I don't like Michelle's Dress.
Mundo, printed the pic, with blurred faces.
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 don't like Michelle's Dress.
Mundo, printed the pic, with blurred faces.
Addams family.
love the combat boots on the one on the right!
Yup, that's probably what I would start with, were I a photoshop guru :-)
I thought the Presidential gaze had happened to fall on some underage derriere. My mistake.
Thirteen and sixteen?
Spain is ruled by the Addams Family?
Dang, you beat me...
At least Michelle doesn’t have a frown on her mug as she wears the White House orange tablecloth.
“Slightly gothic attire” is right. They look like druid priestesses.
Please God, don’t let my daughter find this look attractive when she reaches that age.
Good God they are horribly disfigured where are doctors without boarders to help them
It must have been an honor for the young witches to meet the Devil himself.
Zapotero looks normal.
I have some boots like that. Haven’t worn them in about 7 years. I think if the ladies had worn heels, it would have gussied up their look.
MY EYES!! MY EYES!!
Hey wait, where are THEIR eyes?
The cubic lens mask could be a real hit for this year’s Halloween.
And the Great Pumpkin!
The one on the right looks like the dead girl from “The Ring”...
So, where are the kids?
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