During a press conference in Chicago Obama made a couple jokes about Richardson's missing beard saying among other things: ""I thought that whole western rugged look was really working for him.
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WASHINGTON -- Bill Richardson had the first
close shave of his tenure as Barack Obama's commerce secretary Wednesday --
becoming the butt of the US
president-elect's razor-sharp jokes about his missing beard.
Richardson was asked why he had dispensed
with the facial hair which helped him cut an imposing figure through a string
of election-year campaign appearances, as Obama made his nomination official
here.
"I'm
going to answer this question about the beard -- I think it was a mistake for
him to get rid of it," Obama said.
"I
thought that whole western rugged look was really working for him.
"For
some reason, maybe because it was scratchy when he kissed his wife, he was
forced to get rid of it -- but we're deeply disappointed with the loss of the
beard."
Richardson was nominated to be commerce
secretary after being passed over for the post of secretary of state which
Obama gave to another former Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.
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