by Steve Young
There’s been little question that John McCain has been winning the diminishing mane coverup contest with Barack Obama. McCain’s attempts to arrange purposely overgrown strands from distant segments of the scalp over the badly balding crown may seem a sign of a lack of self-esteem.While some youngsters who have yet to see their curl-less destiny think of the effort as a covering the obvious with the more obvious, in reality, it is seen by the majority of men sharing the problem and the baby-boomer women who have learned to accept it, as a sign of maturity. And maturity that includes knowing how to please the electorate, though perhaps not for as long as they used to.
Clearly, Obama’s full head of hair, though closely cropped, sends off crippling messages of inexperience.
With the addition of Joe Biden’s foreign policy experience, comes a combover that screams years of hair-pulling experience and wisdom. And with Mitt Romney’s overgrown mop of pretentiousness ready to enter the fray, at this point you can pretty much call the race dredlocked.
That his is less a combover than a comb-back, Biden still brings the Obama ticket tressless credibility in a the battle of who is less Bush. And you have to give it to both McCain and Biden for not going in to the what-were-you-thinking rear-hair pullforward.
Still, Obama has history on his side as there hasn’t been a president as hair-challenged at McCain since Eisenhower, and Ike never felt it necessary to camouflage the barren palette with an embroidery harvested from some remote perimeter.
Either way, it could have been worse. He could have picked The Donald.
Award-winning TV writer, author, hair-arranged Steve Young blogs at theappropriately named http://www.steveyoungonpolitics.com/
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