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.
given the picture I believe Michelle looks dashing!
Easy to make mistake.
“...given the picture I believe Michelle looks dashing!”
The term is handsome.
She’s looks happy. Is that because the PM is a leftist?
Pssssst! Remember The ONE doesn’t go for girls:-O
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The goth look is nothing new. We didn’t call it goth back in the 80s but a lot of us wore black minus the make up and dye jobs.
I’m not sure. They don’t look happy being there. IMHO
Find the one with Cameroon. The wife is an absolute hoot.
Don’t worry, in a few years this will be totally passe. It will be gossamer gowns and pink pointed shoes.
My gawd..
that’s right! :O lol Zapatero has that look on him.
Um, I think the ones with the blurred faces?
mmm mmm mm José Luis Rodríguez
mmm mmm mm Luis played a real mean trick and whacked his spawn with an ugly stick
mmm mmm mm Luis told them to stand up straight if they want to procreate
mmm mmm mm José Luis Rodríguez
Mrs. Zapatero has a classic Spanish wardrobe and looks fine, if a bit mannish. Were her daughters dragged out of a gig with a rock band?
Ay caramba!
I don’t know what to say! I can’t think of anything nice. THE DOC IS STUMPED!
But I’m laughin’ my butt off!
OMG...what goes on in that household. That is one scarey bunch.
Goth? More like Visigoth. What a couple of ugly sleestacks. I though though Yur-o-peons were supposed to be the height of culture? These hags can’t even stand up straight. No wonder they are all surrender monkeys to Islam.
I had a similar thought.
However....I thought it was trying to cover a 60 inch banquet table with a 48 inch cover.
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