Flashback to when our politicians had a prettier side

With Debbie Simon

We’re hip-deep in election season, and whether it’s presidential candidates tossing around threats and insults or state politicians resorting to mud-slinging and over-the-top ad campaigns, things have already started to get pretty ugly.

So we decided to take this opportunity to bring you a Flashback Friday post with a bit of a political theme. Here’s a look at a few prominent figures when they were still young and pretty, before the ugliness of politics had chance to wear them down:

Hillary Clinton

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/us/politics/for-paul-and-janna-ryan-a-union-across-political-lines.html?_r=0

Donald Trump

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/us/politics/for-paul-and-janna-ryan-a-union-across-political-lines.html?_r=0

Barack Obama

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2159856/How-President-Obama-decided-black-obsessively-listened-Bob-Marley-called-Oreo-black-students-university.html

Paul Ryan

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Source: http://time.com/3714172/ruth-bader-ginsburg-young-photos/

Joe Biden

Source : http://www.thefrisky.com/2014-08-01/vice-president-joe-biden-celebrated-throwbackthursday-by-posting-this-seriously-bangable-photo-from-his-youth/

Mitt Romney

Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/50-photographs-of-mitt-romney-as-a-young-man?utm_term=.dhqydXK4v#.obWYLmOpo

Nancy Pelosi

Source: http://izismile.com/2011/08/24/famous_celebrities_when_they_were_young_31_pics-24.html

Marco Rubio

Source: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/04/young-marco-rubio-stuns-media-with-his-charisma.html

Elizabeth Warren

Source: http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/us_politics/2011/11/elizabeth_warren_shows_softer_side_new_ad

Cory Booker

Source: https://twitter.com/TajMagruder/status/482355274510893056/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw