This is pretty cool. Someone took the time to time to make this video in which the faces of all 44 Presidents are morphed into each other. My, how far we've come.
A wide-eyed Megyn Kelly is wowed by sketchy Moonie Times report blaming '08 economic crisis on (Chinese?) terrorists
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John Stossel Runs Hour Long Program Attacking the Poor and Our Social Safety Nets
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Bill Maher Takes a Shot at the Birthers With Parody on Romney's 'Wiferism' Scandal |
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Anti-Contraception Cardinal Refuses to Say Romney Is a Christian |
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Liz Claman of Fox Business: Criticizing Romney's Record at Bain Capital is Like Birtherism |
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Gillespie Defends Romney Only Doing Fox News: He Spoke 'to Schoolchildren Last Week' |
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Colbert Makes a Mockery of Santorum Refusing to Refute Elderly Birther at Campaign Stop |
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Stockman: Romney Can't Say He Learned How to Create Jobs in the Leveraged Buyout Business |
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Bill Maher Takes a Shot at the Birthers With Parody on Romney's 'Wiferism' Scandal |
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Krugman: Romney's Business Career is Fair Game |
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Arizona Congressional Candidate 'Pulls a Coffman' |
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NC Pastor: Put an Electric Fence Around Gays and Lesbians to Make Sure They 'Die Out' |
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Stephen Colbert Converts All Dead Mormons to Judaism |
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Millionaire Nick Hanauer Shoots Down Neil Cavuto's Straw Men as He Explains Why His Taxes Should be Raised |
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Maddow: Conservatives Construct Separate Media World |
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Compassionate Conservatism: Romney Meets Medical Marijuana Patient |
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As a Native American I'm still waiting for a little more change - but this is good for a start.
Don't take this the wrong way but that's a lot of white guys ....
regards - CF
And I'm white.
Well, sorta pink/beige.
I hope that I live long enough to see a Native American President, then a hispanic, then maybe someone of Asian extraction - not necessarily in that order. That's when we would have really matured as a country.
Check out those 20th century Republicans - the only decent ones were Eisenhower and Clinton....
Yeah, I know; I'm just sayin'...
but besides his crooked way, Nixon was pretty liberal in today's standards. He wasn't that bad.
... Tricky Dick does seem fairly decent.
But just listen to his recently released tapes, the ones where he bashes McGovern and the press and the "establishment." That was one messed-up dude, and no amount of "rehabilitation" can alter that.
In the end, he was a Republican. Enough said.
and the fools from his administration corrupted the raygun and boosh(1 & 2) administrations, especially dick cheney, who was a congressman who wrote a dissenting opinion against impeaching noxin. you might think about that before you canonize that lying-assed cowardly corrupt sunuvabeeyatch.
noxin was scum and his legacy is what you are living with, including corporatism.
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....have been nothing more than a toilet bowl ring.
Read "The rise of Theodore Roosevelt" or "Theodore Rex" by Edmond Morris. You might just add him to your list.
I'm re-reading "Theodore Rex". He's just become President. He choosing (to keep) McKinley's cabinet. He also decided to court marshall a General in the Philippines for water boarding prisoners. Apparently that was considered torture back then.
His first big "mistake" was having Booker Washington to the White house for dinner. He also spoke out against lynching. This enraged Democrats everywhere...
FDR became a Dem because there were too many Roosevelts to compete with in the GOP. Maybe that's when the parties started switching with each other..
I forgot about that guy....now Teddy R. was a true Conservative.
The parties started switching when TR ran as an independent & split the Republican vote allowing Woodrow Wilson into the White House. Since the nation was essentially "center-left," Wilson had no choice but to adopt some popular lefty causes, most notoriously, the League of Nations. This forced the Republicans into an opposition stance...& so forth. FDR became a Dem because that was the "liberal" party by that point.
I love those morphy-things. Nice musical accompaniment too.
Bolero.
If you liked that, check out his string quartet, piano concerto - just about anything that he composed.
Good stuff.
Even though I've heard that song many times before, I just couldn't put my finger on the name of it.
Truly gorgeous music.
Bolero sure had an impact on the above movie with Dudley Moore and Bo Derek!
That was amazing. My sincere gratitude to the person or persons who made it. It's fun to just watch the eyes as they morph. Did I mention that I am easily entertained? Seriously, I enjoyed the hell out of watching that video.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I thought it was great! I, too, am apparently easily amused. :-)
I am saddened to say that I could not have identified far too many of them by sight. Sure, all from the early 1900's up but it was almost as if I was seeing some of them for the first time. Worse yet, when I recently did a Name All The Presidents game (online), I couldn't even remember a couple of their names. (See...easily amused!)
I'm with you - I really appreciate the time and skill that was put into this.
Apparently, Jimmy Carter was the first president who could physically open his mouth for a presidential portrait.
My hat is off to the technical artist who spent all the time to make this piece. Very excellently realized, sir or madam!
Here's a great freeware morphing program, for any of you aspiring future morphists:
http://www.xiberpix.net/SqirlzMorph.html
I agree, whoever put that together is very talented.
Some of those presidential dudes were surprisingly good-looking!
Hell, I'm even one of his admirers who thinks that Abe Lincoln was one sharp-looking fellow, at least for his time.
James Monroe looks a little like Robert Wexler of Florida.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Neato! I thought Millard Fillmore was actualy rather dashing.
It would have been interesting if the "morphist" had used more of the music from the end of Bolero - kind of blaring and crashing when Bush appeared on the screen.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
Almost NONE of them were looking right at you...(Obama was)...guess it's not artistically acceptable for a politician to look you in the eye.....
....several of them are looking right out of the screen - freaked me out several times! Especially Nixon and Reagan.
I was amazed by how much Bush I looked like Reagan, too. Too bad he had none of that charisma - wouldn't be prudent.
And, Obama isn't "technically" President, yet but what the heck!
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A lot of Robber Barons after Lincoln
I broke into a big grin when Obama came around.
What I find most interesting is the facial hair that comes and suddenly goes away. It peaked during and after the Civil War and by Taft (#27) it was gone completely.
First REAL smile.. Seems he started a trend. "Some people" say he is the worst president ever. I still turn unused lights off because of him AND he tried to make peace in the middle east all those years ago. He actually practiced christian ideals. He was a submarine captain and that's super badass. I'm just glad we have some internets now and have more an idea of how badly we are being screwed..
Okay, I'm being picky here - but "christian values" have been horrifying me a lot lately.
eg the vatican's most recent effort at lobbying the UN to make it easier for nations to exterminate gays.
Anyway, yeah; I still turn out lights and turn down the thermostat and all those things that Carter led the way on thirty some years ago.
Carter put solar panels on the Whitehouse.
Asshat Ray Gun took 'em down.
..xtian values as they are being popularly presented to us these days, but, as a concept, those values are still generally sound in principle, Jesus-wise.
It's organized religion and the pyramid schemes inherent within the church which have mainly perverted those values, not people of real faith and humanitarian concerns, like Jimmy Carter and so many other real Christians whom we never get to hear from often enough. jmo
I just don't understand why people need a god to ensure that they'll do the right thing.
To my mind, god-belief stands between people and the fact that life is an incredibly short spark in the endless black of time.
And the concept that we must make paradise here and now if we are ever to see it.
..just to arrive at becoming a secular humanist. Religion as a whole had little to offer in my quest to become a better and more caring human being, but it's good to still have faith, in some form or another.
I missed the Vatican thing. Can you post links in the Open Thread later...or give me a good search phrase to Google?
Google vatican execution gays or
Http://www.progressivepuppy.com the Dec 2 08 posting.
disgusting lot of bloody pedophiles
I think that there might have been a link on C&L blog roundup yesterday or the day before.
Where is the link? Where do I click?
... did you know that the pitiful Franklin Pierce -- a craggy Northerner who was fine with slavery, who drank a lot, and who was generally a miserable human being -- is a direct ancestor of the pearl-wearing gila monster, Barbara (Pierce) Bush?
President No. 43 -- a gross historical aberration -- is far and away the worst of the lot. At least Van Buren and Grant and Harding, et al, could speak and write in complete sentences.
Notice how most of the worst presidents are Repugs? No surprise there.
In the words of Johnny Carson ...."I did not know that!"
Some interesting life stories in that video. One of the more memorable episodes I read about physically and was (I believe) either the only bachelor or one of two of the bunch, Pres. Polk of Tennessee, responsible largely for taking Texas from Mexico and ordering military action against the Mexicans in California, with getting a painful kidney stone removed by boring straight thru his prostate to remove it. I can only wonder how that felt. Number 15, James Buchanan, is often referred to as one of the worst of the bunch for doing nothing in quelling the winds of war before giving way to Lincoln.
Radix Omnium Malorum Avaritia
Is it just me or does anyone else wonder why they're all (with a few straight on exceptions) in right semi-profile? Is the de rigueur for presidential portraits?
It was great until no. 43 came up. That ruined the whole show.
Hence all the regenerations..
Is that the name under the last president on that clip was listed as:
Barack H. Obama.
H.
Just an initial.
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a pretty scary bunch.
Perhaps some creative person can compose the presidential version (88 lines about 44 presidents) of this classic college rock song?
Go for it- your couplet on Bush or Nixon could live in infamy!
They are all still men aged 40 and up. Same old thing really. Obama has darkskin but is only half black, he was raised with a white family and went to mostly white upper class schools. Just like all of the other presidents. Same old thing.
until 2008.
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Bolero?
Interesting choice...
From men such as George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison to a man such as George W. Bush. Frightening. Thank God it seems that the nation may have learned its lesson.
Well, we can hope...
I think I still prefer Coulton's "The Presidents". Even if it does end with 'dubya.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdUUywIsIGI
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