THE POLITICS OF PRESIDENTIAL PRIMPING: THE BARBERSHOP ALWAYS WINS!

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Well, now that the Presidential election is finally over, we can all breathe a sigh of relief – pontificating pundits, endlessly repeating talking points, will no longer be haunting our airwaves night after night. Okay…so they’ll still be on TV, but at least they won’t be talking about the election.

Funny thing, though. After the hours and hours and hours (and hours) of these party flacks handicapping the race in every possible way, one important topic was completely overlooked – barbershops!

You don’t think barbershops matter in presidential politics? Think again.

May 18th, 1993. When then-President Bill Clinton apparently didn’t have time to visit the local barbershop, it was reported that he held up air traffic while he sat on Air Force One on an LAX runway getting a haircut from super-exclusive Beverly Hills hairstylist Christophe. This created an enormous uproar and accusations of elitism that finally forced Clinton to issue a public apology.

A similar high-priced barber brouhaha struck Democratic candidate John Edwards during this past presidential primary season, when it was revealed that his campaign had paid a different high-priced Beverly Hills celebrity stylist, Joseph Torrenueva, $400 to cut Edwards’ hair. That turned out to be a pipsqueak of a scandal compared to “The National Enquirer” catching him cheating on his wife, which, luckily for the Dems, happened way after his campaign closed up shop.

Let’s face facts. These two incidents prove that most American people just don’t think guys should be getting their locks looked after by Beverly Hills prima donnas with their own styling salons. We agree and that’s why we started Kennedy’s All-American Barber Club, a new franchise business that brings back the classic barbershop experience, complete with straight razor shaves, where a man can be a man -and still get as good a cut as any 90210 ninny can provide.

And hey, getting a quality modestly-priced haircut demonstrates a certain moral authority. George W. Bush? Thirty bucks a haircut. Barack Obama? Twenty-one bucks. Has anybody ever caught those guys cheating on their wives? Nope.

Anyway, you can find out more about the Kennedy’s barbershop business and franchise opportunities at http://www.kennedysbarberclub.com. And remember – a Kennedy was president too. Okay, he fell more into the Clinton-Edwards camp than the McCain-Obama one. But his hair always did look awfully good.

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