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.
The Zapatero’s meet the Zero’s.
...”looks” normal.....
Lurch looks bad in orange.
That makes sense. They are representatives of Spain.
That pic is a classic.
“Addams family.”
Cousins of Gomez.
It points to the exact reason these girls dress like this. They not only do NOT want to be in the picture, they do NOT want to be the children of the Prime Minister.
My best friend in school was a ‘punk’ with the chains, mohawk, crazy makeup, etc... The weird part is that she didn’t want to be seen. Yes, doesn’t that sound weird? Dress ridiculous that makes you stand out among ANY crowd so that they don’t see YOU. They see the chains, the crazy makeup, the ridiculous clothes, ridiculous hair, but not YOU.
I don’t know if that makes sense, but my friend has agreed that it is exactly right, even though she didn’t understand it at the time.
Plus, she's standing next to the white bowlegged woman. That's a photographic catch - to find two bowlegged women in the same room!!
Gosh -maybe they can blame the vampire family look on Halloween.. October is almost here!
LOL.
I like Michelle’s hair, and the color of the dress. I think that she looks best in a straight sheath. It’s a good length for her, but I don’t like the “cape look” at the top. This is a much more stylish dress than the spaghetti strapped thing she wore to the dinner.
Wait! I got one!
Put them out to graze in the back 40!
What gaffe did Obama make in this situation?
Wow, what a motley crew they are.
Is that the Jedi council?
I have no idea. I think in the “lefty world”, anything goes. They probably didn’t find anything “wrong” with the picture.
lol
Hopefully at his side.
These two heads of state have one thing in common....no class.....
“OMG...what goes on in that household.”
I don’t know, but I feel sorry for their pet goat.
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