Posted on 07/29/2007 10:50:10 AM PDT by Santa Fe_Conservative
You are saying dressing appropriately is OK if it is your idea, but if it is a standard set by the White House you are angry?
What difference should that make? If the rule is no flip flops, than it should apply to Mr. Hello Dalai as well.
Yep, no sneakers, but they will probably install foot baths.
It is precisely because the White House is property of the People of the United States that a certain amount of respect ought to be demonstrated when visiting. Certain people are too lazy to contemplate the concept, let alone dress accordingly. These recent rules are for such people.
You would think that your once in a lifetime visit, dressing appropriately would go w/o saying. Not anymore.
Pray for W and Our Troops
If Ronald Reagan never entered the oval office without a suit jacket on, I see no reason a tourist in a tank top and flip flops should be allowed to enter any place within the White House.
It hasn't been for over six years. Why you'd bring up Clinton and this sudden change is beyond me.
This is the highest office in the **WORLD**, not your favorite theme park, and you better show some respect for it.
When someone says "highest office" they are usually talking about the elected office, not the office building.
Feel free to rant on though.
No more name calling than you did.
Seems that mine was more precise than yours!
The point is that you seem to think rejecting convention, standards, and propriety makes you special.
So do hippies.
Or did that hurt your feelings, too?
oh, for cryin' out loud, its the White House, not the Holy of Holies within the Tabernacle!!
At what point do we resist becoming the lowest common denominator?
IOW, when is enough enough and when is it too much?
Flip-flops probably made the list because a couple of years ago the women’s soccer (or field hockey?) team from Northwestern University came to be honored by President Bush at the WH. Several of the girls in flip flops took advantage of the opportunity bash Bush. Very tasteless performance.
Frankly, most of the items on the list ARE inappropriate for the White House. A litle decorum by tourists and WH employees isn’t a bad thing.
Talk about complete exageration. I suppose you would go into the WH with a dirty T-Shirt and torn up jeans. How bout showing it a bit of respect?? Is that asking too much?
Pray for W and Our Troops
If I elect to show up in steel-toe boots with work gloves in my back pocket, I expect to be allowed in, if not given a hero's welcome.
Sorry.
Another classy response to once again prove my point. Thank you.
Biblically, it absolutely is not!!!!!!
“For whatever reason, the President thought is was the right thing to do.”
The President, A.K.A. El Presidente Boosh, Gringo De Mexico, seems not to have “thought” at all.
“Schemed”, “sold out”, “bought off”, even “betrayed” - perhaps.
He of Many Names took asn oath to support the Constitution. Securing the borders is an unambiguous part of that oath.
If President Bush really wants an America merged with canada and the cannibal indian descendents of Mexico, were he an honorable man he would resign and work for that which the rest of America has rejected, and which is clearly unConstitutional.
To attempt to bring about such a “union” while under his oath as President is despicable. His job description is preserve and protect the Constitution - not betray it.
I voted for him twice, as I did for his brother, Jeb. In all cases, it was a case of ‘the lesser of the two evils’. The Republican party had better find someone more willing to support and defend the Constitution or the next election or two will seee the de facto end of the Republic.
Gringo De Mexico,a rguably, is using the dress code to try to enforce a respect he has not earned, and to convince the American people that the White House is something to respect, if not venerate.
The White House, and its occupants are simply there to carry out the laws passed by Congress - the Executive branch of goverment. It is no Palaceo De Americas, home of El Presidente.
A past Asst. Sec. of the dept. of the Interior said to two reporters, “They can speak their mind, but not on public land”. When the reporters asked about the First Amendment, he replied, “They can speak their mind, just not of Park Service land”.
That crypto-fascist was Michael Hayden, and the little bachelor’s child was referring to me and my teaching and research activities.
They are after our freedoms.
DID YOU TIE YOUR SHOE LACES IN THE GOVERNMENT APPROVED WAY ! ! !
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