. Maybe Kerry is fairly intelligent. I just never found him to be brilliant as in the previous JFK or Clinton.

[karynnj]

20. I would take Kerry over Clinton as President any day

Clinton was a master politician but he doesn't seem to have strong core values, which Kerry does. Also, I think that Kerry can be far more eloquent, maybe because he does speak from his heart. Clinton is a very charismatic speaker, but I can't think of a single memorable line from any speech from his 8 years as President.

I really think that had Kerry won, it would have been a very difficult time to be President, but Kerry and Teresa would have been what we needed.

[gulliver]

21. I would also take Kerry over Clinton

I think Clinton would have won the election, though. The one memorable (good) thing I can remember him saying was his principle that people who play by the rules and work full time should not live in poverty. Other than that, the thing I liked most about him, frankly, was that things were going so well in the country, I didn't need to care about what he said. I paid very little attention to politics when Clinton was in office, but he wasn't running around setting fires like Junior.

I canvassed for Kerry, donated to him, worked on election day, and voted for him. I wish he were president.

[KayLaw]

16. How about Tim Russert?

I noticed just this morning how diabolical he looks.

[diamondsndust]

19. yeah, he looks kinda evil...

Then again, he looks like he is straining to take a big freeper, or maybe kinda like Ned Beatty in Deliverance... SQUEAL LIKE A PIG, BOY!! OINKKKKKKKKKKKKK OINKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK