Here she is ---pix->>>

[Stephanie]

A loyal member of his inner circle - it's almost like he's rigging the system, like he's worried about something.




Harriet Miers speaks after President Bush announced, Monday Oct. 3, 2005, that his White House counsel Harriet Miers, the first women president of the Texas State Bar and Bushs former personal attorney, is his choice to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day OConnor. Bush made the announcement in the Oval Office in the White House. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/051003/480/whre10210031228




President Bush leaves the Oval Office of the White House with Harriet Miers in this Nov. 14, 2003 file photo. Bush has chosen Miers, White House counsel and a loyal member of the president's inner circle, to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, a senior administration official said Monday, Oct. 3, 2005. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/051003/480/ny11510031121

[ClintonTyree]

1. She's an unfortunate looking woman......

we Democrats have all the cuties and smarties on our side. But I'm SURE she's highly qualified. Right? RIGHT?

[MildyRules]

2. OMG

Pot to kettle: Ruth Bader Ginsberg???

Let's not bring looks into this. Let's worry about her actual qualifications.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. I'm Not Going To Comment Oh Anybody's Looks

but the Freepers play that card all the time....


They cherrypick all the "attractive" female Republicans and cherrypick all the "unattractive" female Democrats and then act as if they are making a point....


It's disgusting no matter whom the target...

[bunkerbuster1]

11. Nor will I, but I wonder if that claimed age is honest.

She might be older than 60.

Which would be a good thing for the Republic.

[shanti]

57. how old

are they saying she is?

[bunkerbuster1]

59. 60.

[fujiyama]

16. It's stupid as well

Although I will say there is something creepy about the eyes of these Bush nominees....They just LOOK evil!

[xmas74]

53. Too much eyeliner.

Never good for older eyes. Too harsh.

She doesn't look evil to me-just looks like a "yes" man.

[nvliberal]

54. Not only that, but there's ageism involved.

It's depressing when people have such a juvenile attitude about other people solely on the basis of how they look.

I couldn't care less, and neither should anybody else.

[CBHagman]

87. I know. No one asks Henry Kissinger's suit size.

Except for rather bitchy surveys of Capitol Hill staffers (in which Paul Wellstone and Ron Dellums were, respectively, derided and lauded for their manner of dress), men in public life get away with whatever appearance.

Okay, Jon Stewart DID make fun of John Bolton's mustache. But that's the exception.

[Roland99]

21. What qualifications?

[OhioChick]

7. Unfortunate?

Being a bit generous, aren't we?

[all.of.me]

12. no.....

she's another crony..... ? wrong? wrong? ;) heaven help us once again. when is that anti-cronyism bill due to be passed?!?!

[the48er]

3. *Not* Betty Davis Eyes

More like Tammy Faye, Katherine Harris, and Marty Feldman. Cool.

[Wickerman]

4. She is on NBC live now with Bush**

Frozen smile.

[elehhhhna]

5. Great .The first mullet on the USSC belongs to a woman? Thanks alot.

[peekaloo]

10. .

:spray:

That's her Jesus of Nazareth hair! Or a member of Nazareth :shrug:

[blondeatlast]

45. Your second choice is correct, at least in the sense of

groupieness.

I'm so ashamed of myself...

[mntleo2]

6. Frozen Smile? OMG

Sooo, she is another Stepford Wife? Are all Rethug women Stepford Wives? I am beginning to wonder...

Cat In Seattle <---stroking chin

[peekaloo]

9. Crush with eyeliner.

sorry that r.e.m. song sprung into my head for some reason.

[lonestarnot]

13. YUCK YUCK YUCK face would stop a nine day clock!

[TWiley]

40. Will vomit bags be placed in the pocket of the chair ahead?

Just wondering.

[tigersumtin]

79. Oh lord, not only

Would she stop the clock, how bout make it run backwards. way to much eye liner.

[Straight Shooter]

14. Karen Hughes' long-lost sister?

All this talk of her association with bush, and yet I'm curious to know her past association with Karen "Middle East Sweetheart" Hughes.

[SammyWinstonJack]

15. Definitely lose the black eye liner.

:scared:

[MsTryska]

39. word.....she needs to lose it like a bad habit.....

or at least not ring her eyes with it.

[Toucano]

17. Some in this thread should be ASHAMED!

How the woman looks is so beneath comment!

There's so much in this announcement that's more important that the woman's appearance is the least of our worries.

How about the fact that she was Shrub's personal lawyer? That doesn't send a chill down anybody's spine?

[Stephanie]

18. Why is it okay to comment about Bush's appearance?

We seem to have a double standard on this board.

