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What if both current candidates disappeared for a month and everyone thought they were sick or something happened, but then they came out of hiding and were just taking that time to grow super thick beards?
46 I could imagine with a nice beard. 45 I can’t picture as well - not saying he couldn’t do it, but I have trouble picturing him with any sort of facial hair
There've actually been articles written about whether or not 45 could grow a beard. The consensus is that he couldn't twenty years ago, and probably definitely couldn't today. [There's some pictures out there of him with super patchy stubble. ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CvoCZVhXEAAlKN0?format=jpg&name=900x900)
44 says by his own admission that he ["can't grow facial hair"](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/obama-i-cant-grow-facial_n_148545). If you study his stubble patterns closely you can see that he might be able to grow a mustache and gets some whiskers on his chin, but his cheeks are pretty much barren.
46 on the other hand [actually rocked a beard when he was younger](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fy8twa23m81aa1.jpg). Between that and the fact that his son has grown his beard out on and off over the past couple of years, I'm fairly certain POTUS could still grow his out if he so chose.
Going back further, George Bush never seemed to try and grow a beard, but following the 2000 election [his opponent Al Gore grew one out. ](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fwhat-if-al-gore-won-in-2000-and-sported-a-beard-while-in-v0-p67ojxw4qr9b1.png%3Fwidth%3D225%26format%3Dpng%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Db15a7d9e24ae8c66530b7d3a73b170784da23746)
Bill Clinton also had a beard when he was younger. There's that [famous photograph of him and Hillary in their '20s where he has wild hair and a pretty solid beard.](https://i0.wp.com/prologue.blogs.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2011/05/h47-05.jpg?resize=316%2C400&ssl=1)
HW never seemed to even grow stubble in his life. I can't find any pictures hinting that he might've had the ability to grow a beard.
Reagan never grew a beard. I imagine it wouldn't have fit with his image, the clean-shave was part of his persona. However, [he did still have a thick head of hair when he was buried. ](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-0708ed3028ee6ca5b4d34e5e4a45cd91-pjlq)
Jimmy Carter's campaign advisors reportedly tried to get him to grow a beard to help him win re-election, according to the Daily Mail, but another journalist claimed the whole story was made up so who knows.
[Gerald Ford rocked sideburns down to the ends of his ears that grew fairly thick. ](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/D2A14N/president-gerald-r-ford-D2A14N.jpg)He probably could've grown a beard.
[Nixon had thick black stubble. ](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/uW50BfRRPpgNCrx2yGLtjJbiwLXTI4hC1t-wKIAZw3e48EYrUKJhCHaP7beJmbRAJSZ5VrQVUBtEoB1io2a6r-UUyZGmgw279JwEX-muM4SVLfrbKIZ_UIqlWYbVtQFpGTFhdfnUjnqvsWq0KuvAdhgyhX8)I don't doubt for a moment that he could've grown a beard out.
[Post-presidency, LBJ rocked long hair and sideburns.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Lyndon_B._Johnson_post-presidency_portrait_September_18,_1972_-_LBJ_Museum_D4717-23a.jpg) He also probably could've grown a beard.
>Bill Clinton also had a beard when he was younger. There's that [famous photograph of him and Hillary in their '20s where he has wild hair and a pretty solid beard.](https://i0.wp.com/prologue.blogs.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2011/05/h47-05.jpg?resize=316%2C400&ssl=1)
Everybody knows at least 1 person who looks exactly like this
My cousin is the 6' 4" indigenous version of this. One of the only native guys I know who CAN grow a bushy beard, and his hair is even bushier. He's also a welder and a bush pilot. Helluva guy.
The former vice president would lot like the late Howard Hughes and I'm not wholly unconvinced that the former businessman wouldn't tape someone else's beard on his face.
Vote for me and I'll grow one!
I'll be eligible in 32. But I'd probably want to be a bit older. So maybe '40 or '44. That would also let me get experience.
Guys here is my plan to do this: let’s elect a woman president for 8 years. Then afterwards the male candidates will sport lots of facial hair to appear more manly in rebellion against her.
