**Trust me on this** Editorial in today's Los Angeles Times...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

Several years ago, I wrote a story for GQ magazine in which I admitted that there were certain public figures I disliked because I could not stand looking at their faces. The smirking Pat Robertson, Jimmy Carter and his paste-on grin and the perennially pouting Boston Celtics guard Danny Ainge (now the team's general manager) all fell into this category, as did the truculent scamp Pete Rose and the smarmy Paul McCartney.

Despite its juvenile premise, the article had a serious subtext. It was a plea for the public to stop pretending that they disliked public figures because of their values or attitudes and admit that, in many cases, they simply couldn't stand the sight of them. For example, the reason so many young people view John Tesh as an emissary of Satan is not because of his appalling New Age music. It's because he looks like Prince Charming, the lantern-jawed ninny in "Shrek."


More at link...

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-queenan23dec23,0,3252739.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail

Worth reading, IMHO, since there have so many discussions of trustworthiness here, recently...

[sandnsea]

1. snake oil salesman, mobbed up, muslim

I guess the writer just doesn't pay attention to the people who express their lack of trust of the other candidates.

When people can't stand the sight of someone, it's because there's an underlying character flaw that makes their skin crawl. Haughtiness, judgmentalness, rudeness, cockiness, or just plain old crookedness which is called untrustworthy in polite society.

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. Sadly, this means that many voters aren't able to perceive and take heed of such internal traits.