Yeah....but the Donald sports a Mullet
Posted on 11/26/2015 11:02:41 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
President Obama may be going through a minor mid-life crisis, as he's made numerous references to his graying hair over the last few weeks, even at major events with world leaders at the White House.
But while Obama has spoken wistfully about the darker hair of his youth, he has also argued that his graying hair is a sign of the experience he's gained as the leader of the free world for the last seven years.
Just two days ago, Obama, 54, met with French President Francois Hollande at the White House to discuss joint counterterrorism efforts after the attack in Paris that left 130 dead. As he spoke with Hollande in a joint press conference, Obama recalled his fondness for the time he and his wife were in Paris, when he looked very different.
"By my bed, in the residence, is a picture of me and Michelle in Luxembourg Gardens, kissing," Obama said. "Those are the memories we have of Paris. As early on, I had no gray hair."
Obama's short-cropped and increasingly graying hair came up again last week, at a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the Philippines. Obama warned that the new job for Trudeau comes with risks, including a head of gray hair.
"I just want to point out that I had no gray hair when I was in your shoes seven years ago," Obama said. "And so if you don't want to gray like me, you need to start dyeing it soon."
Trudeau later responded, "I don't dwell on the gray hair, because there's nothing I can do about that."
But Obama of late hasn't taken Trudeau's advice. During this month's Tribal Nations Conference in Washington, D.C., Obama reminisced that when he first ran for the White House, he pledged to boost relations with Native American tribes, and his hair came up again.
"And back then, I was just a young adopted son of the Crow Nation," he said. "Didn't have any gray hair. Now I am President Barack Black Eagle."
A day earlier, on Nov. 4, Obama recalled that when he was first elected as president, his hair looked different.
"I was reminded that today is actually the seventh anniversary of my election as President of the United States," he said. "Seven years ago today. And clearly, the gray hair testifies to all seven years."
When he addressed a women's leadership forum in late October, he encouraged younger people to participate in the political process in a way that referenced his hair again.
"And that's why I'm so glad to see these young people here," he said. "Because I want you....I want the young people here to poke and prod and remind us, who are getting gray hair. ...I want you to remind us of that sense of possibility."
In late September, Obama used a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping to remark on his hair. Obama said his gray hair was in a sense a sign of the responsibilities that leaders of large nations must accept.
"That's part of the deal of being on the world stage when you're a big country, is you've got more to do," he said. "My gray hair testifies to that."
But while Obama has tried to spin his gray hair as a sign of a mature leader, he also at times has indicated he's worried that he's losing his youthful look. At a Sept. 9 event on job training, Obama even asked the audience members what they think.
"[B]ack in 2009, when I had no gray hair - I had a little bit, but you couldn't see it," he said. "And now you can see it. I still look good, though?"
Related: [Fur not hair, but funny].
He’s a piece of work!
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I suggest that you take some NEXIUM, TUMS, PREVACID, or even something stronger, before all of that bile gives you esophageal cancer.
I couldn't care less about some dumb squirrel video; didums...not going to use your proffered link.
Yeah....but the Donald sports a Mullet
The USA deserved a real black man as the first black President
Lordy! You Trumpsters are really over the top.
“.....YOU who constantly manage to stick Trump insults and worse, onto every thread you are on, whether it’s a Trump thread or not.....
For the record and your education:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:cincinatuswife/index?tab=articles
Your OCD can be treated; I suggest that you get the treatment you need, prior to Trump being elected president.
Whenever I see a picture of orientals, especially women, I am amazed at how much they all look alike.
I suppose it’s a racial thing - whites more easily recognize differences in whites, blacks with blacks, etc. It’s an interesting phenomena.
I bet that you imagine that you're "clever" and that you are upsetting me. Neither is true.
I'm just wondering who has taken over my old friend's nic and now posts drivel and specious tripe.
You don’t want to look at the link in Post #27 (in response to your diatribe about me), preferring to characterize me and my posts because I don’t worship your candidate; I even have the “audacity” to question his fitness as a conservative. I did not bring Trump up on this thread. Another poster felt something was missing - Trump - and injected him out of the blue and I responded.
We have different styles of posting nopardons. When I stumped for Rick Perry and Scott Walker I posted information and links (on my threads) - I did not search around on other threads with the purpose of imposing my candidate on others, or make it my mission to insult others (Democrats excepted).
Its realty hard to keep trap of his lies. Its easy to go through life with a clean heart.
Now 0 really looks like a stupid dork. His dorky haircut has gone grey. Now when he goes out with Reggie he’ll look like his father and buggerer of gay yoofs. Or prolly in this deal its 0 who gets the wood put to him same as when Mooch straps on.
Donald Trumps favorite Finnish rock group?!!!
This thread is about Obama and the poster who interjected Trump's name, did NOT, unlike you, attempt to besmirch or ridicule him. But YOU did!
You didn't really reply with anything even remotely to do with that other poster's post!
Last time I looked, nobody has ever asked you to "worship" Trump, which none of his supporters here do; we just are truly sick and tired of your obsessive compulsion to post trash threads about him AND spew your bile filled antipathy towards him.
For times past, I held off for months, from replying to your threads, until I found myself no longer able to put up; with your garbage. So stop playing silly games with me/playing a Hillaryesque "cutsie" game of posting stupid animal links at me.
LOL
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