DEBATE

I watched tonight and was struck by one thing. John McCain is really short. This doesn't matter whatsoever. He' s a tougher son of a bitch than I could ever be. If I were at the Hanoi Hilton I'd be looking for the pillow concierge, so don't get me wrong. I'm not saying this to say it matters. It's just what I kept noticing. His height is listed as 5' 7". I've read both that Obama is 6' even and 6' 1". Obama looks much taller. I don't know if that's because he's standing next to McCain or if it is because he is so scrawny. Vern Troyer is still pissed that he was closed out of the debate and I agree it would have helped McCain had he been included.

Anyway, it got me wondering, so I did a little research and according to www.heightsite.com there were only three U.S. presidents shorter than John McCain. James Madison, Benjamin Harrison and Martin Van Buren. Madison was the shortest at 5' 4". The same site claims the four tallest U.S. presidents were Thomas Jefferson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Abraham Lincoln and William Jefferson Clinton. If you were to look at tallest U.S. presidents without a constant erection it would be Thomas Jefferson, Lyndon B. Johnson and Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln being the tallest at 6' 4".

Does it matter in getting elected? According to a strange wikipedia article, in elections where we knew the candidates heights, 25 times the taller candidate won, but 18 times the shorter candidate won. 3 of those 18 times though, the taller candidate won the popular vote but lost in the electoral college. So who knows.

Here's the full list. And again, yes, of COURSE I know it doesn't matter. What really matters this election year is that Sarah Palin has a nice ass.


5ft4 James Madison

5ft6 Benjamin Harrison, Martin Van Buren

5ft7 John Quincy Adams, John Adams, William McKinley

5ft8 Ulysses S. Grant, William H. Harrison, James Polk, Zachary Taylor

5ft8.5 Rutherford Hayes

5ft9 Millard Fillmore, Harry S. Truman

5ft9.5 Jimmy Carter

5ft10 Calvin Coolidge, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, Theodore Roosevelt

5ft10.5 Dwight D. Eisenhower

5ft11 George W. Bush, Grover Cleveland, Herbert Hoover, Woodrow Wilson

5ft11.5 Richard Nixon

6ft James Buchanan, Gerald R. Ford, James Garfield, Warren Harding, John F. Kennedy, James Monroe, William H. Taft, John Tyler

6ft1 Andrew Jackson, Ronald Reagan

6ft2 Chester Arthur, George Bush, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Washington

6ft2.5 Bill Clinton, Thomas Jefferson

6ft3Lyndon B. Johnson

6ft4Abraham Lincoln