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By Capt. Fogg

Remember when they raised holy hell about Bill Clinton's $200 haircut? Then there was Edwards' $400 'do and all the snide jokes about how that made any concern for working people moot. Then of course, came Mitt Romney with his $2,000 hair.

This stuff matters. Nixon's loss to Kennedy was in part attributed to his 5 O'clock shadow and greenish complexion. Reagan wouldn't go on camera without makeup, whether it was the movie camera or the news camera. But any question as to extravagant concerns with looking good have to take into account John McCain's $5,500 face.

Hey, he's 72 and has facial scars and his fishbelly white skin is the result of avoiding the sun as assiduously as Count Dracula because of his history of melanoma. He's got a lot to cover up and I'm not just talking about his past statements and his past associations.

Don't get me wrong -- it's his face and his money -- and with a hundred-million-dollar wife who gets the tax breaks that hundred-million-dollar folks do, it's chump change. If there's any significance in any of this, it's only to point out the hilarity of the "elitist Obama" charade. Crew-cut Barack strikes me as more of the neighborhood barber shop kind of guy -- and of course he has far less to hide.

(Cross-posted from The Swash Zone.)