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.
I’m not Obama fan, but he looks nice in the pic. Michelle wouldn’t look bad if she wasn’t wearing a sleevless Snuggie. That Zapatero family looks downright creepy.
I think that ditching the make up, jewelry, and proper posture, they might have looked okay if the boots were classic, pointy toe. The roundness of the front does make those shoes look like combat boots. Nothing wrong with combat boots, in the proper venue. I suppose Heidi Klum could make that outfit look sensational by just wearing it.
LOL:) Hello Danny.
She is way to shimmery. Benefit Flamingo Fancy is to be used sparingly. I know she longs to be whiter, but she’s using too much and it’s not made for black skin. It’s too pink for her.
Good grief, what a strange family. All dressed in black!
LOL, your killing me! Paranormal camera shot from that stupid A&E ghost hunter show.
I suppose after this, there won’t be anymore “family trips” to UN Summits.
I’ll have to check that out at Sephora.
straight from the State Department photo stream.
That’s it! I knew I had seen that neckline somewhere before. ;)
Geez. I’ll have to look at it. The video was going way to fast for my tired eyes.
My son’s former girlfriend was goth, only she dressed goth and cute, somehow. She was a very nice girl and she stood up straight.
The one on the right does look like she’s wear a witch dress.
why can’t the all-black be done tastefully?
For sure it’s way better than those big belts she likes to sport. It is a weird top but I’m only seeing a little bit on this page.
Her hair looks really good in that style.
The WH is so used to employing any and every prop (Zero’s don’t show my kids....but I will do that whenever it helps me) to their advantage. So how could the WH photographer know that other leaders may actually use restraint and consistency in such matters?
I bet he'd hit it.
The chastity/military belt is hopefully gone. That looked awful. Certainly one of those “26” that tend to her needs could have told her that?
Ther creepy thier spooky thier altogether ookie....... My god don’t look under the stairs!
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