Seriously though, other than giving me a chance to snark, this is one of many examples I can cite of an immaculately dressed Bush doing something completely unprofessional and abhorrent. How much worse would it have been if he weren’t wearing a tie when he groped the Chancellor? Do you think it would have been as bad if Bush had refused to wear a tie during that meeting but otherwise acted like the consumate statesman?
In other words, do actions speak louder than suitjackets?
OK, wow, I probably should have read page two of this thread before posting. I can’t believe at least two other people immediately came up with the same example I did.
Just wanted to quote this, because…seriously. Given that this is a guy who is firmly convinced that hippies destroyed America, who even tries to respond to him rationally anymore?
Thanks. I saw one of these in the store the other day but didn’t make note of the name.
I was reading the hilarious comments on that Huffington Post page, and someone mentioned that Anderson Cooper said on air that he could find no picture of Bush, or any other president, working in the Oval Office in his shortsleeves.
Yet, Huffington Post had this slideshow up within hours. Come on, really, what kind of crack research team does Anderson Cooper have anyway?
I don’t watch TV, but I’m getting that the whine by Card got a lot of media play. I’m curious if any of these media outlets will do a followup showing these pictures of Bush and Reagan, or if Card’s bullshit will just be allowed to stand without refute. Because I’m sure that, unlike Starving Artist, Card will never apologize or say he was mistaken.
So, if he dressed in a suit and tie, he’s trying too hard one way (or looks like a servant) and if, as he has only done so far, he takes off his jacket and/or goes without a tie he’s trying too hard the other way.
I for one am tired of the umpteen Pit threads piling up about dress codes. I mean, what with all the people banned for going over the line in GD in dress code debate threads, I don’t see why the whole subject shouldn’t be banned altogether. The inevitable enormous trainwrecks really aren’t worth it.
When Obama walks up behind Angela Merkel wearing spandex shorts and flip-flops with white socks a Cat-in-the-Hat chapeau and tries to give her a shoulder massage at a state affair then I’ll know how to decide one way or another whether his sartorial style indicates that he knows how to comport himself with dignity and gravitas in front of other world leaders and the world.
I seem to have clothes blindness most of the time. I generally don’t see, and don’t care, what anyone else is wearing. I care what they do and, to a lesser extent, what they say.
Not only that, Carrot, but if Colin Powell had absolutely nothing to contribute to the meeting, surely he shouldn’t have been invited: there had to have been more important things he should have done with his time than cool his heels in Bush’s office.
No matter how I look at it, it comes off as the small-minded petty actions of a President for whom large complicated things are beyond his mental grasp, so he inflates the importance of the inconsequential.
You do know that Darth Vader wasn’t actually black, right? Regardless of what you may have been led to believe, black people aren’t born with plastic body armor. James Earl Jones just did the voiceovers.
Seems to me the real contempt shouldn’t be for Card, who’s just ignorantly shooting his mouth off (a blessing of liberty all free men should enjoy), but with any reporter who didn’t give the statement the ridicule it deserved.
