Our Last Bald President?

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Originally uploaded by dangunderman.

While hanging out with my fellow baldies last night (I have large number of bald friends, and not just the men), one made the matter-of-fact statement that we'll never elect a bald president again.

Relating to the all-important media image now necessary in national politics, he may have raised a good point. But I feel like us baldies are discovering a resurgence in our self-confidence. No longer relying on rugs, pieces, and weaves (Trent Lott notwithstanding), we have learned how to look (relatively) good while being follicly-challenged.

So I feel there's hope for the shiny pate to return to the Oval Office. We do, after all, have the most appropriately shaped head for being in the Oval Office.

But until my bald buddy can be proven wrong, we have Ike shining the way like a beacon (reflectively off his prominent forehead) for what bald folk could once, and perhaps could still, accomplish.

And let's look at the man's legacy. Born in Kansas, a bald, treeless state if ever there was one, Dwight is best known for creating our national Interstate system. He built bald surfaces all over the country to pay homage to his own head. The man was a genius.

And Ike had it right: keep what little hair you have cropped short. For him, perhaps, it was more about his military background than his ultra-hip image (although he was known to wear red Chuck Taylors with his beige suits), but still, he was a precursor to today's Michael Jordans and Woody Harrelsons.

Of course, someone was telling me they read some article calling today's shaved head the "new comb-over," simply a means to covering our baldness. Well, I'd like to invite that person to suck another bald head I happen to possess.