14 Photographs That Shatter Your Image of Famous People: #12. Young Bill Clinton

[wyldwolf]

Tell me that man's beard is not full of Cheetos dust. That is an early 1970s Bill Clinton in his Yale days, with Hillary. Only I'm 99 percent sure that nobody called him "Bill" back then. No, a guy like that would have a nickname like "Meat" or "Boner" or "The Dude." Seriously, tell me you can find any difference between the future president in the above photo and Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski.

Both of them look like the kind of man who would interrupt a night of desperate last-minute cramming with "Dude, put down the book, I just had the best idea. It's gonna make us all rich, man. Now, just hear me out, OK? What if you could make a taco shell out of Doritos?"

http://www.cracked.com/blog/14-photographs-that-shatter-your-image-famous-people/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Just the opposite: I think I like him more now.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

3. Me too.

I freaking love that picture!

[RandySF]

9. Even Rick Santorum seemed nicer in those days.

[yellowcanine]

2. This image is at odds with the one of him with the Chevy El Camino with astroturf in the bed.

President Bill Clinton reportedly owned a 1970 El Camino at one time. Speaking to a group of GM employees, Clinton joked, "It had astro-turf in the back. I don't want to tell you what the astro-turf was for.".

[Ganja Ninja]

4. Didn't inhale my ass!

[uponit7771]

10. +1

[yellowcanine]

5. Check out the young Mr. Rogers

Who knew that Mr. Rogers had attitude?
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[Bolo Boffin]

38. WHAT?

There's something else going on there. That's funny, but I have to believe this is cluelessness and not attitude.

ETA: OK, read the article and then went to YouTube. It's just a kid's song.

But that totally rocks. WE'LL DO IT LIVE.

[yellowcanine]

39. Yes he was playing a counting game. But still quite funny.

[frazzled]

6. I don't remember anyone calling anyone "dude" in those days

Sure, Mott the Hoople's version of David Bowie's "All the Young Dudes" appeared in 1972; but I still don't remember "dude" as a term of address. It was "man."

Everyone looked like that in the late 1960s and early 1970s. And then anyone outside the backwaters stopped looking like that. This picture of Clinton is totally normal for the times.

[EFerrari]

7. Plus there were no Doritos yet or pre-fab taco shells.

All of my friends had long hair and about half of them had beards, too.

[wyldwolf]

12. "Doritos" were released nationwide in 1966. Taco Bell had over 300 locations in 1970.

[EFerrari]

16. I thought Doritos were younger than that. Taco Bell is about right

but I meant shells that you fill at home.

[wyldwolf]

17. I figured that's what you meant but the article author made no distinction of what kind of shells...

... still, I remember having Tacos for my school lunch in 1973-74 in Macon, GA.

Old El Paso began mass-producing their products in 1969-1970.

[csziggy]

27. My husband STILL has long hair and a beard.

Has had them almost continuously since his Mom stood up for his right to have long hair in 1967 when the school authorities tried to make him get it cut. He has been short haired and clean shaven on two occasions since then - when he went to court and when he was looking for a job.

But then we're both just old hippie wanna-bes.

[hifiguy]

13. That pic of Clinton is far more representative of the times

than the one of Willard in his white slacks protesting for the VN war while skipping out of the draft to go and pester French people.

[RandySF]

8. He used to have an afro.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

11. Bill Clinton is a helluva lot smarter and better looking than Jeff Bridges.

Amazing that he is a ginger!!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

14. "...and better looking than Jeff Bridges."

Uh. No.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

18. ever seen Bill Clinton in person?

I saw him 3 times live in 1992 when he was running for President the first time.

He is a force of nature.

He has absolutely blinding charisma.

He turned me into a blithering idiot while he was speaking...he could have been reading the phonebook for all I cared. All I could do was go blub blub blah...couldn't think, just wanted to follow him around like a few million other women did.
You would think I had been hit in the head with a 2 x 4. I saw exactly why women chase him and felt it myself.

i've never seen anyone else with that much charisma, and I've seen a lot of musical performers and speakers in my life.

[xxqqqzme]

21. Agree - Clinton's charisma.

I was about 10 rows away from him and it just washed over the crowd. The only other politician I have ever seen w/ that much charisma was - don't tell anyone I said this - reagan. I kicked myself in the ass for actually feeling nice toward him.

[hifiguy]

29. Years ago I met a guy that did some advance work

for Big Dawg in '92 and he said exactly the same thing. He said Clinton absolutely filled every room he entered with sheer, almost physically tangible magnetism and could make every person he shook hands with feel like they were the only person in the world he cared about. It's a gift.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

30. I have seen Bill Clinton in person -

during his first run for President. Up close and personal. I agree that he has charisma. I didn't want to fuck him, though, I just wanted him to run the country. Besides, any potential sexual in interest in him was shot down when I read about him inserting a cigar into Monica Lewinsky's vagina.

Jeff Bridges. Handsome AND a class act.

[pnwest]

15. great article, thx fir posting!

[aquart]

19. Student normal to me.

[DevonRex]

20. Mr. Rogers and Josef Stalin were hotties. Who knew?

And I'd always take Jeff Bridges over Bill Clinton, but Clinton had charisma even back in college. Anyone who can't see that in the college photo needs to look a wee bit closer.

[sufrommich]

22. Joseph Stalin was smokin' hot. Of course, the

fact that he became a murderous dictator kind of ruins it.

[Blue_In_AK]

25. Yup, my assessment, as well. :)

[enough]

23. Funny that somebody thinks that look is suprising. They both look just like a million other

educated, smart, ambitious, optimistic young people of that generation. If anything, they were on the conservative end of the looks spectrum of the time. Nothing far out or outrageous at all.

Nice to see that youthful smile back on Hilary's face these days.

[sufrommich]

26. They both look like they could have been extras

cast in "The Paper Chase".

[Blue_In_AK]

24. Young Josef Stalin was a hottie.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

31. I know, who knew???

I could totally see him as a beatnik. A coffee house, a guitar, a bevy of Mary Travers surrounding him.

[Blue_In_AK]

34. Exactly! That was my thought, too.

He reminded me of some of those cute SDS guys I knew in college.

[snagglepuss]

33. I was truly shocked by the transformation of Stalin. Never in a million years

would I have imagined those were the same man.

[RZM]

37. There are two distinguishing phyisical characteristics of his that are not visible in the picture

One is his pockmarked face, which was a consequence of his contracting of smallpox as a child. The other was his somewhat deformed arm (I forget which - I think the left), which resulted from a carriage accident that also occurred in his childhood.

So that picture is perhaps a bit flattering.

[Iris]

28. The Hitler pics make me want to vomit

but the Michael Jordan pics? Hilarious!

[trumad]

32. Love this one.

Eminem

?

[bigtree]

35. absolutely love that pic

what was your question/point again?

[Control-Z]

36. Young Bill has on

Pants. Not Shorts. Lol.

"Seriously, tell me you can find any difference between the future president in the above photo and Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski."

I was (actually, legally still am) married to a Big Lebowski. Not only did he wear the same clothes and have the attitude (sans hair and beard), he looked like Jeff Bridges. Other actors have mistaken him for Bridges in the past, waving at him in passing, calling him Jeff. I thought he looked more like Nick Nolte (Pre drunken stupors/arrests.) Of course, I had to look at his face every day and got to hate him pretty well, so that may have something to do with it. Now he just looks like a big ugly dog.