Wonkette
The most humiliating moment in our national history — “America’s Waterloo,” they called it — occurred when President Obama threw that pitch to Albert Pujols like a total sally. Compounding the embarrassment was the pair of high-waisted, pouffy jeans he wore, which will be forever associated with deficit-inflating naifs as surely as a cardigan says “Jimmy Carter.” But President Obama will not apologize for his mom jeans! Today he told NBC, “for those of you who want your president to look great in his tight jeans, I’m sorry. I’m not the guy.” President Sarah Palin would never had suggested something so outrageous. [Political Ticker, White House Flickr page]
Here is a man who took Clint Eastwood’s admonition “A man’s got to know his limitations” to heart. Note to PUMAs and wingnut fatties:
You might want to take a page from Barry Nobooty here.
Fat + tight clothes sexy.
The real answer is
Fat + tight clothes = vomit inducing.
“for those of you who want your president to look great in his tight jeans, I’m sorry. I’m not the guy.”
But… But… We have to have confidence in our preznit!
speaking of Sarah, looks like she’s having her period
“Hopefully these political critics filing this stuff (& some in press perpetuating it) appreciate the freedom to do so, protected by our vetsabout 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry”
http://twitter.com/AKGovSarahPalin
Still better than Bush’s last pitch at the Nationals opener.
http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2009/03/30/george-w-bush-to-throw-first-pitch-at-rangers-opener/
Oh please. This from a man that regularly posed for cute photos in his not-so-distant youth. He just knows that if he wears form-fitting jeans, it’ll derail five subsequent news cycles.
No, my lovely Wonkette, you are indeed correct. Sarah Palin would never have dared suggest that she looked good in anything, because then someone might have disagreed, and she would have cried and asked how someone could be so mean to Trig (who she would be holding.) She then would have resigned the presidency in protest, claiming that one has to…well, something about a point guard…America would be better off…um…. I can’t wait until 2012 when I get to vote for all of that!
Hey, shut up about the mom jeans- I am so mom- I no longer wear jeans. I saw some stupid show about how if I buy dark jeans that really fit- blah,blah, blah- tried that waste of money. I still look like an old mom(and not a milf unless you are my husband)
ManchuCandidate: LOL “wingnut fatties”–is this our nation’s fastest grwoing demographic?
SKS-fucking alt text hilarity.
Barry-We love you, even in your gay-ass Sassoons, please do not swagger or clear brush…
Screw the mortal attire. He should be wearing a halo.
Look at those honky-ass Asics, too. Shouldn’t he have on a pair of Air Force 1’s or something? I mean, for fuck’s sake, I have those same Asics.
InsidiousTuna: You have divined Barry’s shameful secret: he never stopped being a honky.
i am 43 and gave up jeans a long time ago. It’s a pain to find a pair that fit well plus they are far too thick & warm for central Texas weather. Fuck jeans!
Older men can look good in a nice pair of boot cut, well-fitting jeans. Barry’s jeans are little too Urkel, although we do get a tasteful glimpse at his nice round booty. Try some fitted dark denim, Bar. Yeah, nice and tight where they should be…
History’s greatest monster.
Dumbfuck Republican Jesusland Congressman to make ill-advised “Black Sox” reference in 4…3….2…
Ah shucks, Hopey, we’s jes wanting to sees ya cutie-patootie!
At least they’re not baseball tights.
Hopefully he cursed the Cardinals and their drunken sot of a manager into a second-half collapse, thereby allowing the Houston Astros to get blasted in the first round of the playoffs.
Blaxploitation Photographer Pete Souza should never have released this pic of Barry with his First Pitch Teleprompter practice. Bad Souza!
Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Silly Pitches.
Fuck the White Sox.
Say what you will, but that ain’t no mom’s-jeans-ass he’s flexing there.
Speed Ball: kick-starting a baseball game?
Must have been the wet-brain.
NoWireHangers: yeah, yeah, yeah, and 30 years ago I asked about my gray hair and got one of those “Gray hair looks distinguished on some men!” Thanks. (I started graying in high school.)
“Some men.”
Mom jeans? The man simply needs the extra room up front.
Barry, please find your bell bottoms and patch them up, ok?
Barry, barry, barry…you don’t need TIGHT jeans, you just need jeans that were designed in this century.
Clown pants would be an improvement over the straight-leg jeans and cowboy boots of the past 8 years.
In all honesty, he should be wearing a red, white and blue top hat. Anything else shows a lack of patriotism.
hey Barry would look good in anything…leave his jeans alone. I happen to have a pair of Levi’s that look just like that. Anyway, the main problem with his attire is that ChiSox jacket…please. Go Cubs! And I personally don’t want to see if he is hung like our last vice president…oh my god it burns!
