When I saw the photos of Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf on television earlier this week in the midst of issuing his resignation, apparently just ahead of impeachment charges, it was pretty clear to me that my great-grandfather would not have liked him. Not because of his alleged crimes described by an opponent as being “against the nation, against the judiciary, against democracy and against rule of law in the country that cannot be forgiven by any party or individual.”
No, my great-grandfather, were he still alive and had he seen the photo I did, would have immediately made his mind up about Musharraf. Had he been consulted by the State Department, had someone traveled to the front porch of his south Alabama log cabin farm house, sat on the front porch, shown him a hoto of Pakistan’s leader and said “Can we trust him” my great-grandfather would have said “no,”
See, my great-grandfather did not like men who parted their hair in the middle.
According to my grandfather, his father “did not allow was his boys to part their hair in the middle and he did not want his girls to go with a boy that parted his hair in the middle. He said that you just could not trust a man that parted his hair in the middle. He said that a boy that parted his hair in the middle would steal.”
If seeing into the heart was that easy, as easy as looking at ones grooming choices.