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The hairstyle also reveals a person worried about relinquishing control.
by Alex in Toulouse on Tue Oct 3rd, 2006 at 04:35:19 PM EST
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Wow. Then...

Then all fifty-plus conservative men in politics are worried about keeping control?

No? Every single politician? Yep, I think you're right!

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Oct 3rd, 2006 at 04:45:43 PM EST
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hehe
What's more his hair is cumbed to the right. A clear clue, I'd say.
by Alex in Toulouse on Tue Oct 3rd, 2006 at 04:49:51 PM EST
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Geez, you guys are scary. I'm never going to post another picture of myself on the site...

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Oct 3rd, 2006 at 05:14:48 PM EST
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Wait, we haven't told you what we think about that double-chin of yours!
by Alex in Toulouse on Tue Oct 3rd, 2006 at 05:33:21 PM EST
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Okay, here is the solution. Pictured is József Torgyán, onetime leader of the now defunct Smallholders' Party.

The party was a reincarnation of the party that won the first and last free elections after WWII (before the communist takeover), a socially conservative but economically redistributive party with the slogan "Bort, búzát, békességet!" = "Let there be wine, wheat, peacefulness" (hence the cutting of the bread at the election event). But it was soon hijacked and turned a single-person party by Torgyán.

If Tarlós is a black-belt populist, Torgyán was a grand master or even god. A privately highly intelligent attorney from the capital, he had a special gift to pretend to be a fiery rural simpleton, and work his (mostly truly rural simpleton) audience into a frenzy. His remembered wisecracks are innumerable (called "torgyániáda"). He was also very vain, with a funny sense of dres code and hairdo.

For about a year in the 1994-1998 period, his party even led opinion polls... then with growing scandals of his party, which also caused it to multiply by cell division, he fell back. Still he could join Fidesz's government in 1998. But Orbán was even more gifted at demagoguery and intrigue than him: he let Torgyán sink in some corruption affairs, and finished off his party by accelerating the cell division.

Being unable to live without publicity, a year or two ago, Torgyán resurfaced -- as permanent talk show guest...

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Wed Oct 4th, 2006 at 07:40:51 AM EST
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