Buttongate: Bush’s Shirt

The Political Teen ^ | 9.16.05 | Blogs, et al.

[SquirrelKing]

A lot of liberal bloggers are commenting on this picture. Apparently Bush didn’t button the top button of his shirt in the correct position.

Is it just me or is it a bit hypocritical for Democrats to be commenting on people’s clothes after this:

[SquirrelKing]

ALL FEAR THE NITPICKING MOONBATS!

*snicker*

Some people got nothing better to do...

[satchmodog9]

Shirt is fine. He is just leaning to one side making it look funny. If that's all they have they are done.

[msnimje]

IMBUSH PEACH!!!!!

[doesnt suffer fools gladly]

Liberals are putrid. I also think Bush's button thing is fine. The other side is folded so it gives the appearance of being buttoned wrong. That's how it looks to me anyway.

[thoughtomator]

I don't see anything wrong with the button. The visible button is for the top of the collar.

[WestTexasWend]

That's an optical illusion...the shirt is buttoned correctly.

If it were misbuttoned the pocket would be up around his collarbone.

[doug from upland]

They are just trying to take the heat off SUV-hating Arianna Huffington for being photographed in a Chevy Suburban after being keynote speaker at the Sierra Club summit in San Francisco.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

what is it with their obsssession of Fashion crtics of the Left?

First the Roberts' children, now this. Hilarious.

[concretebob]

between this non-event, and the note he wrote to Dr. Rice about a head call, the lefty's have hit rock bottom,
and we need to start placing fill dirt over the hole they have dug and climbed into.

[My2Cents]

Peach, I think they're after you. ;-)

[SquirrelKing]

That's the general idea. Shoulder tilt, head angle.

If you check out some on the threads you'd think he crapped his pants on camera or something.

[My2Cents]

This from a group of people whose hero wandered around the Oval Office with his pants down.

[JulieRNR21]

Excellent comment below the picture.


Ian, I hate to disappoint the liberal bloggers, but if you really dissect the picture, Bush did NOT mis-button his shirt. Look at the distance between top button and collar edge. His left-shoulder collar is just riding higher than the right. There is nothing amiss in this picture except the liberals’ inherent desire to paint Bush as anything sub-human. His shirt is buttoned just fine.

(The caveat to this is, if the fold at his right collar-bone is deeper than it appears, then I would be wrong. His head is also tilted downward moreso on the right side toward his collar-bone, and his left is extended upward. However, the fact that libs are focusing on this as well as the fact that our President ACTUALLY uses the bathroom only proves how desperate they are to disparage him!.. Buttons? Bathroom-breaks? The Left accuses him of thinking he is a Superhero, acting “unilaterally,” but when he indicates he needs to exercise a normal human bodily function, it actually makes him un-presidential? As John Stossel would say “Gimme a break!”)

Comment by LadyCop212 — September 17, 2005 @ 2:07 am

[digger48]

Yes, I'm sure he dressed himself and nobody had a chance to check him to see if his shirt was buttoned crooked before he went on Prime Time to give one of the most important speeches of his career.

[tonyinv]

that is great!!!!

[1rudeboy]

What I don't understand, is why politicians don't wear Oxfords. Is it some sort of anti-elitist thing?

[txrangerette]

The shirt is perfectly buttoned. I for the life of me don't see what they are talking about. However, it sounds to me like the Liberal Moonbats must be leaning too far to one side and their view of how his shirt is buttoned is distorted.

[Theresawithanh]

Oooh, and look at his chin, it looks like a bruise, maybe from an ashtray thrown at him by Laura? Oooh, oooh...

You don't have to be stupid to be a liberal blogger, but it helps!

[skr]

It's too late for them to get a life--they wouldn't know what to do with it.

[Mo1]

Apparently Bush didn’t button the top button of his shirt in the correct position.

OMG .. STOP THE PRESSES!!!

THE COUNTRY IS DOOM!!!

Can ya see me rolling my eyes??

[frankjr]

Now here is a snappy dresser...

[billnaz]

Considering the way Cindy and her flaming moonbats were dressed in Crawford, the looney-tunes lefties are hardly ones to appoint themselves fashion police.

Is this the only thing they can come up with? It must really suck to be a liberal these days.

[upchuck]

C'mon folks! He ain't out riding his bike around the ranch. This was a prime time speech to the nation. Do you honestly think his handlers would let him go on nationwide, live TV with his shirt buttoned crooked? Gimme a beak!

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Hey guys! Are you sure these ridiculous "hit "pieces on Bush aren't being put out there by Rove? Ha. Would that be funny! Rove releases the "shirt button" comment sureptitiously and suddenly the Left goes crazy for it! then he and the President sit back, have some popcorn and watch the movie roll out!

[Paleo Conservative]

It's too late for them to get a life--they wouldn't know what to do with it.

Wrong. They know exactly what they'd do with it.
They'd abort it!

[spinestein]

[Apparently Bush didn’t button the top button of his shirt in the correct position.]


HE DIDN'T?!!

HOLY F****** S***!!!

NOW I REALLY WISH WE HAD JOHN F***** KERRY IN THE WHITE HOUSE!

AT LEAST HE WOULD HAVE BUTTONED HIS F***** SHIRT PROPERLY!!!!






(Do you think my sarcasm will be understood and appreciated by any DUnderheads lurking here? I don't either.)

[Mo1]

Gee ... nice pic of Arianna in one huge SUV

What a hypocrite!

[I see my hands]

I've got to say.. I'm done laughing.
The left has to go down.

[Zacs Mom]

Those poor morons..........the law of averages would make a person think they would get something right sooner or later....

Any fool (but apparently not EVERY fool) can clearly see that the President's shirt was not buttoned "wrong" ......

..the top button of the shirt was merely unbuttoned!

[SquirrelKing]

Good shot, Doug. The ol' plank-in-the-eye.

Even some of the HuffPo commenters are pondering the bad crack the poster has partaken of.

[spinestein]

Who the heck is the dork in that picture?

[msnimje]

I hate to state the obvious, but anybody with an IQ of 65 can tell the left side is tucked or folded in a bit on itself.

[SquirrelKing]

Ping.

Photo fun

[msnimje]

"Button, button, who has the button? "

Nice find on the photo, I was looking for one.

[frankjr]

"Who the heck is the dork in that picture?"

I assume you are kidding. But if not...

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/06/07/yale_grades_portray_kerry_as_a_lackluster_student/

[pollyannaish]

Oh man. And I thought this was going to be the big one that took him down.

[SquirrelKing]

Oh, it gets better:

THEY HAVE DIAGRAMS!

We're through the looking glass here, people...

[msnimje]

Meanwhile, over at DU....

[Perdogg]

It looks like a new shirt. It looks a Geoffrey Beene.

[SquirrelKing]

NOW I REALLY WISH WE HAD JOHN F***** KERRY IN THE WHITE HOUSE!

AT LEAST HE WOULD HAVE BUTTONED HIS F***** SHIRT PROPERLY!!!!

MY KINGDOM FOR A BUTTON!!!

[Colonial Warrior]

Only the looney left morons who must peek out from their own fly could possibly make such a comment.

How they can take pictures and write stories with all the flies buzzing around them is a wonder.

[Mr. Mojo]

That fact that these lunatics are obsessing about such matters as how the President buttons his shirt and (photoshopped) notes about him wanting to use the bathroom is a very good sign.

It's all they have.

[skr]

You're right. Amended--they wouldn't know how to live it.

[frankjr]

Actually that diagram helps to show that the shirt was buttoned properly...unless leftist shirts only have one inch of space between the top collar button and the next button down.

Plus it's hard to put a button through a crease. A hole works much better.

[BIGLOOK]

The buttons are fine, the shirt's fine too considering he's wearing a vest beneath it.

[SquirrelKing]

Ping

[concretebob]

Let's not forget that W went on to Hawvawd, and obtained an MBA.
What else did JF'nKerry do?Oh lawyer..yeah..thats right, he's a stinkin'wawryer.

[FreedomCalls]

[concretebob]

with the libs, it's called an octaganol delusion.

[kingu]

This is it! This is what will take down Bush! They'll be sure to impeach him! < /end DUmmie simulation.. >

Whatever. You know, you have to be pretty pathetic to have this be the highlight of your political day.

Oh, and for DUmmies reading this.. Roberts, confirmation, plus Bush gets another pick.. Maybe more, still early in the second term. Enjoy your buttongate. Losers.