44 Shades of Gray

[Puzzledtraveller]

Whatever your feelings are about President Barack Obama you cannot deny the toll of holding the most powerful office in world and the most demanding job in the world has on an individual. This is never more evident than the steady fade to gray of once vibrant and colorful hair as it yields to the stress and demands of a vocation beyond most of our understanding and experience.

At the very least, on a human level, the man that is Barack Obama, 44th President of The United States deserves our respect, sympathy and appreciation.

[BlueJazz]

1. If I would have had to deal with the "I.Q. of a towel" Republicans for the past 7 years,..

..I'd be at the Fairy, Daisy Bunnee-Wunnee Insane Facility.

[Puzzledtraveller]

2. So true

If I were him, at this point I would be showing up in flip flops a bath robe and eating Krispy Kremes.

[3catwoman3]

6. At least my towel...

...is smart enough to serve the useful purpose of drying me after a shower.

[MohRokTah]

3. A lot of it has to do with the fact that the pic on the left was taken in 2008...

and the pic on the right was taken recently.

A man's appearance ages a lot from age 48 to age 54.

[onehandle]

4. 'President'n is hard work'

I'm near the top of that range and have almost no gray hair.

[MohRokTah]

7. I'm 51 and am more gray than the president. eom

[onehandle]

8. My best friend is our age and is probably 60% gray.

Oh DNA. You are so random...

[hedgehog]

5. I would tend to agree with that appraisal -

and take note that the amount of gray can vary widely from person to person. FWIW, my husband's hair is still pretty blond, and he has more of it than either of our sons.

[Puzzledtraveller]

9. I was thinking about my own hair

I'm 41 and have gray creeping in but mostly in my beard. I then thought how that might be accelerated by stress as some of mine is and then I thought about the president and if his life is full of stress how that just may show up in his graying hair. That allowed me to see him in basic human terms and appreciate what he goes through daily.

[RiffRandell]

10. So much better than 50. nt