You know, I used to think that comments about "inner beauty" were bullshit.

[LuckyCharms]

I've changed my way of thinking.

A person who is not physically attractive in the traditional sense can become very beautiful in my eyes if they are a truly good and caring person. What I mean is...their superficial looks actually become attractive.

On the other side of the coin, "attractive" people become horribly ugly if they are shit people.

Melania? Can't look at her without getting sick. I find no beauty in her physical appearance.

Sarah Sanders? I don't think she is horrible looking, but I don't think she is attractive either. Knowing what I know about her though, she is one of the ugliest people in the world.

Trump? Forget about it.

Obama? All around beautiful man.

Bernie Sanders? Probably not what most people would call "attractive", but his fighting spirit makes him so.

Funny how that works. I would not have thought this way as a younger person, and that is my fault.

[Ohiogal]

1. It IS funny how that works

I pity the folks that never come to this realization.

Very wise comment!

[smirkymonkey]

2. I completely agree with you. I think most of the republicans are hideous people, especially Trump

because they are so rotten to the core and ugly inside. However I have known some wonderful, intelligent, funny people both men and women, that I have considered to be very attractive (who probably weren't objectively physically attractive) because they were such great all-around people. It didn't matter if they were a bit overweight or not perfectly attractive, but there was something about them that shone from within because of who they were. There really is something to the saying that "beauty is on the inside".

[LakeArenal]

3. "Looks" are very superficial and easily changed by science...

Heart, thought, reason, all on the inside.. When it shines through, it becomes the real beauty.

[treestar]

4. Jane Austen observed

or had a character do, that "there is no personal defect that an agreeable manner" will not overcome something like that. If you are kind and well mannered, no matter what you look like, people will see your best qualities. And vice versa. I agree about Melodrama. Her eyes are oddly shaped, which, if she were a kind person, would not matter one bit. But you tend to notice what you can see as a flaw if you think the person is so vacuous that in marrying for money, they chose the Orangutan.

[wishstar]

5. I always believed in inner beauty, because my mother was never "pretty"

but she was so warm and funny and kind and generous that everyone wanted to be around her. She was sensitive about her prominent nose so she was glad when Barbra Streisand became popular. My mom could sing beautifully too. My Dad was handsome and smart, resembling Tyrone Power and could have had his pick of beautiful women, but her personality attracted him. Growing up, I had many conventionally beautiful neighbors and relatives, but none of them were as likeable as my Mom. Mom was relieved that my brother and I physically took after Dad, but we could never come close to having her wonderful charm and humor.

One of Mom's favorite sayings was "handsome is as handsome does"

[The_jackalope]

6. Indeed. I don't normally look to political figures for inner beauty, though.

On a personal level though, I have a short story about that. Indulge me for a minute?

I first met my last wife at a party in 1972. She was a twenty year old drop-dead Hungarian beauty. We became friends, and I never noticed her beauty after that. I was too enthralled with what was inside her. We were besties for a decade, then married others and lost each other for 30 years.

When we reconnected on Facebook, she had no photos of herself posted. She declined to send me any recent ones, either. Didn't matter. We fell in love by telephone. I flew down to LA to see her again. I was waiting in the loading zone at LAX when she pulled in.

She was completely unrecognizable. Her face and her body had been devastated by a bad encounter with Prednisone. Her once-thick hair was thin. Her high cheekbones were lost in the steroid moon-face. She had gained about 200 lb. Her knees were both gimpy. None of it mattered. She climbed out of the car and smiled at me, and the rest of the world just vanished. We kissed hello for about ten minutes there in the loading zone, and all the bystanders were grinning at us like fools. We spent the next week together, and I've never seen a more beautiful woman in my life. Soulmates are like that.

I brought her home, and we spent the last seven years together until she died of cancer in September. Her inner beauty kept blossoming as her body faded out, right until the very end.

She was no Melania, in any sense of the word.

[Hekate]

10. That is lovely...

[LuckyCharms]

11. I love this!

[BigmanPigman]

7. Don't forget the other saying..."Beauty is in

the eye of the beholder". The GOP may really believe the people that we find repulsive as Dems are truly beautiful since they represent what they value and admire in another person.

[HipChick]

8. The way my dad still looks at my mum..

60+ years of love and adoration.....

Inner beauty..yes...

[lunamagica]

9. Hillary is an all around beautiful lady