[Toucano]

19. I never said that was okay and frequently ask that we stay on substance.

However, there are differences between talking about a person's eye make-up, wrinkles, and weight and talking about a particular expression that indicates mood or temperment.

Most of the comments about Bush's appearance are regarding his expression - an indication of his mind and temperment.

Criticizing a person's appearance as "unsexy" or "ugly" is inappropriate for a supposedly progressive person whether it's Bush, Cheney, Condi or Karen Hughes.

Saying that Condi's snarl makes her look particularly hostile today or that the boots she's chosen to wear have an overt militaristic character is not exactly the same thing as saying, "Man, her ass sure is big!"

[Stephanie]

20. So is it fair to wonder why a SC nominee is wearing so much eyeliner?

She's caked it on like a desperate teenager. Note that my opening post was not about her appearance. I questioned her being a "loyal" member of the "inner circle." However, I'm tired of nannies telling us what we are allowed to say, especially if the subject is a woman. We often speculate about Bush's red face (drunk), his jaw grinding (coke jaw), his blemishes and injuries (drunk). And yet it's hands off the women. Laura Bush is a sacred cow around here. Don't say mean things about Laura! When she has done more to put the Chimp in office and smooth over his failings than ANYONE ELSE. When you join the criminal Bush Family you are FAIR GAME. I'm tired of the post policing.

[hang a left]

22. here here

and with that said she should take 10 to 15 grand and have her face done. Or at least her damn eyelids for chrise sakes!

[Toucano]

72. Wow.

Maybe that's why the left in the US will always lose.

They out-freep the freepers.

[hang a left]

83. Maybe your not up on all of our vote fraud here in the US

seeing as you don't live here. There is a forum right here on DU that can help you acquaint yourself with Diebold.

And maybe you didn't here about Florida 2000 down there in Costa Rica, but, it was quite the mess. :rollseyes:

[Toucano]

86. Oh, yes. There was voter fraud so we can be assholes.

Carte blanche!

I don't think you know what you're talking about, but you should consider that many of us who left the US after the 2004 elections did so in part because the left offers no real alternative.

It's bad enough to have the worst government in the world, but when the "opposition" :rofl: is as bad as the people in power, there is no point.

The opposition is as bad as the people in power because the supporters of the opposition are as bad also. You expect nothing, so you're manipulated and get nothing.

You eye surgery comment only serves as another example of the truth that DU can out freep the freepers.

[Stephanie]

88. Oh, you LEFT the US after the elections!

And now you sit in your Costa Rico armchair and criticize OUR behavior? We're here FIGHTING. You FLED. We need no advice from you.

[Toucano]

89. Oh, but you'll get it!

You're not even qualified to say what you need. You clearly have no idea.

By the way, you're not fighting. That's an illusion. You will not defeat Miers just like you didn't defeat Roberts, or Gonzales, or Rice, or Bolton, or the bankruptcy bill, or the medicare sham, or the tax cuts for the rich, or the Patriot Act II, etcettera.

No, you'll be fighting for better LOOKING Supreme Court justices while your nation circles the drain.

I promise to write to you in the concentration camps Miers helps Dubya put you in! :) The condition of her eyes should weigh heavily on your mind about that time. I'll include photos of people with BEAUTIFUL eyes to comfort you!

[Stephanie]

90. Yes, *concentration camps* jokes are in excellent taste!

Thanks for your wisdom and guidance. But really, I suggest you join www.democratsinexileunderground.com - you have nothing in common with those of us who are here fighting. Fight or Flight, you chose Flight. Enjoy!

[Toucano]

71. Keep me out of your "We"

I have never contributed to discussions about anyone's personal appearance, coke jaw, drinking, etc.

I wonder what the point is regarding the eyeliner. What character trait does (in your mind) excessive eyeliner indicate? What bearing does that trait have on her qualifications for the court?

It's not about the gender of the person. I rejected the inane "observations" about Howard Dean having no neck, the pointless criticisms about John Kerry's elongated face, and the dismissal of John Edwards' intellect due to his "blow-dried" sex appeal.

Many people on this board NEED a fucking nanny because they act like children.

Since your first post wasn't about being a superficial image Nazi, I wasn't talking about you in the first place.

[Stephanie]

76. Keep ME out of YOUR we.

Honestly how do you get off telling an entire board of Democrats what they are and are not allowed to say? If you don't like the discussion you are welcome to sit it out, but don't expect 70,000 posters to obey your rules.

As to the relevance of her eyeliner, it reveals to me that she is self-deluded and clueless. She is making herself up like Britney Spears on the day her SC nomination is announced. I find it reveals her immaturity.

