I'm assuming half of your point is humour and the other is the fact you don't like his glasses.
It is on this second half I'd like to comment.
It shifts the focus on form rather than content.
Sure form has its non-negligible role, but in politics and most domains it should never take precedence over content, the actual message itself.
And here lies one part of the problem Lessig is trying to go after: the corruption of our mind in its ability to be seduced by form at the expense of content.
It is that kind of corruption that makes it possible for movie actors without real political substance to become president.
It is that kind of corruption that makes the present political system a democratic farce.
If we want him to succeed we have to do our part too, and it's precisely because we haven't for ages, that we have such situation today.
Even if he succeeds and changes the rules of the political game, if we the people also don't change the way we think, then this can start all over again in 4 years without us even realizing.
So maybe he could do with another pair of glasses, but we the people also need another pair of glasses.
There's plenty of substance with Lessig. I just am talking about one bit of substance, which is whether he has the pragmatism needed to get and then to do the job or not.
The glasses (which I actually like; not sure where you got your "fact"... but I doubt US voters will) are the form here, to use your word. Not the substance. They are trivial.
So yes, the glasses are not substance. His lack of pragmatism in clinging to them is substance.
It is on this second half I'd like to comment.
It shifts the focus on form rather than content. Sure form has its non-negligible role, but in politics and most domains it should never take precedence over content, the actual message itself. And here lies one part of the problem Lessig is trying to go after: the corruption of our mind in its ability to be seduced by form at the expense of content. It is that kind of corruption that makes it possible for movie actors without real political substance to become president. It is that kind of corruption that makes the present political system a democratic farce.
If we want him to succeed we have to do our part too, and it's precisely because we haven't for ages, that we have such situation today. Even if he succeeds and changes the rules of the political game, if we the people also don't change the way we think, then this can start all over again in 4 years without us even realizing.
So maybe he could do with another pair of glasses, but we the people also need another pair of glasses.
Deal?