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Sunday, August 19, 2007

The Underdogs

posted by on August 19 at 11:00 AM

During the debate, the ABC cameras cut to Kucinich’s wife at least three times. It seemed that whenever Kucinich spoke, someone in the ABC control room was thrilling at the opportunity to put his pretty partner on TV. (No other wives of candidates got air time, as far as I saw.) Kucinich knows his wife draws a lot of looks, which is no doubt one reason why he brought her with him to the spin room.

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Clinton, Edwards, and Obama all send surrogates out to spin for them. People like Kucinich, Biden, Richardson, Dodd, and Gravel show up in person (with hot wife in tow if possible), hoping to snag some camera time.

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Even if they’re not polling very high, most of these candidates like to cultivate an aura of importance in the spin room, cutting journalists off with a firm “thank you,” as if they are extremely pressed for time and need to move on to the next reporter. (Often true.) Except for Gravel. That guy won’t let a reporter or camera go. I made the mistake of walking up to him and asking what he hoped to accomplish, given his 0-percent support in the recent ABC News poll in Iowa. A very long while later, I found myself issuing a firm “thank you” to Mr. Gravel.

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1

May-December romance for Biden, eh?

Posted by bma | August 19, 2007 11:23 AM
2

lolz.

Posted by John | August 19, 2007 12:51 PM
3

Does Dennis Kucinich have like a ten inch dick or something? I can't imagine how that little troll got a wife like that.

Posted by Gitai | August 19, 2007 3:03 PM
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You couldn't escape from Gravel? Did you try putting a camera in front of him and seeing if he just froze in front of it for 8 minutes?

Posted by Chris in Tampa | August 19, 2007 3:29 PM
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re: dennis kucinich

yes, famous in clevland

and apparently is a lover of good sex

Posted by Freddy | August 19, 2007 3:33 PM
6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Forbes-kucinich.jpg#file

This is a 1978 photo of Dennis, Cleveland's boy mayor when he was 31 - George Forbes (at left) was council president. Many of us were pretty when we were 31, but most of us weren't big city mayors.

Posted by KENTUCKY KERNEL OF TRUTH | August 19, 2007 4:16 PM
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@3: Maybe she just likes progressive peace-mongers, man.

Posted by hey | August 19, 2007 4:35 PM
8

Plus, he's not a "little troll". He's a Congressman and one of the few who is nationally recognized (for something besides a scandal, that is.)

Posted by hey | August 19, 2007 4:39 PM
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Oh come on, hey, Denny's a fucking humunculus. Maybe he'd make a great leader of the free world, but I can't believe any woman looks at that photo posted by Eli and goes "ummmmmm, beefcake."

Posted by Big Sven | August 19, 2007 5:12 PM
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Anyone else tired of old dudes marrying (or even just sleeping with) super young women? Denny's 60, his wife Elizabeth's 30. It's not an impeachable offense, I just get tired of it and kinda think less of the person that does it. Even if there's very smart and pretty cool like Denny.

Posted by Big Sven | August 19, 2007 5:16 PM
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"they're very smart" etc etc...

Posted by Big Sven | August 19, 2007 5:17 PM
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Well, I assume most people don't choose to marry people on looks alone. If they did, then there would be a lot more single people out there.

Anyway, that reminds me of this exchange from Annie Hall:

[Alvy addresses a pair of strangers on the street]
Alvy Singer: Here, you look like a very happy couple, um, are you?
Female street stranger: Yeah.
Alvy Singer: Yeah? So, so, how do you account for it?
Female street stranger: Uh, I'm very shallow and empty and I have no ideas and nothing interesting to say.
Male street stranger: And I'm exactly the same way.
Alvy Singer: I see. Wow. That's very interesting. So you've managed to work out something?

Posted by well | August 19, 2007 8:29 PM
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lots po okder dudes, ypunger wives this time around. Also lots of wives who are not just into baking cookies.
Fred Thompson's wife is a looker, so is Rudy's sort of, and the former is younget than one of Thompson's kids.

As far as Rudy's wife, don't know her age but this seems to be one reason his kids are estranged from him (ie that his current wife hit on Rudy while at "Club Macudo" in NYC, while he was still married with his then wife right there in the mayoral mansion in NYC).

So this time around I would suspect Hillary would not get shit for being involvd in a soap opera marriage....nor for not wanting to bake cookies. These dudes running for pres today are the norm....serial monogamous womanizers who use their growing power and status to score a more "hot" looking woman.

Hmpf.

Meanwhile, St. Hillary has never had any allegation of infidelity.

Bill is just a hound dog.

Out of these three options, which do you prefer in your president?

Posted by unPC | August 19, 2007 11:01 PM
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@10 - How could one be "tired" of something that has absolutely no impact on one's life? Like gay marriage or I-5 traffic or the price of Prada shoes or medical dope smokers? I'm sure his wife Elizabeth will appreciate your thoughtful and sage opinion about her choice in men. Isn't a humunculus a small misshapen dead body stuffed into a lab jar? Wow - that's worse that jabbing Hillary for her fat ankles!

Posted by KENTUCKY KERNEL OF TRUTH | August 19, 2007 11:26 PM
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Ummm, I think I agree with unPC? Kucinich may be the "progressive" candidate, but he doesn't appear very progressive on women's issues. I can't believe how many feminists like either Kucinich (with the dependent 30-year old wife) or Edwards (the evangelical who believes in traditional marriage) over Clinton (an actual independent woman!).

Also, is being bony thin all it takes to be considered hot these days?

Posted by jamier | August 19, 2007 11:28 PM
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JAMIER - YOU ARE SUCH A SNOT

The woman has a very elegant and beautiful face - would not matter her body type, thin, or a bit heavier --- SHE IS FLAT OUT FUCKING PRETTY.

Shove your envy and antique out of the haystack moral judgements

There was a 28 year difference between my mom and dad and they had a perfect marriage - so what is you theory when working class folks fall in love and marry - with a major age difference. Do you self righteously sniff when you pass them on the sidewalk?

Posted by Essex | August 19, 2007 11:43 PM
17

Simple -

My guess is that both Jamier and unPC have NO love life, are not emotive and loving in most situations and cast a lot of cynical crap about others lives .. lacking one of their own.

Some advice for both - Find love when and where you can, fuck you brains out often with a hot partner ... neither age nor body type matters ... God, how radical in the modern world.

Posted by Angel | August 19, 2007 11:49 PM
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#3 - ten incher ?

she thinks so - all that matters

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