Look, if you don't get it, that's okay with me. I'm not telling you what you're allowed to post here. But I will post whatever I like, within the DU rules. To each their own.

[Toucano]

77. Where did I tell you or anyone else what they are allowed to say?

Please supply a quote.

[Stephanie]

81. "I never said that was okay and frequently ask that we stay on substance."

[Toucano]

84. That's not telling you what you can and can't say.

There's no free speech issue here, and you know it.

You and the other sweet, loving individuals who think calling a person a "sea hag" is appropriate are perfectly free to do so. There's absolutely nothing stoping you from doing the wrong thing except your own conscience.

Telling you that you shouldn't is not telling you that you can't. You always retain the right to be wrong.

It typifies exactly why the left in the US always loses so miserably. Many apparently can't begin to conceive what it actually means to have your speech regulated. The new Supreme Court should take care of that.

[symbolman]

31. Know what?

I got drafted and FOUGHT for my country in 1971, and what for? FOR ME TO HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH - so guess what?

I'll call a saddlebag a saddlebag if I want to, and YOU have the freedom to IGNORE these comments.

Unless you are running for Jello Sheriff (Bill Cosby anyone?) or have doves that come to take your feces away..

My 500 lb pal was FAT and we made no bones about it, FAT, it means just what it says, and this woman is what I would call "coyote ugly" - one of my ugly female friends in Alaska used to laugh and say she had Three Arms on her wall as trophies of the men who went home drunk with her, woke up with their arms under her head on the pillow and chewed them off at the elbow to GET AWAY..

Even tho she was ugly she was a great pal, or you can do what Eddie Murphy used to say, "Hey, them ugly people are lonely, and they need sex as bad as you do, next time you see and ugly person, go up to them and say 'Dammit, Let's have SEX!' - Do them a favor.."

Or as one black (black! did I offend someone?) comedian said once, "Marry you an Ugly woman, she'll never cheat on you, and if you go out and get drunk, when you come home, she starts lookin' pretty Good.."

Be as PC as you want, be a being of Light, but don't tell other people that they can't INSULT NAZIS, PLEASE..

Holding our tongues is how these bastards get into office and KILL EVERYONE.

[nvliberal]

56. And don't forget newspaper photographers

are notorious for taking pictures of public figures when they look the most unflattering.

THOSE are the pictures that make it in newspapers and online, not the pictures which make the public figures look better.

I've seen a quite a few public figures in person, and without exception they look MUCH better in person than they do in pictures or even on television.

Only models and actors, who have tons and tons of makeup, cosmetic surgery, and the like, actually photograph better than they look in real life.

[Balbus]

23. C'mon, you know appearance is always the primary target for us on DU

We haven't even gotten to her shopping habits or the type of car she drives yet. Her stance on policies is waaaaayyyyy down the list.

Hmmm, I wonder where she buys her shoes....

[Stephanie]

25. That's not true either

And in fact this thread is about her being a member of the inner circle. And if you look, you'll see twenty threads already about her policies, her political contributions, and her assistance to Bush in the past. But why should we censor our conversation? Being too polite is a hindrance. The posters above are stating the obvious. It's a natural reaction. So what?

[RebelOne]

27. Bashing this woman's looks is very childish.

Do we have a bunch of elementary or high school kids on this forum?

[Stephanie]

28. No, we have a bunch of scolding nannies.

[TWiley]

43. Yep, it sure does seem that way. Let em scold republicraps.

You will notice how well the "nice nice" strategy worked out for us all during the last campaign cycle.

We would be living in a different world today if Kerry would have royally kicked some republicrap ass. Lord knows there was enough of it hanging out there to be kicked.

[Toucano]

75. Children need nannies.

It's like a bunch of junior high schoolers around here sometimes.

[NashVegas]

80. I *Would* Agree

If it weren't for the Katherine Harris connection.

[THUNDER HANDS]

36. wrong

She'll be easier to take on because she's an ugly woman, compared to Roberts, who was a generally, descent looking man.

Looks play a big part in people's perceptions.

Ugly = bad

In the minds of the American people, she'll be easier to be made into a bad person and someone not worthy of nomination if we pound hard enough. The fact that she looks like a zombie helps a lot in this regard.

[TWiley]

41. I believe she is a white house lawyer

Does that make her shrubs "personal" lawyer? I think there are a few obscure differences, but the effect is the same.

BTW, all this "playing nice" stuff did not work out too well for us during the last election cycle. A record number of volunteers, a record amount of money, and a record loss of power due to a crappy "but nice" campaign strategy. Maybe it IS time to rough up the opposition a little.

