A Profile MADE for a Presidential Coin

[SaveAmerica]

[DemBones DemBones]

1. Very patrician. nt

[SaveAmerica]

5. I know, I saw it on a stand at the store and it stopped me in my tracks

[ThatsMyBarack]

2. Ooh, classy!

I like! :thumbsup:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

3. He's still Al Gorgeous to me!! Inside and out!!

Gore/Clark '08 is my DREAM ticket.

[SaveAmerica]

6. I like Gore/Edwards, I don't care what they say about 2 southerners

It would right 2 wrongs in my eyes and imagine what their passion for people would do for the US and the world.

[Clark2008]

12. Uh... Gore/Clark WOULD be two Southerners.

In fact, it would be Tennessee/Arkansas instead of Arkansas/Tennessee.

[SaveAmerica]

14. I know, my comment is a reflection of when Gore was cruising for a

date to the presidential ball and Edwards was pooh-poohed as being (among other things) a southerner, too.

[SaveAmerica]

4. Just wanted to add: RUN AL, RUN!!

[libodem]

7. if i had been a Green Party voter

in 2000, I would shoot myself, if I had voted for Nader. Look how far the world is behind because, Nader, wouldn't mind his own business, and worry about car safety. What a putz. When I think of all lost ground. Nader take all that green Republican money and stuff yourself with it. And, yes, our guy, Al, makes a profile worth striking a coin for.

[oldtime dfl_er]

8. I've often thought so too.

And I also think it's a face that would look GREAT on Mount Rushmore.

http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/658010

[noamnety]

9. I'm cautious of the looks thing

there's something very creepy to me about the thought of where our ideals of beauty/handsomeness come from - so often it's related to race, and to gendered notions of power.

[SaveAmerica]

13. I just think he belongs on a coin as our president...

He's got his faults, in his looks and the way he is, and the first time I saw this my mind went right to George Washington, who also wasn't perfect but was passionate about doing what was right. I wonder if they chose this pose exactly for this kind of tease?

[noamnety]

15. It's just so .... white male

which is I guess why a person might associate it with the history of our nation.

I am just very aware that if he were a woman of color, nobody would even think to say "ohhh, that face belongs on a presidential coin."

I just have an uncomfortable reaction to the thought process as a whole, knowing the history of why our country has been led by white males, always. Saying he looks just like the previous ones have looked, I'm not so sure that's a good thing. I don't know if a lack of diversity is something we should be impressed by.

Not that it's a strike AGAINST him, I'm not saying that, but I'm not happy about it being a mark FOR him.

[SaveAmerica]

18. Maybe in 200 years Nancy Pelosi will be the standard that our

future gens look for on Presidential Coins? Or Barack?

[Lars39]

10. character and intelligence radiates from his face.

[roguevalley]

11. reminds me of the late roman empire, the sort of busts they would

make of the great orators.

[roamer65]

16. You're looking at the president that we will re-elect in 2008.

Nice cover.

[deadmessengers]

17. Is it me, or does it look like he's losing weight?

Not that it would mean anything if he did...