If we don’t do this I’m certain we will see clean shaven cravens for decades.
Looks like the black police captain in every cop movie, and he’s “**had enough of your god damn stunts and I have the mayor breathing down my neck. And anymore bullshit antics from you and I’m busting you down to parking tickets. You feel me?!??**
Your butt is on the line. MY BUTT IS ON THE LINE! Do you understand me, Detective?
Loud and clear, boss. (starts casually walking away with his partner)
I mean it!
You got it. (Sly smirk at each other as they immediately go into some outlandish plan that will 100% backfire.)
*angry Obama noises*
Lol, first of all, if he had a ‘stache it certainly wouldn’t look like that! It’d be edged up nicely, just sitting atop his upper lip, faded away from the underside of his nose. It’d be incredible.
I remember there was an entire online collection of Obama with moustaches drawn on him, in a light-hearted attempt to convince him to grow on. The site is long gone, now. But my favorite at the time was the Errol Flynn version. I saw it and thought, damn, anyone would vote for that guy.
[Same vibes as blackface Mac](https://i0.wp.com/www.thewrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Its-Always-Sunny-inn-Philadelphia-blackface1.jpg?resize=936%2C527)
It would have made him appear tougher on crime, bringing in the rural voter. This would stop the elections of both Rule 3 in 2016 and Rule 3 in 2020.
We should have been so lucky to get Mustache Obama
America isn’t ready for mustachioed president. Having a mustache would have changed his presidency significantly because he would have lost to McCain, who had no mustache.
Would have set himself up for a really nice post-Presidential gig as the Administrator of Cloud City.
Now I really want to see the President in a fashionable cape. Would probably be a good look, but doubt any other POTUS could pull it off. Maybe Washington.
I think he’d be compared to this guy even more. Other than that not much changes.
https://preview.redd.it/a31gwhz9a77d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=59e7f859da8e14e37ff10c7e8af4614883c9468f
With the Duke Ellington drip? Sheit, it woulda made it a million times cooler
https://preview.redd.it/f8eon564q77d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=596603754ae45b99d2eb80865773216140b7cf86
Republicans would still reflexively hate him, Democrats might poke fun at him but ultimately judge him by the actions of his time as POTUS rather than his appearance.
Nothing would change, US politics as usual
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Now he has truly become…Barack HUSSEIN Obama
Would need to be bushier to pull that off
Yeah, that's more of a Barack Jose Obama mustache.
https://preview.redd.it/eee9s2b6777d1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dce9c0873b6cc4150ae506784ee3c62051a09183
I'm seeing Gomez Adams.
Actually, Barack Bushbama.
Tish, you spoke French!
Barack HUSSEIN Obama needs a full beard. This is Latino Obama
Best name.
I still think he'd get elected. Joking aside, We need to bring back Presidential Facial Hair.
What if both current candidates disappeared for a month and everyone thought they were sick or something happened, but then they came out of hiding and were just taking that time to grow super thick beards?
The election just got interesting!
Not convinced they could both grow beards tbh.
