I have something to get off my chest about appearances -

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17. As in the picture of Barabara Bush, white women where them to detract from their neck.

I would suspect that Bush's pearl are real since she's been wearing them for decades, but they make great costume jewelry these days that can cost you a few. To imply that you can tell real from fake on TV and then question someone's character based on what you think you see is ridiculous. And so what if it is real, it's not like she's dripping in fancy diamonds and pearls or something.

Quite the contrary. I've seen her dozens of times on TV over the past month, and most of the time she had on the same gold chain with what looked like little charms hanging from it. I thought it did nothing for her or her outfit. My thought was "she needs to stop wearing that tired looking chain, because I can't focus on what she's saying because that chain is a distraction". I also thought about the fact that she was campaigning there probably wasn't someone there when she's getting dressed in the morning to latch or unlatch her chain which is why she's wearing the same thing. You can shower in gold chains and wear them day after day if you don't have someone handing to unhook it for you, particularly at my age.