Posted on 09/27/2009 3:47:38 PM PDT by machogirl
Photo of Obama and Spain's First Children Causes a Stir September 25, 2009 04:53 PM ET | Paul Bedard, Alex Kingsbury | Permanent Link | Print
By Alex Kingsbury, Washington Whispers
Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was in for a rude shock if he thought the same privacy conventions that shield the children of public figures in his home country would extend to the United States. Zapatero brought his wife and two daughters along on his trip to New York for the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly, and on Wednesday he and his family posed for a photograph with President Obama at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The photo caused a huge stir in Spain because the public had never before seen an image of its leader's children, ages 13 and 16, who appeared in the photograph sporting slightly gothic attire.
The photo, credited in the Spanish press to White House photog Lawrence Jackson, was posted on the State Department Flickr site, according to sources. Conservative news outlets in Spain prominently featured the photograph of the Socialist leader's familywith the faces slightly pixilated to comply with the country's aforementioned privacy laws concerning minorsin their papers and on their websites. The conservative El Mundo newspaper put the photograph on Page A1. The liberal El Pais, meanwhile, ran a detailed explainer about why it was not publishing the offending image.
After a request by the Spanish government, the White House removed the photograph from the State Department website. But it was too late. Many Spanish in-boxes today were flooded with a series of E-mails with the photographobviously altereddepicting the two teens as members of the Addams Family, the band KISS , and J. R. R. Tolkien's troll-like Orcs.
And like most of those “gothic” kids (New Wave in drag, really) their costumes can’t hide the fact that they are butt-ugly and fat.
That was the “punk dress”, right?
“Doh”
I was thinking the servants probably go to sleep wearing those spikey dog collars just in case.
lol
Me too. I also hate loud gum chewing.
I EXPECIALLY HATE THE SHOE SHUFFLERS AND HEEL DRAGGERS. dang that really grates on my nerves!
A group photo where Michelle is the looker.
A teachable moment?
That makes sense. Rebellion. If my kids were going to go meet the President, I’d darn sure make them wear “business like” attire (for teens).
Shoe shuffling!! Hate it!
I thought it was the shower curtain from a Day’s Inn, or something along those lines.
Mine did. It lasted a year or so before she grew out of it.
The only hing missing from Michelle’s ‘look’ is the market basket on her head/ That said; given the ‘guests’ family, it probably does not matter. Looks a bit like an Adams famly gathering here. And that includes the garish smile of Obama.
Heh, heh. Plus one.
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