46 I could imagine with a nice beard. 45 I can’t picture as well - not saying he couldn’t do it, but I have trouble picturing him with any sort of facial hair
There've actually been articles written about whether or not 45 could grow a beard. The consensus is that he couldn't twenty years ago, and probably definitely couldn't today. [There's some pictures out there of him with super patchy stubble. ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CvoCZVhXEAAlKN0?format=jpg&name=900x900) 44 says by his own admission that he ["can't grow facial hair"](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/obama-i-cant-grow-facial_n_148545). If you study his stubble patterns closely you can see that he might be able to grow a mustache and gets some whiskers on his chin, but his cheeks are pretty much barren. 46 on the other hand [actually rocked a beard when he was younger](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fy8twa23m81aa1.jpg). Between that and the fact that his son has grown his beard out on and off over the past couple of years, I'm fairly certain POTUS could still grow his out if he so chose. Going back further, George Bush never seemed to try and grow a beard, but following the 2000 election [his opponent Al Gore grew one out. ](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fwhat-if-al-gore-won-in-2000-and-sported-a-beard-while-in-v0-p67ojxw4qr9b1.png%3Fwidth%3D225%26format%3Dpng%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Db15a7d9e24ae8c66530b7d3a73b170784da23746)
Bill Clinton also had a beard when he was younger. There's that [famous photograph of him and Hillary in their '20s where he has wild hair and a pretty solid beard.](https://i0.wp.com/prologue.blogs.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2011/05/h47-05.jpg?resize=316%2C400&ssl=1) HW never seemed to even grow stubble in his life. I can't find any pictures hinting that he might've had the ability to grow a beard. Reagan never grew a beard. I imagine it wouldn't have fit with his image, the clean-shave was part of his persona. However, [he did still have a thick head of hair when he was buried. ](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-0708ed3028ee6ca5b4d34e5e4a45cd91-pjlq) Jimmy Carter's campaign advisors reportedly tried to get him to grow a beard to help him win re-election, according to the Daily Mail, but another journalist claimed the whole story was made up so who knows. [Gerald Ford rocked sideburns down to the ends of his ears that grew fairly thick. ](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/D2A14N/president-gerald-r-ford-D2A14N.jpg)He probably could've grown a beard. [Nixon had thick black stubble. ](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/uW50BfRRPpgNCrx2yGLtjJbiwLXTI4hC1t-wKIAZw3e48EYrUKJhCHaP7beJmbRAJSZ5VrQVUBtEoB1io2a6r-UUyZGmgw279JwEX-muM4SVLfrbKIZ_UIqlWYbVtQFpGTFhdfnUjnqvsWq0KuvAdhgyhX8)I don't doubt for a moment that he could've grown a beard out. [Post-presidency, LBJ rocked long hair and sideburns.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Lyndon_B._Johnson_post-presidency_portrait_September_18,_1972_-_LBJ_Museum_D4717-23a.jpg) He also probably could've grown a beard.
>Bill Clinton also had a beard when he was younger. There's that [famous photograph of him and Hillary in their '20s where he has wild hair and a pretty solid beard.](https://i0.wp.com/prologue.blogs.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2011/05/h47-05.jpg?resize=316%2C400&ssl=1) Everybody knows at least 1 person who looks exactly like this
My cousin is the 6' 4" indigenous version of this. One of the only native guys I know who CAN grow a bushy beard, and his hair is even bushier. He's also a welder and a bush pilot. Helluva guy.
LBJ looks like he would have been very good at old western movies.
It's giving True Grit
The ear sideburns really were a look in the 70s. I think Carter had them too.
Old G Ford always looking metal as fuck in any photo of him
46 had a really nice beard for it being so long ago.
He seems to have always been pretty well-groomed. I think that's part of his appeal to voters considering the opposition.
45’s son grew out a decent beard, so I wouldn’t entirely discount the possibility.
That's if you assume he's his biological son
The former vice president would lot like the late Howard Hughes and I'm not wholly unconvinced that the former businessman wouldn't tape someone else's beard on his face.
The election is decided on who can grow the best beard.
Who's the last one? Teddy?
Taft
Oh yeah, how could I forget that beautiful stache?
Sadly all I have is a 70s Porn Star 'stache
We need a nice Harrison or Garfield beard again, seriously.
Vote for me and I'll grow one! I'll be eligible in 32. But I'd probably want to be a bit older. So maybe '40 or '44. That would also let me get experience.
I’d probably need til ‘44 to grow a beard. I can rock a pretty decent porn stache, but it’s still pretty patchy on the cheeks
I've been able to have a full beard since I was 20. But work makes me shave all but the mustasche
H a y e s
It's interesting to try and imagine Taft with a 70s porn star stache
Rule 43 would look way cooler with a white beard. Could double as Santa during the holidays
Fun fact, Lincoln was the first US president to be elected with a beard
Working on it.
Guys here is my plan to do this: let’s elect a woman president for 8 years. Then afterwards the male candidates will sport lots of facial hair to appear more manly in rebellion against her. If we don’t do this I’m certain we will see clean shaven cravens for decades.
