Posted on 09/30/2019 3:31:11 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
44's wardrobe passes the litmus test for a third term
Heads were scratched when George W. Bush rode to a second term in 2004. Despite Iraq, and despite having the linguistic capability of a GCSE creative writing class, the 43rd president clung onto another four years. That's because, allegedly, he was the man most voters would prefer to have a beer with: 57 percent of them according to a Zogby/Williams poll in the autumn of that year. And though his time in the White House is up, Barack Obama is still dressing the part of post-office beer buddy, too.
At Munich's Bits & Pretzels Founders Festival, number 44 opened proceedings in a suit that wouldn't look out of place on the campaign trail. Comfortable yet slimline suit, a quietly classic watch and, of course, no tie. Nobody can enjoy an exchange with their CEO in the boardroom. But at the pub, sans neckwear, he's just like you and I! Who'd have thought it?!
Or at least that's the intention. When Obama (and indeed, the small army of 2020 candidates) gets stuck in with the normal folk, it's sleeves up, tie off, smiles on. Normality is a much-valued commodity. When in such situations, the former president dresses like a natural in Normal Mode.
It serves as a stark contrast to Donald Trump. Whether in the White House, or headlining a rally in Wyoming, the current president rarely loses the billowing power suit. Trump never relaxes the code for one-on-one mode; the CEO is never dressed for Friday beers. Instead, 45 is usually stood aloft a crowd, businessman garb in full gear, the Eighties management hierarchy firmly in place.
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Esquire is still published ?
Who knew ?
You practically never see Trump without a tie and suit.
He never has put his feet up on the oval office desk, so far as we know.
Never has been seen in Mom Jeans.
How is Obama more presidential in his attire?
I’d love to have a few Guinness with Trump while he drinks a soda.
“These are the FREAKS who vote for a president because of the way he dresses...UNBELIEVABLE.”
Wrong. They voted for Obama because he was black. They had to prove they weren’t racist.
Yep - and everyone knows that the well-off homosexuals tend to spiff up more than actual alpha-male men...
Leg humping writer
Too bad his wife has to dress at Munich Tent & Awning.
More “Forever First Family” faggotry.
>>the CEO is never dressed for Friday beers.
Donald Trump doesn’t drink. Or do cocaine. Or pot. Or suck off men in limos as Barack Hussein Obama did.
Mr Clark is a Brit and, judging by his picture, may not have been around in the 80s. I know many of his ilk think the 80s were a period of right-wing fanaticism in the U.K. and US, but it was perhaps one of the greatest decades this country ever saw. The economy got back, America got her groove back, Patriotism came back in vogue, business got strong...it was great.
In one phrase, Mr Clark revealed his bias, ignorance, and immaturity.
>>Even when FDR held his fireside chats, he wore a suit and tie.
“On television.” - Joe Biden
>>the Eighties management hierarchy firmly in place
The White House IS top level management hierarchy.
Murray Clark
Big Mike is still looking good too.
This is the same guy when he was president that addressed the press without a tie on. Yup, presidential.
As do all pimps and pusher kingpins.
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