Posted on 01/28/2009 10:05:19 PM PST by Steelfish
White House Unbuttons Formal Dress Code
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG January 28, 2009 WASHINGTON
The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat.
Mr. Obama has exhibited a relatively informal working relationship with aides like his staff secretary, Lisa Brown.
Hes from Hawaii, O.K.? said Mr. Obamas senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.
Thus did a rule of the George W. Bush administration coat and tie in the Oval Office at all times fall by the wayside, only the first of many signs that a more informal culture is growing up in the White House under new management.
Mr. Obama promised to bring change to Washington and he has not just in substance, but in presidential style.
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Slob-ama.
Hes from Hawaii, O.K.?
How long before the Oval Office is turned into a sandbox so he can walk barefoot “on the beach”?
Let us assume he hates the cold. Why did he go to Chicago in the first place? Perhaps a beloved revolutionary lived there.
Already cranking up the emissions and wasting energy.
Didn’t take long.
You're not being very "green", cranking up the heat like that. Take a page from your buddy Jimmy's playbook:
Just another legacy of the low-class, trailer trash Clintons....Bubba dirtied the Oval office with Monica...
But, but.....
He told us we can't keep OUR houses at 72 degrees.
Please don't tell me Dear Leader is a hypocrite!
Good composition of the sunset shot, but try underexposing sunsets by 1 or 2 stops and watch the colors get as vivid as they look in life.
Wait until he shows up in one of these.
What Al Gore? I’m paying his heating bill and I can’t afford to keep my own house that warm!
Meanwhile, he'll tell the rest of us to lower our thermostats. It's to save the planet, y'know?
I thought he was from Chicago.
As far as I know, Slick never lived in a trailer. In my opinion, He never elevated his self to the trailer trash level. Her Heinous is a native of Chicago.
Oh yeah, let’s get wrapped up in a dress code debate; that certainly pushes forward the debate on what he is attempting to do to our constitution.
If he is greeting dignitaries in shirtsleeves then that is disrespectful on his part but working at his desk? Who cares. So if BO Plenty wears a coat and tie each day while working at his desk does that mean that he respects the office and constitution?
The steaming obama that has been crapped into the oval office is what he is and we should damned well focus on what he is trying to do to our republic and how to stop him; not on petty superficial things like “he’s not wearing a coat or a tie”. For crying out loud stop worrying about dressing a turd up in a coat and tie and what the rest of the world might think about him going casual.
Lower that temp and put a jacket on, Obama!!!!
See post #61.
Yer gittin' WARMER!!!!
LOL!!!
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