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 family—with the faces slightly pixilated to comply with the country's aforementioned privacy laws concerning minors—in 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 photograph—obviously altered—depicting the two teens as members of the Addams Family, the band KISS , and J. R. R. Tolkien's troll-like Orcs.
What a freak show.
Well, Michelle finally found a first lady that dresses as poorly as she does. That’s why the big smile.
I’ll have to pull the, “are those real” card.
Not Obama directly, although "the buck stops here" principle does apply, but rather the protocol office in allowing the photograph of the children to be posted on the internet in direct violation of the guest nation's policy. After all, that's what protocol is all about. It is amateur hour at the White House and a string of protocol gaffes lands in the Oval Office.
“Addams family”.
...BINGO! They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky, they’re altogether ooky, the Marxist family!
They make Michelle look like a hottie.
Is that the Cameroon couple? I read somewhere that she likes fashion.
Are you sure that’s not a cardboard cutout of 0Bama?
I don't want them to be in the picture either.
“OMG...what goes on in that household. That is one scarey bunch.”
Yepper. Now, what do you think of the Spaniards?
The “kids” look suicidal!
I suppose so. Some nice pumps, some color, different dresses, and this could have been a nice picture to take home.
Michelle’s orange tablecloth looks like it matches Ghadaffi’s orange tablecloth.
It must have taken some serious bribery on Zapatero's part to get the goth make up- the black lipstick and black ghoulish eye makeup and face piercings/jewelry- removed.
He probably had to bride the kids too.
I'm sure a non-pixelated photo will surface soon enough with the apropriate make up and piercings phot shopped back in.
I think that diplomat called the wrong escort service. That is a big ugly guy in a red wig.
Ah, a real good look at the dress. Take away the draped neck and replace it with a round neckline, and you might have a winner!
Thanks I could not place it, but knew if looked familiar.
Oh, baby, look at you
Don’t you look like Siouxsie Sioux
How long’d it take to get that way
What a terrible waste of energy
You wear black clothes say you’re poetic
“The “kids” look suicidal!”
The blond’s wrists are covered with some huge bracelets.
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