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.
Zero depth.
Someone should check to see where Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) was during that time.
Looks like Michelle has a bed sheet wrapped around her. At least the wife from Spain is more bowlegged that her.
its not only those photos..but the ones with other family members too where he has that same creepy smile
How can any person have the same stance and smile for hundreds of photos...even hollywood stars who have their smile and stance down to an art will have some kind of difference.
To me , it is another sign of his mental illness..
See post #251.
I’d flip a coin and maybe hit it.
LOL! Post of the week!
Then one day we attended an air show with all the concerts that accompany a day of that nature.
As I observed the thousands of young people milling about, I decided I would rather have my girls covered in large black clothing from head to toe, than strips of material barely covering their essentials.
Not long afterward, things began to return to normal. It is all a phase. More important is the the mind set. Goths are very depressive and may be harmful to themselves. That is what you need to watch for.
Moral Compass spinning out of control in Spain, ehh?
No wonder our inbred “leaders” are worried about “the rabble”. We retain our viability while they mimic the insane emperors of Rome.
Another crack in the sarcophogus... the residents are beginning the squirm in the Light of Truth.
Veritas Honor!
Why bother?
The unaltered image is effective enough.
They are what they are.
>>Good God they are horribly disfigured
Observe the inbred “Royalty” of New-Rome.
Let them eat cake.
Good work!
Leni
Zapatero, Obama, Caligula, Nero...
Nah, no recognizable pattern there.
The only thing these loonies use a moral compass for is piercing themselves with the pointee parts.
They are, as they always become, insane.
NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY.
EOM EOM EOM
A man that can’t get his own kids to dress appropriately to meet the leader of the free world out to be questioned regarding his lack of leadership!
She really should get another designer.
Your point???
>>Your point???
The truth of their own image, prideful in their “new clothes”, speaks loud enough and it doesn’t need any help from Photoshop.
Let the people see what their “leaders” have become.
Hail Caesar (NOT!).
The emperors are parading in their underwear.
Eh, your choice. I’ll make up my own mind. And I see their faces as those of Orcs from LOTR. Just wish I had the skills in photoshop to make it happen.
>>Just wish I had the skills in photoshop to make it happen.
I do have the skills. And I won’t make it happen because, in this case, there is no need.
When the emperor is in his underwear already, why hand him a robe?
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