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 suppose that would be difficult to dictate. It probably said “formal dress” or “cocktail attire”.
I don’t like ANY of the dresses in the photo! They’re all hideous, IMHO.
Ping to photo at #131, keeping up with the latest buzz...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349697/posts?page=131#131
lol
Poor girls, they will look back on the way they dressed as teenagers and shudder in horror . . .
. . . just like I do at my wedding pictures! I was o.k., I wore my mother's wedding gown, but the guys all wore PEACH tuxedos. With frills. It was the 70s.
My kids just think it's the most hysterically funny thing they've ever seen!
He does.
They aren’t bad looking - just bad dressing. I like their outfits better than most of what Michelle wears.
when I first looked at this I thought they were two middle-aged women!
Peach tuxedos. ;) Remember the Leisure Suits? By the time I got married, the colored tuxes were out. Colored cummerbunds, ties or hankies were in.
and their unemployment is creeping onto 25% ... remember when (like the USA) they had a capitalist system?
They look, “frumpy” is guess would be the word I’m looking for. Both are pretty girls. A nice dress would have done wonders.
That high? Wow, Obama has some work cut out to top that.
Get into the groove, get outta my way
I came here to drink, not to get laid.
My husband was in the Army at the time, and his hair was longer than it is now . . . and his sideburns were down the whole side of his head. His best buddy and best man had bright red hair, and I swear his sideburns stuck out five inches either side of his head . . . and talk about clashing with PEACH . . . !!!!
They need some work on their posture, too. Especially the girl on the right. The combat boots don’t help, but she’s standing like Piltdown Man.
That is really wierd! No wonder they won’t allow pictures of their children. They look older than their parents. The one on the right looks like the grandma of the family.
Not to speak of the bizarre outfits.
I wonder if some fairy or demon took their real kids and left changelings in the cradles?
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