1.0 link 148878 <![CDATA[Famous Beards In Politics (SLIDESHOW)]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/07/famous-beards-in-politics_n_148878.html This past week, there was much ado about facial hair between declaring 2008 the year of the mustache, Bill Richardson's missing beard and Obama's admission in 2006 that he can't grow facial hair at all.

A 2001 Slate article analyzing Al Gore's beard, entitled Beards: Why are they such a turnoff?, states:

Not surprisingly, democratically elected politicians have tended to follow fashion trends. The first U.S. president to sport a beard, Abe Lincoln, did so only...
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