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Obama obsessed with his graying hair [due to demands, leaders on the world stage must accept]
Washington Examiner ^ | November 26, 2015 | Pete Kasperowicz

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?"


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ahjeez; incompetent; narcissism; obama; vanity
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

He had graying hair before the last election and dyed it.


81 posted on 11/27/2015 6:02:02 AM PST by Chickensoup (“If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.” Jef)
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To: Sooth2222

What’s with the white spots on his face and fingertips? Leprosy?


82 posted on 11/27/2015 6:15:58 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: dforest
Obama has been using hair color for years for political reasons.
This has been discussed here before. Any time Barry is in a stressful position his hair grays. This is a simple cosmetic application using baby powder.
83 posted on 11/27/2015 6:23:14 AM PST by freebird5850 (Barry, just how are you going to lie out of this one?)
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To: RetSignman

I dunno. It could be real. After all, look at what the Dark Side of the Force did to Senator Palpatine.


84 posted on 11/27/2015 7:02:33 AM PST by 5thGenTexan
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

You’d think the memory of kissing Michelle would be worse than the prospect of graying hair.


85 posted on 11/27/2015 7:13:41 AM PST by CatherineofAragon ("A real conservative will bear the scars...will have been in the trenches fighting."--- Ted Cruz)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

sign of the experience he’s gained as the leader of the free world for the last seven years.


Nope. It’s just gray hair.


86 posted on 11/27/2015 7:15:13 AM PST by Yaelle (Trump Cruz 2016)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Two little words: Grecian Formula. With all the real
problems in the world; and he majors on his hair!
- I DO NOT CARE about his HAIR!!! He keeps it buzzed off
like it’s a bother anyway. - One more year of this
crap!!! IF we’re lucky.


87 posted on 11/27/2015 7:18:18 AM PST by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: Popman

You have some strange hopes.


88 posted on 11/27/2015 8:17:00 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2
You have some strange hopes.

Huh ?

89 posted on 11/27/2015 8:22:01 AM PST by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: joethedrummer
Does golf make ones hair go white?

Depends on how bad you are at it.

90 posted on 11/27/2015 8:36:17 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Popman

Whoops...Posted to the wrong poster....lol...


91 posted on 11/27/2015 8:37:02 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2
Whoops...Posted to the wrong poster....lol...

I've done that myself...darn mouse screwed up ...

92 posted on 11/27/2015 8:44:06 AM PST by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Obama has been dying his hair since before he became president.


93 posted on 11/27/2015 8:47:23 AM PST by stylin19a (obama = Fredo Smart)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

It’s always about him.


94 posted on 11/27/2015 9:45:01 AM PST by FourPeas (Tone matters.)
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To: Politicalkiddo

*first things to go.


95 posted on 11/27/2015 10:44:14 AM PST by Politicalkiddo ("We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them." Abigail Adams)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

You can say all that, but he has accomplished more in dismantling the American experiment in government than any other of his predecessors, maybe all of them combined.


96 posted on 11/27/2015 12:06:17 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

But they are still popular with the American people in varying degrees. LA, for instance, just elected an Obama supporter as governor in the general election last week.


97 posted on 11/27/2015 12:07:11 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I'm quite relax, unlike you.

I suggest that you find a different hobby.

98 posted on 11/27/2015 3:03:54 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Barack Black Eagle

Make that Chief Barack Walking Eagle ... so full of s*t he can't fly.

/old joke

99 posted on 11/27/2015 5:38:19 PM PST by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; Fast Moving Angel
Barack Black Eagle

Make that Chief Barack Walking Eagle ... so full of s*t he can't fly.

Chief Golfing Eagle ?

100 posted on 11/27/2015 6:43:57 PM PST by Democratic-Republican
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