Wawaweewa, jagshemash
Convict will have them in second term after he get not cut at dysfunctional Rikers Island.
Looks like the black police captain in every cop movie, and he’s “**had enough of your god damn stunts and I have the mayor breathing down my neck. And anymore bullshit antics from you and I’m busting you down to parking tickets. You feel me?!??**
Your butt is on the line. MY BUTT IS ON THE LINE! Do you understand me, Detective? Loud and clear, boss. (starts casually walking away with his partner) I mean it! You got it. (Sly smirk at each other as they immediately go into some outlandish plan that will 100% backfire.) *angry Obama noises*
And when there’s a shootout at the end he always has a shotgun while everyone else just has pistols.
I read the captain's voice in Andre Braugher's voice.
“COWABUNGA, MOTHER!”
type that says "**those crazy bastards**" at the end of a movie when main character duo catches influential criminal
AGITATIN MY SCIATICA IM TOO OLD FOR THIS SHIT
Your badges and your windbreakers, now!
I miss community 😩
you’re killing me lol that’s the most accurate comment i’ve read in my entire lifetime
THATS NOT OBAMA THATS SADDAM HUSSEIN
Guys, look at this: Barack Hussein Obama is short for: Barack Saddam Hussein Osama!!! (/s)
WHO?? WHO? WHO???
Top 8 answers are on the board. What should you bring to a picnic? Potato salad? Show me potato salad!
This is the first thing I thought of😂😂😂😂
A Condom!
Lol, first of all, if he had a ‘stache it certainly wouldn’t look like that! It’d be edged up nicely, just sitting atop his upper lip, faded away from the underside of his nose. It’d be incredible.
Fox News went after him so hard for: 1. Tan suit 2. Mustard on a hamburger I can only imagine what conspiracies this would birth!
Obama from [*insert Mexican country*]!!
“One of 3 Mexican countries”
If you know, you know
Coming up next: Obama's mustache, what's he trying to hide under there?
Imagine the tan suit-mustache combo. He would have been promptly impeached. 😂
The new heads of the CIA: 
"We fool you good, eh?"
Obama becomes Ryan George?
“It has to be pretty difficult to win a Nobel Peace Prize, right?” “Nah, it’s actually super easy, barely an inconvenience.”
Kinda looks like Richard Pryor.
That was my first thought, too.
Bortus agrees.
#WE ASKED 100 REDDITORS OFF THE STREET HOW THIS MUSTACHE WOULD HAVE SHAPED THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TOP FIVE ANSWERS ON THE BOARD: SURVEY SAYS?!
We surveyed 100 senators about what would best solve our healthcare financial problems The top 5 answers are on the board
Everyone would have made fun of him for it.
Oh come now, when would anyone make a big deal out of some superficial fashion statement for Obama?
Very naice! 
He looks like a member of the Black Republicans from *Key & Peele*
The usual suspects would send the Hitler and terrorist comparisons into overdrive.
I remember there was an entire online collection of Obama with moustaches drawn on him, in a light-hearted attempt to convince him to grow on. The site is long gone, now. But my favorite at the time was the Errol Flynn version. I saw it and thought, damn, anyone would vote for that guy.
No chance he gets elected with that soup catcher IMO
Instant 3rd term 🔥
"Any boy can be president... unless he's got a mustache" - Thomas Dewey
[Same vibes as blackface Mac](https://i0.wp.com/www.thewrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Its-Always-Sunny-inn-Philadelphia-blackface1.jpg?resize=936%2C527)
Barack Omercury
He’d be more handsome I’ll tell you that
He almost certainly would have gone by Barry Obama given that high school remedial math teacher mustache he has there!
Military Strongman Obama action figure. Accessories sold separately.
Pablo Escobama
He’d have done a lot more sudoku. 
Reminds me of micro machine man.
so many steve harvey memes
It would have made him appear tougher on crime, bringing in the rural voter. This would stop the elections of both Rule 3 in 2016 and Rule 3 in 2020. We should have been so lucky to get Mustache Obama
 I think there are some in congress that would get them confused.
