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Barack Obama has no respect for the traditions of the presidency, which is why he doesn’t always wear a jacket in the Oval Office. In other words, our old buttoned-up White House has become a thriving third-world Hawaiian slum where everybody wears floral muumuus and walks around with fat spliffs in their fists. George W. Bush is rolling in his grave.
You will recall that, under Bush, everybody had to be in jacket and tie at 6:45 AM, on Saturdays, because he was a prick. President Obama goes to work around 9 AM — later than your Wonkette, for christ’s sake! — and sometimes he wears a SWEATER over his shirt instead of a proper tailcoat and jodhpurs.
If Mr. Obama’s clock is looser than Mr. Bush’s, so too are his sartorial standards. Over the weekend, Mr. Obama’s first in office, his aides did not quite know how to dress. Some showed up in jeans (another no-no under Mr. Bush), some in coats and ties.
So the president issued an informal edict for “business casual” on weekends — and set his own example. He showed up Saturday for a briefing with his chief economic adviser, Lawrence H. Summers, dressed in slacks and a gray sweater over a white buttoned-down shirt. Veterans of the Bush White House are shocked.
Barack Obama has brought shame upon our nation with his nutty free-wheeling “gray sweaters.” Wasn’t he supposed to institute chadors for all the ladies anyhow? Whatever happened to that plan?
White House Unbuttons Formal Dress Code [New York Times]
OK, I worked out like a dog the last two years and did not run for President, and I still have man boobs and a muffin top. He must be the anti-Christ. How else is it possible for him to have all that *and* be President.
I think I speak for most patriotic Americans when I say, Barry honey, less is more.
yawn. let me know when he is seen in Bill Cosby sweaters.
I will admit, i got excited for a minute when I thought it said “Obama’s cock is looser…” but then you had to go and mention W.
Hahahaha, eff you DABA girls, yawl shoulda hooked up with some broke-ass community organizer when you had the chance.
Wait…George W Bush, the President who set the bar so low that an ant could crawl over it in terms of days worked in the White House, actually started his day at 6:45???
On a weekend????
Huh. No wonder Laura was knocking boots with Lynne Cheney!
“Veterans of the Bush administration are shocked.”
Not giving a shit what these people think, about anything, gives me a happy.
“Veterans of the Bush White House are shocked (to see honor and dignity in the oval office).”
Oh, and kudos to Wonkette for what must be the first-ever back-to-back First Family T&A posts. Between the junk she’s got in the trunk and his rack (and the fact that they’re into fisting), no wonder we can’t stop fantasizing about them having procreative (or other) sex. One plus: NSF workers can go back to porn watching on the job since it now consists of looking patriotically at images of our Dear Leader and his wife. I know when I get home tonight I’m going to be feeling mighty patriotic. If you know what I mean.
The real question is: what did Larry Summers show up in? Obama can say what he wants, but I suspect everyone’s looking to Larry to set the sartorial tone. Housing up? Armani. Another round of layoffs? Sackcloth and ashes!
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I have always valued Substance over the Appearance of Substance. Seems our new White House feels the same.
“Veterans of the Bush Administration” presumably refers to the guys in the shoe-shine room?
Better yet, he lets you pee wherever you want, including on him.
Gayer Than Thou: Don’t forget that he got rid of Nixon’s bowling alley and replaced it with a fully decked out S&M dungeon. Mostly for when Angela Merkel comes to visit.
Veterans of the Bush White House are shocked, SHOCKED to find less-than-maximum lip service paid to etiquette and propriety.
“Veterans of the Bush White House are shocked”
I’m shocked reading the use of the words Veterans and Bush in the same sentence without the words “fucked”, “by” and/or “over.”
I, for one, am not surprised at W’s insistence of a tight ass dress code considering it exemplifies the W Admin’s motto: “Dress for show, fuck up for dough.”
“Veterans of the Bush White House are shocked.” Oh, but genital shocking, water boarding, raping & all other manners of torture just elicit ‘another day at the office’ from those guys. Priorities, people!
actor212: it’s not so surprising or impressive when you remember that by 6:53AM his attention had wandered to the prize he got in his cereal box, Jeebus, some dirty joke he heard once, flashbacks from the nightmare that was the Texas Air National Guard, or The Sauce, at which point he was pretty much done for the day.
Anybody have any pictures of Robert Gibbs shirtless?
I need it for this thing…i’m doing. You’ll see once it’s finished. Whatever. Do you has the pixx, or not?
I think shortshortsshorts will find Hopey’s shorts, er, not short enough.
magic titty: Please can we not go there? I’m still not fully recovered from ass belly and his/her wailing colleagues dressed like bunnies.
I bet he brings coffee for everyone working on the weekend, too.
Fucker.
Tommy Says Soooo: I think any fair person will acknowledge that Obama probably needs the extra pocket room in which to hide his original birth documentation.
Hopey’s outfit sounds so cute, I’ll be musing on it all day. Thanks, Wonkette.
Light up your spliff
light up your chalice
we goin to smoke it in Buckinham Palace
lend my a paper
lend me a fire
we goin to chase way vampire
put down your face yes
of all depress yes
we goin to smoke it in the Halls of Congress
Weekends at the White House are so business casual that I hear Rahm Emanuel wields a switchblade as opposed to his Monday-Friday steak knife.
Biden, of course, just wanders around in a pink bathrobe and boxers with hearts on them all the time.
