He looks worse than ever. If someone said Obama was suffering from terminal cancer, I could believe it. (Not just suffering from his terminal presidency.)
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?"
Back in 2007 I was remarking how Mooch looked like a fullback when seen from behind with her broad shoulders
I suppose he could find a few random friends wandering around Syria who could help him out.
——He’s afraid of prosecution if Trump’s elected.-——
Trump isn’t going to prosecute him....
I wish you trump guys would stick to reality.....
Golf is haaaaaaaaaard......
Hey Hussein, if you’re so concerned with your hair, why not shave it all off and you won’t have to worry about the color plus you can be President Bald Eagle..............
Obama has been using hair color for years for political reasons.
He looks worse than ever. If someone said Obama was suffering from terminal cancer, I could believe it. (Not just suffering from his terminal presidency.)
OMG! I never look or listen to the narcissist Communist but this takes the cake!! What a Bi-Sexual Muslim CHILD he is.
I wouldn’t care if he didn’t age another day!!!
Baloney.
If Trump really "obsessed" on his hair, do you think it would look the way it does? He can afford the best stylist in the country, but he apparently doesn't see the importance of that.
But at least we have gotten past the "Trump wears a rug" idiocy, so I guess that's progress.
“By my bed, in the residence, is a picture of me and Michelle in Luxembourg Gardens, kissing”
Where do you keep the one of you and Reggie at the bathhouse?
I have seen some broad shouldered gals but Mooch is just over the top manly.
There have also been a couple of photos and video clips showing *something* protruding where no woman would protrude, but a fella would.
It would be interesting to see DNA tests on Barry, Mooch and both girls.
Personally I wonder what lawyer handled the adoptions.
“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”
You sure do now when it comes to Trump, whom you fixate on.
“He looks worse than ever.”
In the pic of Obama waving, it looks like some of his hair coloring has come off on his fingertips.
Golf will give you grey hair? Sure wasn’t dealing with world crisis.
Obama has AIDs as the US being led by
an undocumented, ever-lying, Moslem brain tumor.
Awwwww, isn’t that nice? We are so lucky he gained so much experience during his tenure as the chief executive of the nation. Now maybe his resume will be thick enough to acutally get a real job.
In the meantime, the stress of training him on the job has given all the rest of us gray hair.
Drugs from your yute will make your hair the same color as the cocaine you consumed through your nose. Goes right to your head...the hair...somewhat time delayed.
Hey, that theory has more legs than globull climate anything!
:-)
Obama - hear that? That is the sound of the WORLD laughing at you...
Does golf make ones hair go white?
The guy certainly doesn’t work hard at ALL on his job to justify this.
Maybe he’s stressing too much over his golf scores...
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