If you met the man personally, it'd just be another medium. Polticians are good at conning the people they meet personally. Agreeing about that should be something we can all do, regardless of our actual politics, even when we might disagree about which politicians are the best at doing it.

Remember all that stuff about how "likeable" Baby Bush" us - beats me how that can possibly be true, but tastes differ, and it does seems to be what "likeable" means in America today... And Clinton seesm to have magic charms when it comes to pressing the flesh, even if the flesh he chooses to press might sometimes have been chosen more cautiously. And over my side of the Atlantic, I am seriously told by people (different people) that Tony Blair and William Hague have real personal charm.

And none of that has anything to do with how trustworthy they are, or how competant. It's as if people gave people driving licences because they could play the ukelele well.