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January 06, 2004

Bradley Endorses Mini-Me

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I know Bradley is tall but...

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Wanna chuckle? Howard Dean lists his height as:

5'-8 3/4"

thereby becoming the first candidate in recent memory to measure his in quarter inches.

What's up with that?

Posted by Ara Rubyan on January 06, 2004 at 1:46 PM


Heh. He doesn't have his sleeves rolled up in that picture. I guess that means he's no longer "fighting for the little guy". Bastard. He better roll his sleeves up again before election day (or nomination day).

Posted by dowingba on January 06, 2004 at 2:07 PM


Oh my God! Dean is short! This proves what a poisonous demagogue he truly is.

Is this the best you've got, Rosemary?

Posted by Adam on January 06, 2004 at 2:17 PM


Read an interesting piece the other day (forget who wrote it) -- made a connection between Howard Dean and George Wallace. Hmm.

I know Dean Esmay likes to refer to Howard Dean as the Dems' Pat Buchanan. But Wallace might be a more apt example although HD is about as much a cultural opposite of Wallace as you'll find.

Food for thought.

Posted by Ara Rubyan on January 06, 2004 at 2:28 PM


Is this the best you've got, Rosemary?

Yeah it is. I suppose I could have painted a little Hitler moustache on him but I wouldn't want anyone to think I was a liberal.

Posted by Rosemary the Queen of All Evil on January 06, 2004 at 2:35 PM


You misunderstand, Rosemary. The Leftists are comparing Bush to Charlie Chaplin, not Hitler.

Posted by dowingba on January 06, 2004 at 2:57 PM


Nice of him to say 5 feet, 8 and 3/4 inches since if that's correct he has every right to say five-nine

Posted by maor on January 06, 2004 at 3:27 PM


Bush is taller. Bush wins.

Posted by Hei Lun Chan on January 06, 2004 at 3:41 PM


To give Dean a little credit (Something I thought I would never do) Bradley is 6'5".
Makes me wonder though, the only people I have known to use fractional increments in their height are those with little man syndrome, maybe thats where all the anger has come from. It has nothing to do with Bush or the War, he just wants to be noticed.
Search his locker for gravity boots.
Maybe Bush should roll out those Napoleon ads now?

Posted by James Doney on January 06, 2004 at 3:43 PM


Paraphrasing Dean Esmay:

I was going to vote for Howard Dean until I saw this picture. Now I know I can't, because he's short. Just don't cotton to those short people.

Posted by Adam on January 06, 2004 at 3:58 PM


There's a website I saw a couple months ago about some huge guy who wanted to get pictures of all of the Democratic candidates pictures standing next to him-in the shade. And then post them on the web.

Heh. Too silly, but amusing.

And Adam, you are protesting an awful lot. Are you a short person, too?

-evil grin

Tadeusz

Posted by Tadeusz on January 06, 2004 at 4:18 PM


Hm, if he used the metric system, he could make himself SEEM taller using centimeters...AND it would be a very Liberal thing to do to use a measuring system devised in France

Director Mitch
5' 9 1/2"

Posted by Director Mitch on January 06, 2004 at 5:06 PM


Seems to me, last time around the guy Bradley thought should get the nomination, didn't...

Posted by McGehee on January 06, 2004 at 6:25 PM


Damn. I never knew Rosemary (AKA "The Queen of All Evil") was a sizeist...

I'm crushed. Really.


P.S. Dukakis was a midget, too. Now all we have to do is stuff Dean into a tank and snap a photo. Muhehehe...

Posted by Casey Tompkins on January 06, 2004 at 7:32 PM


Wow. And all Bush can lay claim to is that he's a dry drunk with a questionable history of cocaine use. Good thing he's tall.

Short men are sexy. Don't get it? More for us.

Posted by John Kusch on January 06, 2004 at 9:52 PM


John:

I heard that Bush has big hands too...

Posted by Rosemary the Queen of All Evil on January 06, 2004 at 11:52 PM


...or was it ears?

Posted by Rosemary the Queen of All Evil on January 06, 2004 at 11:53 PM


But the Russians have known for years that smaller people make better tankers (Make the tanks with lower silohuettes, and they are harder to hit). Jackie Stewart (possibly the greatest racecar driver of all time) Short man, small man, less space and weight taken up in the race cars he drove for the room he needed to occupy in them. Won a TALL pile of money though. Seriously, with the size of athletes today (Football and Basketball) don't we all have "short man" syndrome? I know I've been pretty pissed ever since I accepted the fact the I'd never be the starting middle Linebacker for the Oakland Raiders(Just Win Baby). But, do we really need to go here to decide who to elect?

Let's just say I enjoyed the Photo, it had a nice LOTR quality to it... hmmmmm Howard Dean-evil hobbit... maybe I should Call the GOP and give them that one.

Later.

Posted by Sleel on January 07, 2004 at 12:27 AM


But the Russians have known for years that smaller people make better tankers (Make the tanks with lower silohuettes, and they are harder to hit). Jackie Stewart (possibly the greatest racecar driver of all time) Short man, small man, less space and weight taken up in the race cars he drove for the room he needed to occupy in them. Won a TALL pile of money though. Seriously, with the size of athletes today (Football and Basketball) don't we all have "short man" syndrome? I know I've been pretty pissed ever since I accepted the fact the I'd never be the starting middle Linebacker for the Oakland Raiders(Just Win Baby). But, do we really need to go here to decide who to elect?

Let's just say I enjoyed the Photo, it had a nice LOTR quality to it... hmmmmm Howard Dean-evil hobbit... maybe I should Call the GOP and give them that one.

Later.

Posted by Sleel on January 07, 2004 at 12:27 AM


Height? Who cares about height? The fact that it's Bradley endorsing him should be making folks run screaming....

Posted by Susie on January 07, 2004 at 11:25 AM


I'm a short little guy. I've come to face the fact that most women tend to be attracted to tall men. I don't resent it. It's a fact. Just as I prefer beautiful women (as I perceive beauty).
"Inequality is the first law in the Book of Man*." -Ralph Adams Cram, architect
The only equality is the right to _pursue_ happiness. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Posted by Steven Malcolm Anderson the selfish aesthete on January 07, 2004 at 11:58 AM


Height is just about the finest predictor of elections you know. The taller candidate has won 10 of the last 13 elections, and Gore did win the popular vote. Even more telling, the taller candidate won in 23 of 31 Senate races last time out.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36966-2003Dec28.html

Dukakis, the shortest nominee in living memory and eternal butt of comedian short jokes by and by, was 5'8"

http://www.all-encompassingly.com/archives/Dukakis_tank.jpg

People just have a more favorable opinion of tall candidates in presidential debates. Whomever told you life was fair, by and by, sold you a sack of it. But just because it ain't fair doesn't make it any less real.

Posted by Alex on January 10, 2004 at 2:31 AM


 



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