[July]

63. She was his personal lawyer before the WH gig. nt

[sub.theory]

42. I'm feeling it

Not to mention the fact that she looks like a god damn vampire. I'm feeling the cold chills...

:evilgrin:

[blondeatlast]

46. When it comes to artificial means to one's looks, I amke an exception.

Unless her eyes are naturally rimmed that way. In that case :spank: me.

Seriously, the eyeliner goes to her judgment ability, IMO.

[Stephanie]

67. What about this?

[DS1]

24. He just threw her to the wolves, so the Dems can't attack

his real choice as much.

[Stephanie]

26. this is what I'm wondering

I wonder if he doesn't really want a woman, so he throws her out, then goes with Gonzales when she's rejected.

[Balbus]

29. Because it's nothing but playground dribble - Grow up! eom

[Stephanie]

32. Excuse me?

What are you talking about?

[Balbus]

50. I replied to wrong post - I apologize.

[DS1]

30. It's not whather he wants a woman or not

but if the Dems can make a girl cry on the stand, they're gonna be slaughtered by the media.

Yeah, it's shallow and dripping with mysogyny , but that's what I think is going to happen.

[blondeatlast]

47. Yup. I could almost feel sorry for her. Almost. nt

[Arkana]

33. Scary, but not as frightening as Chief Crazy Eyes.

[Javaman]

34. She need to calm down on the eyeliner, it's not helping her beedie eyes.

she's a crony from the get go. boot her and start over.

[Arugula Latte]

38. I know. I haven't seen eyeliner like that since

the seventh grade in the late '70s -- that's what the stoner girls wore, thick black eyeliner all the way around the eyes.

[Marr]

35. I don't like Bush's "stealth nominee" tactics.

I know we've had Supreme Court Justices without experience as judges before, but he just DID this same thing with Roberts. I think leaving everyone in the dark on a candidate's position on key legal questions is rather disrespectful of the process.

[dogday]

37. I don't like to criticize people's looks, but I

can criticize her experience which is null. At least 1 year's experience like Clarence Thomas or something. Come on, she had never been a judge in her life....

[npincus]

44. the giant cross she had around her neck today was cropped out

of the photo.

[begin_within]

48. Barbara Walters called and wants all three of the wigs back TODAY.

[Neshanic]

49. Case worker from "Bettlejuice"

[FlaGranny]

51. Ugly?

Come on folks, this woman is completely average looking. You'd never notice anything unusual about her if you saw her in the mall on a Saturday morning. She doesn't even have "fanatical" eyes. She looks like your average businesswoman.

Must be something more to pick at than her looks, at least I hope so, because they aren't that bad for her age.

[BringEmOn]

52. Sea Hag

[bj2110]

55. So Bush nominated a corpse??

[dancingme]

58. Harriet in high school

[JCMach1]

60. and here

[mshasta]

61. another reptile on the wall.....................

they live, we die....

[bloom]

62. "a pit bull in size 6 shoes" - according to Bush*

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/20/AR2005062001161.html

I don't like pit bulls. I really don't.

3 of them attacked a boy getting off a school bus last week near here.

Last month one killed an old man who had been sitting on his porch in the next county over.

Republicans sure seem to like them and what they represent. That they attack (pre-emptively) and don't let go - don't give up? :shrug:

[rasputin1952]

64. it seems like those around bush lack anything behind their eyes...

maybe it is just me, but I get the distinct impression they are soulless...:shrug:

Look at bush's eyes in the first pic, it is as though there is NOTHING behind them! Look into her eyes, and the same impression is apparent. It is as if they are chosen simply because of the lack of a soul.

[centristo]

65. damn

she looks worse than Helen Thomas.

[Stephanie]

68. Congratulations!

You just outted yourself.

[centristo]

69. because i said helen thomas was ugly?

I respect and admire the woman, but please...

[Ediacara]

66. Weird

today's photo looks like a completely different woman than the woman in the older photos.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

70. Claude Rains in drag?

[HappyMoonBat]

73. That last one looks like Horseshack (from Welcome Back Kotter) in drag.

x

[RebelOne]

74. Grow up, people!!! Stop bashing her appearance.

It is childish and immature. I am sure a lot of you are not any better looking than her.

[TWiley]

82. Why not scold the republiturds?

Or, do you only flame democrats?

[Cleita]

78. Shouldn't the replacement be a Black or Hispanic woman

Democrat? I mean if he were a real President, he would try to balance the court since those are life long appointments.

[chat_noir]

85. separated at birth

http://ronmwangaguhunga.blogspot.com/2005/10/separated-at-birth-supreme-court.html