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.
I think that’s his wife. Is she part French or Haitian? I remember something about that.
And hates America as much as she does.
Needs a little “fairy dust”. ;) I really like purple.
If that isn’t a doctored photo i’ll eat my cap...I enlarged the picture and each time i did something else jumped out at me..I enlarged it to 400% and then the distortions really appear...Nobody has ridge lines on their faces the way the girls seem to have, and their foreheads are very unusual too..I noticed a tiny mark on the boot of the daughter on the right and the more it is enlarged, the more it looks like a boot knife, possibly with a bird’s head, an eagle maybe ?...so- a knife in a combat boot..is that part of the Gothic look too?....They should have skipped the photo-op....
Is that cousin IT? I haven’t watched that show for so long.
Modern day BURQA’S????
He's a socialist like Obama. Check out what has happened to that country's economy since he came to power in the wake of the Madrid train bombings.
If it werent for her taste in style she would never get any face time.
The kid in the middle now looks virtually normal in this detailed picture. That’s not wide leather bracelets, that’s a stack of thin bracelets. And the brooch looks Spanish enough. But my heavens the one on the right! The combat boots, and black rimmed eyes, and a black painted right thumbnail!
Is she part French or Haitian?
Part man. “I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said LOLA.”
Thank you (I think) for finding the original photo. I have to conclude that, besides turning men into cardboard cut-outs, socialism does weird things to women and children.
Why does that picture look like they just came back from sacrificing something?
They have eyes! I think I like them better without.
Pretty girls. Too bad that’s obscured by the outfits. The black eyeliner needed to go.
Michelle looks nice. No scowl next to the Mrs. Z.
Of course it makes sense. It's like hiding behind a mask, wearing your Halloween costume year round.
If that were my kids, they will dress like I tell them until they are old enough to buy their own clothes, and have their own house...now THAT is old fashioned.
I was ready to say, “I see a shadow”, but cardboard cutouts leave one also.
They call that a "toe rand" -- it's not a knife. Almost like something you'd see in a Harley Davidson catalog.
Yes. ;0)
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