Love at First Sight?

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tanstaafl2 · #26 Post by **tanstaafl2** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:26 am

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:
tanstaafl2 wrote:

Whether or not you love him or hate him the thing that stands out most about this photo to me is how much this job appears to have aged him, as it does with almost anyone who takes it.

Don't really have a good photo from 2000 for comparison but as I recall he looked younger than his age. Now to me he looks much older than his age (He will be 62 this year).

Makes me wonder why anyone would want to do it. I know I wouldn't.
I noticed this picture and made a nasty comment about botox, which Emma told me not to post because our house was going to get bombed, so she started hiding under the desk and I deleted the comment, sorry Ed.

If you look at the picture and compare it to the girl bunny picture, he doesn't look as bad. I might cynically say that he was trying to look more serious with the serious bunny, but could be relaxed with the girl bunny.

He's wearing the same outfit in both pictures, so I believe they were taken at the same time.

Yes, no doubt they were taken around the same time. I think the close up is a bit more candid and as such looks more as he probably looks. But that is purely a guess on my part. In any case I think the job clearly wears on a person, especially a two term president as also evidenced by Clinton.

The photo of Bush on the plane from 2000 seems to me to further illustrate the difference.

In any case it just struck me. Perhaps the photo doesn't accurately reflect how he looks and the picture with the girl bunny is more representative.

TheConfessor · #27 Post by **TheConfessor** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:05 pm

I'd be more surprised to find photos of anyone who looks the same eight (or sixteen) years later. People get older (unless they die). That's why they call it aging.

tanstaafl2 · #28 Post by **tanstaafl2** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:16 pm

TheConfessor wrote:I'd be more surprised to find photos of anyone who looks the same eight (or sixteen) years later. People get older (unless they die). That's why they call it aging.

Yes, I certainly recognize that. But to me he looks like he has aged more than I would have expected. He looks more like my father who will be 74 this year (and has been a lifelong smoker to boot) at least in that one picture. And yet when he started he looked younger than his actual age of 54 or so. At least to me.

Clinton did the same, appearing to me at least to age more than might be expected over the period of 8 years in their 50's for someone of relative privilege. Unless there were some exacerbating factor I would not expect him to be appear this much older.

The exacerbating factor is the obviously most likely to be the stress of the job (no matter what some might think of his level of "involvement" in the job).

No doubt it is in the eye of the beholder to a large degree.

cindy.wellman · #29 Post by **cindy.wellman** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:36 pm

tanstaafl2 wrote:

Whether or not you love him or hate him the thing that stands out most about this photo to me is how much this job appears to have aged him, as it does with almost anyone who takes it.

Don't really have a good photo from 2000 for comparison but as I recall he looked younger than his age. Now to me he looks much older than his age (He will be 62 this year).

Makes me wonder why anyone would want to do it. I know I wouldn't.

I think he really resembles his mother.

VAdame · #30 Post by **VAdame** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:05 pm

Our niece Roey saw Dubya in November when he addressed her Army Basic Training class at Fort Jackson:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases ... 102-7.html

She said the main thing she noticed was how much older he looks in real life. I believe her actual words were "He's a dried up little old man!"