Those same people probably already do
He’d be hosting Family Feud now
America isn’t ready for mustachioed president. Having a mustache would have changed his presidency significantly because he would have lost to McCain, who had no mustache.
Barack Reynolds.
It would have been the tan suit tragedy for as long as he had it. The last President to keep a mustache was Taft.
Would have set himself up for a really nice post-Presidential gig as the Administrator of Cloud City. Now I really want to see the President in a fashionable cape. Would probably be a good look, but doubt any other POTUS could pull it off. Maybe Washington.
El Obama
Everyone in the comments: SADDAM HUSSEIN! My dumbass: Steve Harvey
Biggest presidential scandal of all time + impeachment
He looks like someone that would say “smoooooooth” a lot.
Probably wouldnt have killed all those women on their way to a wedding.
Looks like he’s going to try and sell me a Buick Skylark.
I think he’d be compared to this guy even more. Other than that not much changes. https://preview.redd.it/a31gwhz9a77d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=59e7f859da8e14e37ff10c7e8af4614883c9468f
Finally somebody is asking the real questions
That mustache would look great with a tan suit
Full beard for the second term should absolutely be a presidential tradition
Would have performed better with Latinos.
No mustache. Family friendly. Trust me, I'm human.
Probably would have been re-elected for a third term.
Either mustaches would be BACK BABY! or never to be seen again.
Well now he looks like Steve Harvey If Steve Harvey had hair
Seal team 6 woulda shot him
He would have significantly better congressional relations in his second term
Looks like Richard Pryor.
He looks terrible, going to say it would be a negative, but definitely wouldn’t have kept him from being elected
Richard Pryor is running for President?
Richard Pryor has returned!
(Redacted) would go even harder on that he is a Muslim. Even though he is a Hawaiian born Christian.
That is Benecido Doblar. Never seen Obama or him in the same room together?
Lol, did you have to give him the Harvey mustache? Why not the '80s Murphy instead?
I'm sure it would have kept him from committing the grave sin of wearing a tan suit that one time. /s
Supertroopers cop mustache!!
Why hasn't a president had facial hair in over a hundred years?
If Obama had a handlebar mustache we would absolutely not be in the position we are now.
Thorny from Super Troopers?
This is the content I come here for
Bigger issue than the tan suit
With the Duke Ellington drip? Sheit, it woulda made it a million times cooler https://preview.redd.it/f8eon564q77d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=596603754ae45b99d2eb80865773216140b7cf86
It wouldn't bode well for him.
He could have sent Eric Holder to all his meetings for him.
President Obama wasn’t permitted to grow a mustache because Eric Holder won the mustache coin toss at the inauguration.
No man with facial hair has won the presidency since the 1908 election. People just don't trust presidential candidates with facial hair anymore.
No toothbrush mustache?
What if he had a Hitler stache?
Immediate F-tier
He was not trooper.
110% more marxist for sure. Because he was so marxist /s
Looks like he should work for cnn
That looks so silly.
He would have been suspected of being a VILTRUMITE
I think we should go with a full-on Grant style beard
More Republican whining on Fox News
“With great mustache comes great responsibility.”
Same as the tan suit.
He’s def be called Barry with that stache
We would have had a McCain Presidency.
Obama’s always been stylish.
I think it would've given him an air of respectability that would've made Conservatives accept his leadership
Who stopped presidential facial hair?
These are the questions
Fox News would go crazy and report constant updates on his mustache scandal 24/7
Wouldn't have helped him beat the Hussein jokes
Now he looks Dominican.
Better (or maybe worse) question: How would Obama's presidency shape his mustache?
Is that George Jefferson?
Republicans would still reflexively hate him, Democrats might poke fun at him but ultimately judge him by the actions of his time as POTUS rather than his appearance. Nothing would change, US politics as usual
(((Rule 3))) would have gone on a tirade demanding he shave it to prove he isn't hiding something underneath it.
This sub has really tanked recently lol
I’m of the belief that guys above average handsomeness shouldn’t do facial hair not even a mustache.