Hillary Clinton might kill to get this photo back

One of the nice little things about not running for president -- besides not having at least half the population hate your guts and others around the world set your likeness on fire for eager TV cameras -- is that if someone in your family takes an unflattering photograph of you, chances are you can have it destroyed or deleted.

Not so the candidates for president from any party. They have, by their burning ambition to live in the White House, forsaken the slimmest hope of privacy. They can't pick their ears -- or nose, they can't scratch themselves, they can't take a mouthful of food, they can't slip on the sidewalk, they can't make any facial expression that isn't captured by someone peeking into their life with a camera, a video or a cellphone.

It's not fair. It's truly an inhuman, pathetic way to live. On the other hand, nobody made them run for election. Some of them love the attention. Some of them put up with it.

It's also pretty funny for the rest of us sitting here as voyeurs passing comfortable judgment on these strangers, one of whom will be in our lives night and day for years to come. Not to mention profoundly affecting the course of our life as a nation.

Some very creative web producer at Channel 2 WBBM-TV in Chicago has pulled together 26 of the least flattering photographs of presidential candidates from recent months.

It's a hoot!

You don't want to miss these. And return to the site again and again if you ever sense the slightest temptation to run for president.

--Andrew Malcolm

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Photos: EPA / Associated Press

Comments

[John Bard]

Re the photo of Hillary - that's how I always see her anyway!

[Nate]

How many Ron Paul supporters are going to post here complaining that the website only included one photo of Paul in its slideshow? I'm anxiously awaiting their 200+ posts on the issue.

[Jacks Son]

Hillary is a pathetic figure with a clown for a husband. It seems that she is going through the motions, trying to convince her shrinking followers that she is the most viable candidate to be president of the most powerful nation on gods green earth.

Her main drawbacks are she is not the most viable candidate- Obomma is and Bill is load stone around her neck & is pulling her down.The political wall she has come into contact with is known as the Kennedy machine.So to summasrize: her chances to become our next president is nill and consatantly deteriorating .I understand the odds of her success in Los Vegas are also deteriorating.

I am looking foward to the intellectrual debates between Oboma and Senator Mc Cain an not seeing any more traces of the Clintons'.

[Jack's Son]

Hillary is a pathetic figure with a clown for a husband. It seems that she is going through the motions, trying to convince her shrinking followers that she is the most viable candidate to be president of the most powerful nation on gods green earth.

Her main drawbacks are she is not the most viable candidate- Obomma is and Bill is load stone around her neck & is pulling her down.The political wall she has come into contact with is known as the Kennedy machine.So to summasrize: her chances to become our next president is nill and consatantly deteriorating .I understand the odds of her success in Los Vegas are also deteriorating.

I am looking foward to the intellectrual debates between Oboma and Senator Mc Cain an not seeing any more traces of the Clintons'.

[Jay]

Some of the photos of Hillary are downright evil looking

[chris cameron]

The photos of those two old guys in the right margin on the opposite side of the page are pretty hilarious, too.

[Repo]

Whoa baby, check out HIllary's pic. We know that ain't Bill making her eyes pop-out with pleasure. He's too busy taking care of business with his many Monicas. Good googly woogly...that is an ugly picture to an already unattractive woman. Just like her campaign, it is getting really bad. Poor thing!

[Armyvet]

I can't stand to listen to Hillary, so I love the gasping open mouth photo. As far as this campaign is concerned, my attitude is ABC = Anybody But Clinton!

[Repo]

Shame on Mr. Malcom, you are having the best laughs moderating these comments and then NOT publishing them. You knew what you were in for when you exposed Hillary's darling picture, knowing her husband's past. So tell me Mr. Malcom, why did you print this tid-bit of info? You sly devil !

[Jo Mac]

Hillary Clinton is gorgeous even in this picture, and her husband is awesome. I haven't joined the preposterous Obama "wave," however I have joined the growing wave of realists who are wondering how in the world he ever got this far. GO HILLARY! A candidate you can count on.

[Brian]

Do some research on the Clintons before you start yelling Hillary for President. Google "The Clinton Chronicles." You probably won't be yelling Hillary anymore. You people might also want to find out about the American monetary policy as well. As Henry Ford Said, “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” So Nate, one of the posters above, you might want to do some research on your country before you start talking about wanting to see Ron Paul fans. Or maybe you should just keep voting for the rich candidates along with everyone else, the rich candidates seem to care about the poor. As mike Gravel said, "Follow the Money, you want to know who is running your country, follow the money."

[Jeugenen]

OBAMA TOO FOR GOD AND CONSTITUTION

The loyalties of the finest Ronald Reagan Conservatives are not for sale to Neo-Cons/Neo-Libs at any price. It is far better to be defeated now by a John Kennedy Liberal, Obama, than to be defeated by the Podhoretz Neo-Cons supporting McCain, who have corrupted the Republican Party; and Obama's defeat of Hillary will be a Republican victory over the Leiberman Neo-Libs, who have so thoroughly corrupted the Democratic Party.

In subsequent elections, more Neo-Cons can be defeated and expelled to restore the integrity of the Republican Party. Then, with both the Democrat and Republican parties finally restored to their traditional liberal and conservative social and economic foundations, the ideologically subversive Neo-Libs/Neo-Cons shall have the choice of either conforming, or again pursuing their fifty year old dream of creating an ideologically subversive Neo-Marxist Party.

The Ron Paul Libertarians are not fighting solely to elect Ron Paul; they are fighting in the Cultural War to restore the traditional cultural allegiance to God and Constitution. Ron Paul is joined by younger leaders who shall heroically carry on the American Reformation, by any Constitutional means necessary, until the Neo-Cons/Neo-Libs have been democratically defeated in the government, the universities, and the news media.

[AAAAANDRE]

Here ya go...

Only two Ron Paul photos?
Oh yeah, we've already seen all the other unflattering photos, they've been used ad nauseum with the "many" unflattering articles written about him.

[bodo]

What is unflattering about Hillary's picture? This is the most lifelike photo I have seen -- all big mouth!

[salderdice]

She’s certainly competitive now. Rather than deride Mr. Obama’s “eloquence,” she mockingly says, “I could give this big ol’ speech, but how’s it gonna change your life?” (Cheers.) After taking her audiences on a tour through the rings of economic hell in America, she offers policy prescriptions and then asks in a repetitive chant: “Who would you hire” to fix them?
http://prohillary.wordpress.com/