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82_28 » Fri Aug 29, 2014 2:22 am wrote:I guess I wasn't the only one.
http://www.eonline.com/news/574277/pres ... net-reacts
The "tan suit" stood out to me. I was earlier trying to "explain" it. I can't explain it. There has to be a reason for the change in presidential motif.
This could be it as far as what you are saying, 8bit.
Though Obama plays the role of a weak, indecisive, liberal president, and while pundits from the right have had a lot of fun with that image, this is just a facade. Some presidents, like George W. Bush, rely primarily on overt military aggression. Obama gets the same job done, but he prefers covert means. Not really surprising considering the fact that Zbigniew Brzezinski was his mentor.
82_28 » Fri Aug 29, 2014 2:22 am wrote:I guess I wasn't the only one.
http://www.eonline.com/news/574277/pres ... net-reacts
The "tan suit" stood out to me. I was earlier trying to "explain" it. I can't explain it. There has to be a reason for the change in presidential motif.
This could be it as far as what you are saying, 8bit.
freemason9 » Fri Aug 29, 2014 10:19 pm wrote:He doesn't give a shit anymore . . . extreme fatigue, and disenchantment. He grew up and matured in a much different environment, full of encouragement and adoration. That disappeared the moment he was elected, and he's been in foreign territory ever since.
I don't blame him for coasting out. He doesn't owe anyone at this point; he's taken enough shots, and this country is kidding itself if it thinks it can be anything besides a slave society.
stillrobertpaulsen » Fri Aug 29, 2014 4:51 pm wrote:82_28 » Fri Aug 29, 2014 2:22 am wrote:I guess I wasn't the only one.
I've seen that tan look on "weak" Democratic presidents before.
Tan suits are the new tan cardigans?
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Not since John Kennedy posed boldly in a two-button coat, defying decades of three-button tradition, has a suit of clothes gained such worldwide attention as the blue-and-gray glen plaid outfit that Ronald Reagan wore to Europe. It jangled the eyes of television producers on two continents and offended the artistic sensibilities of still cameramen. "Can't you get him out of that suit" pleaded one photographer. White House aides feared that it had the whiff of the $2 window at a race track. Foreign functionaries, noting the swaths of plain blue and gray cloaking the ample figures of the other summiteers, looked politely pained when they saw Reagan's cheery plaid clashing with a red carpet or the faded elegance of Versailles.
When the folks back home opened up their magazines to pictures of the summit, the Reagan suit hit them in the eye like an errant thumb. One reader phoned Washington to ask if the suit had deeper diplomatic significance. Cocktail parties on both coasts pondered Reagan's sartorial splendor.
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IanEye » Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:44 pm wrote:
And life is grand
And I will say this at the risk of falling from favour
With those of you who have appointed yourselves
To expect us to say something darker....
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