Ah, the Bush Administration, where lecturing someone for 15 min for dressing casually, and not give a fuck about torture defines the priorities.
Hopey take me away.
Just wait, in a month or two he’ll be shuffling around the White House in a bathrobe and bunny slippers while holding a World’s Best Dad coffee mug.
“George W. Bush is rolling in his grave.”… oh SKS, if ONLY, if only…
But when will be get to see Barry laying out on the White House lawn in a speedo?
actor212:
George needed the extra time to really concentrate on the comics. That Marmaduke!
All future applications for jobs in the white house must include a 5×7 bikini shot.
Mr Blifil: That was the greatest photograph my eyes ever did see.
Serolf Divad: Finally! I can get a job in government!
It was easier for Bush because he had a team of migrant workers personally dress him every morning.
Didn’t McCain complain about having to wear gray sweaters?
I’m shocked that W was able to dress himself.
magic titty: Brutha be packin’!
They’re just surprised that Obama doesn’t require his aides to wear necklaces of human ears recently sliced from the heads of squalling babes.
Serolf Divad: You just made Palin happy.
The business casual rules also mean that the Obamas can continue to be sponsored by J. Crew.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0129-obama-j-crewjan29,0,4240499.story
The girls at The Confluence must be so conflicted right now.
Or not.
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actor212: It’s just so he could justify going to bed at 7:30 p.m. every night. That, and he’s a total dick who probably thought it was real fun-like to assert his power and make everyone on his staff show up at 6:45 a.m. on a weekend in suits and ties.
Well at least Jeb will restore dignity to the White House in ‘12.
It’s totally in keeping with the Bush mentality that he spent 15 minutes upbraiding someone for wearing kkakis and yet spent roughly the same amount of time reading “My Pet Goat” to shcoolchildren while the nation was under attack. Priorities, please!!!! The emperor’s clothes could not hide the fact that he was a supercillious, smirking, dim-witted doofus each and every day of the miserable 8 years he was our liege lord.
No muslin garb?
I’m going to google “chadors” now.
I don’t care if he shows up to work in nothing more than crotchless pantyhose and pasties just as long as he ain’t George W. Bush.
Is he not aware of the Oval Office traditions?
bhosp: BAH! win
He’s just paying proper homage to Mr. Rogers.
I always find that when I have nothing to say (to partners/clients/judges) and am about to be a blathering idiot moran, I dress a lot more formally . . .
sanantonerose: Cue the visual!!!!
The guys in nice suits, from the White House to Wall Street, fucked up the country pretty good. Jeans and sweatshirts are OK by me if they can fix the money, at which time we will put Hopey’s picture, with sleeves rolled up, on the new million dollar bill.
How sick is this crush that I get turned on by the description of Barry wearing a gray sweater? And I was EXTREMELY disappointed that there was no picture of the sweater in question. Should I add “Barack gray sweater” to my already humiliating Google history?
9 am is two hours before GWB used to roll into the Oval Office, according to the article…
You know, I’d laugh off the “Veterans of the Bush White House are shocked” bit except that it was shocked veterans of the last Bushy getting their knickers in a twist over Clintonista casual that brought us all the random “gates” (Travel-, Whitewater-, Lewinski-,etc) that plagued us 15 years ago.
Kee-rist, somebody stop this hellish flashback and get those pursed lipped lemon sucking hell fiends out of there.
he’s still making all the women wear burkas right?
Mild Midwesterner: Indeed. That is how we will revive the economy - brand placement! Just wait until the State of the Union, when he sits in an Ashley™ chair, sipping a Coke™, wearing JCrew™ chinos, a Lands End™ shirt and a Brookes Brothers™ sweater, talking about how they’re going to take Sasha and Malia to DisneyWorld™ after passing the bailout
Of course the former Bush aids were shocked. Bush kept the weekends clear for nude wrestling, as he has ever since his Skull and Bones days.
CivicHoliday: At least Obama’s State of the Union won’t be appointing Blackwater™ as Rumsfeld’s private army, permitting Halliburton™ to shoot Nigerian protesters, allowing KBR™ to electrocute our troops in the shower, and inviting Liberty University™ to staff our Justice Department. Having Pottery Barn™ as our new overlords seems to be a bit of an improvement.
Over the weekend, Mr. Obama’s first in office, his aides did not quite know how to dress. Some showed up in jeans (another no-no under Mr. Bush), some in coats and ties.
so some were naked from the waist up, and others from the waist down? no wonder he had to issue an edict.
Oh who cares who cares the dude is DREAMY in everything!!
slinkimalinki: He had to assess the staff asses before deciding on how much exposure to tolerate and from which end.
One of the most important things about the Presidency is that it evokes respect around the world. The office of the Presidency is the most powerful position in the entire world. This isn’t about *Bush*! Screw Bush! This is about OUR Presidency! This is about how our leader represents US around the world. This isn’t about Obama vs Bush, this is ONLY about how OBAMA represents the citizens of this nation.
No matter how you feel about Obama, the President should show respect for the *office*, because the office is about WAY more than Bush. It is about Lincoln, Jefferson, Roosevelt, JFK, Reagan and Washington, and Obama doesn’t have the right to denigrate that legacy. With great authority comes great accountability and Obama needs to heed that accountability. Do we need a Chippendale President? It may be exciting to some women (I know other women that find it vulgar) and young people, but it is offensive to people who think the office of the Presidency should represent dignity and honor.