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White House Unbuttons Formal Dress Code
NYTimes ^ | January 28, 2009

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.

“He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s 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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KEYWORDS: bho44; bhowhitehouse; dresscodes
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To: Allegra; Vicki; Steelfish

Slob-ama.


81 posted on 01/29/2009 4:44:25 AM PST by Tenniel2 ("When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one" -- Edmund Burke)
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To: Steelfish

“He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?”

How long before the Oval Office is turned into a sandbox so he can walk barefoot “on the beach”?


82 posted on 01/29/2009 4:58:05 AM PST by Moltke
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To: Steelfish

Let us assume he hates the cold. Why did he go to Chicago in the first place? Perhaps a beloved revolutionary lived there.


83 posted on 01/29/2009 5:24:20 AM PST by Nateman (President - id = present Obama)
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To: Steelfish

Already cranking up the emissions and wasting energy.

Didn’t take long.


84 posted on 01/29/2009 5:27:17 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Steelfish
Yo, Barry Hussein! Yeah, you with the ears!

You're not being very "green", cranking up the heat like that. Take a page from your buddy Jimmy's playbook:


85 posted on 01/29/2009 5:29:55 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

86 posted on 01/29/2009 5:32:29 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Steelfish

Just another legacy of the low-class, trailer trash Clintons....Bubba dirtied the Oval office with Monica...


87 posted on 01/29/2009 5:36:45 AM PST by greyfoxx39
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To: Steelfish
Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat.

But, but.....

He told us we can't keep OUR houses at 72 degrees.

Please don't tell me Dear Leader is a hypocrite!

88 posted on 01/29/2009 5:41:20 AM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: jws3sticks

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.


89 posted on 01/29/2009 5:41:34 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Guns don't kill people. Criminals and the governments that create them kill people.)
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To: Steelfish
If he “hates the cold” he should be all for “global warming.”
90 posted on 01/29/2009 5:46:08 AM PST by HenpeckedCon (1/20/13 - Obama's Last Day!)
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To: Steelfish
“He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?”

Wait until he shows up in one of these.


91 posted on 01/29/2009 5:49:25 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (Dissent is patriotic - Hussein is not and will never be my president.)
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To: TheMightyQuinn

What Al Gore? I’m paying his heating bill and I can’t afford to keep my own house that warm!


92 posted on 01/29/2009 5:54:34 AM PST by Mom MD (Jesus is the Light of the world!)
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To: Steelfish
“He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.”

Meanwhile, he'll tell the rest of us to lower our thermostats. It's to save the planet, y'know?

93 posted on 01/29/2009 6:04:20 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (We used to institutionalize the insane. Now we elect them.)
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To: Steelfish

I thought he was from Chicago.


94 posted on 01/29/2009 6:39:53 AM PST by Sig Sauer P220 (Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators. ---- Will Rogers)
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To: greyfoxx39

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.


95 posted on 01/29/2009 7:01:22 AM PST by seemoAR
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To: Steelfish

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.


96 posted on 01/29/2009 7:31:24 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Steelfish
I keep our house on 62 or 66 degrees....depending if its while we sleep. If I see my family in short sleeves I remind them that it must be too warm and threaten to lower the thermostat!

Lower that temp and put a jacket on, Obama!!!!

97 posted on 01/29/2009 7:34:41 AM PST by MadelineZapeezda (Have you girded your loins today??????)
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To: informavoracious
Women need heaters to keep warm because they starve themselves in order to be attractive to men.

See post #61.

98 posted on 01/29/2009 9:28:00 AM PST by Windstar
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To: uglybiker
The south of...Venezuela?

Yer gittin' WARMER!!!!

LOL!!!

99 posted on 01/29/2009 5:53:25 PM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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