From ‘New York Magazine
http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2008/10/barack_obama_upgrades_his_mom.html
Barack Obama Upgrades His Mom Jeans
* 10/29/08 at 6:55 PM
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Looks like he went back to his Mom Jeans roots.
"I got a hard time from all sorts of blogs who said I looked like Urkel," Barack said at fund-raiser in Chicago in June. Awww, he's self-conscious. Just like us! But we confess we found his mom jeans kind of endearing, because they're just the kind of thing normal nerdy dads would wear totally oblivious to the fact that they're anything but fashionable. But more important: Barack reads blogs about clothes? What if he's reading this right now?! Keep the sneaks, Barack! A spot of nerdy dadness looks good on you. Besides, it makes you relatable.
Something tells me that for most people it wouldn't matter what he wore.
Mom jeans=like one of us
non Mom jeans="cool"