Can you just see it? Hillary Clinton stumping across the United States wearing Greg Raymer’s lizard-eyed hologram sunglasses? Sure, J.J. Liu tried it out, so we know what a woman would look like wearing them, but Clinton?
The idea comes from Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report. Colbert had on that university professor who has been organizing intercollegiate poker matches (no, they don’t have cheerleaders. They should, but they don’t) as part of his Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society. Harvard Law School Professor Charles Nesson came on the show and threw down the gauntlet to the US Presidential Candidates, saying they need to have poker game to prove who has the best brain for skill and strategy.
Colbert warmed to the idea, saying “I can just see Hillary with the sunglasses with the little snake eyes on them”. What seems like a throw-away idea might have some merit. With pocket cams showing their hole cards we would learn which of the candidates were the best bluffers, which would play poker like a donkey, the level of fiscal conservatism and risk tolerance.
Plus they would probably all play horribly and we could feel superior.