For Young President, Flecks of Gray (NY Times Just noticed?)

NY Times ^ | March 5, 1993 | Helene Cooper

[jilliane]

Well, that didn’t take long. Just 44 days into the job, and President Obama is going gray.

[jilliane]

How observant, Helene...only took you 5 months to notice. Time to break out old jokes about the gray I guess.

[Crawdad]

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[Mr. K]

WOW! This is hard-hitting investigative reporting!

[mosaicwolf]

The gradual gray is only strategy for the second term folks.

[Jagman]

The gray lady once again stoops to douche-baggery in support of Barry—and on the front page no less!

[Doogle]

big deal, I started getting gray at 19...the remaining gray
is fighting hard to stay relevant...but in the end, I don't give an Obama....nothing like a guy who's so vain as to wear what appears to be a falcons nest on his head to look “normal”

[cartervt2k]

Wow, thanks NY Times!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

The gray is a dye job.

Obama would have to care to be graying naturally at this pace.

[a real Sheila]

I’ve determined that EVERY move, every look, every word by this administration is well planned and orchestrated. Some “image” consultant has decided that he needs a few flecks of gray to be taken more seriously. You can BET on it.
The fact that he has sprouted so much gray so quickly is suspect. He probably had it awhile and was covering it and then was suddenly told to quit hiding it.

[Doogle]

your right, it's about time for a “trip” to Hawaii to refresh, some photo opts, and to check on the concrete covering his birth records. The more heat he gets he gets happy feet and has to get out of the spot light

[jilliane]

His fake gray was observed back in Sept. '08 on FR. I noticed his sudden change of appearance and posted the photo above...

So, is he less gray now than he was?

[a real Sheila]

check on the concrete covering his birth records

HILARIOUS, but probably true as well!

[LS]

Obama will age in office faster than anyone in history, because he really doesn't LIKE actually BEING president. He's already had to clear out of Washington three or four times because he needs to "get away." It's too much like a real job. This is a man who was NEVER at either of his elected positions more than a fraction of the time.

He's worse than Clinton when it comes to loving the campaign, but hating the actual governing. In part (along with his socialist worldview), I think that's why he's trying to get all this stuff done so quickly. Perhaps he thinks if it all gets passed, he can then go to Hawaii and hang out for three years.

[bgill]

Of course he’s going grey. For the first time in his life, he’s come up against people who aren’t stroking his ego.

[Edgewood Pilot]

Obama is not a leader or a statesman.

We saw this before the election and we saw it now.

The media packaged him nice.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

he’s an agitator who now finds himself in the driver’s seat.

[reformedliberal]

While I am old enough to be his mother and while I still refer to my 44-year-old and his wife as *the kids*, 48 isn’t all that young. People I know think of themselves as *almost 50* at that age, as did I.

I hope zerO is losing sleep, experiencing anxiety and racked by fear. Why should he be any different from the rest of us?

I began by disliking him, intensely. Now, I hate him (and Congress) for ruining my country, limiting everyone’s options and forcing all of us into this pervasive position of insecurity. Not stroking his ego? This man is totally despised by everyone I know and most of those I meet.

[garyhope]

It’s not the gray part of Obambi that I worry about, it’s the RED part.

And I don’t mean the Republican red that we got stuck with.

[longtermmemmory]

they are using the gray to give obama the maturity he utterly lacks.

seriously stacked against rush, obama has come out looking very very small.

the grey is to imply don’t pick on the old man.

[jilliane]

page 1 story...7 months after he turned gray overnight in August 2008???