A better alt text SKS would be “you throw like a girl.” My hub used to say that to my daughter all the time and she would promptly reply, “Thank you.”
Mom jeans, my ear. Where’s the patented Front-Butt® technology on them dungarees??1!
A black mit……god, that’s racist. I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK!!!
Oh Barry, first this, now mom jeans on a baseball field. You’re ruining my fantasy. You’re the president…you don’t have to go shopping, just call Nordstrom’s or something, I’m sure they’ll send someone with a trunk full of non-dorky denims right over.
I was hoping Barry would try to dribble the baseball a few times before throwing it.
I didn’t think they looked that bad. But I’m pretty convinced that Barry would look good in a burlap sack.
President Sarah Palin would have been wearing cut-off jean shorts and known that she looked good, if trashy.
Please notice that this place is not a bullpen but a green-screen special effects studio so that they could CGI a pitch that at least got 98% of the way to the catcher; his original attempt, unreconstructed, looked more like this:
http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi1279131673/
Terry: FTW. and fuck all you haters, Barry is the hottest prez we’ve ever had. I’m just going to appreciate the view for the next 8 years.
The only solution is for him to pose without any jeans on at all.
Wild thing, you make my heart sing.
AnnieGetYourFun: and sandals, to show off her brand-new toe-nails with her favorite teams’ logos on them.
And snap! on Barry’s barely-veiled reference to the skin-tight Wranglers Bush used to wear in his brush-clearing photo ops.
he’s a middle aged american male. mom jeans? really? are we a nation of 13 year-old girls?
kth: The sad thing is that Barry probably has a really nice ass that deserves to be displayed for the world to view and love, if only through some tightish, designer jeans.
he looks like a middle aged dude. which he is. mom jeans? really? are we a nation of 13 year-old girls?
We’ll never really know if he can pull off just any ol’ look until he rocks some culottes.
InsidiousTuna: I was thinking the same thing. He might as well be wearing New Balance for Allah’s sake.
He’s wearing white athletic socks with jeans. That’s another fashion don’t. Michelle should have trained him not to do that by now. It is an abdication of responsibility. Men are clueless about these things. They have to be trained. He’s probably got a closet full of pleated front Dockers as well. John Hodgeman is right: he’s our first Nerd President. And that’s a good thing. Cubs Win! Also.
Well obviously no one can pitch well while wearing running shoes. And what is with the mitt on his right hand? I thought he was pitching, not catching (that way you’re still not gay).
Get some perspective, people: Had McCain won the presidency, we’d all be carping about the unflattering granny panties he wore while rolling out the first pitch.
(Granny panties being the only undergarment large enough to fit over a pair of bullet proof adult diapers.)
Okay, I love Barry but Michelle needs to get her “fashion” buyers to find him some jeans that are not “vintage 1988″. How hard can that be?
Or at least he could wear a Generra Hypercolor White Sox jersey.
sezme: He’s a lefty, obviously.
norbizness: Sooo totally rad, dude!
WARNING: Do not let you mom iron your brand new, never worn Hypercolor t-shirt the morning of your first day of school. It will cease to be “hyper,” you will cry like a girl, and she will make you wear your Wrangler western style snap-button dress shirt instead (which was probably her plan all along.)
earnestcivilservant: A LEFTY????? Do you know what MUSLIN’S DO WITH THEIR LEFT HANDS?!?!?
What is it that is most important about those jeans? The length or the width?
Extemporanus: Right, and all the cool kids were wearing Quiana.
“That One” throws like a girl.
Bush Jr., that guy had a arm.
Those jeans had an elastic waste band!
President Palin would have had the Carhardts, faded, tight and obvious camel toe.
Uh, yeah, you’re not the guy that looks good in tight jeans, just in swim trunks, dark sunglasses, suits, tuxes, button-down shirts with the top button undone…uh, where was I? Anyway, as many outfits that Barry looks awesome in, you think Michelle would let him out the door in tight jeans? Thanks for taking that bullet for her, Mr. President.
Clearly, he needs some 501’s. Something a little tighter that really shows off the package.
He can wear whatever damn jeans he wants so long as he keeps showcasing those big feet.
When my 16 year old daughter saw those jeans she laughed her ass off and called them farmer pants.
If I throw the ball really really well, people will really really like me.
Those aren’t mom jeans! LOOK AT THAT ASS, PEOPLE!
Sniping about Barry’s fashion choices is insane–especially his denim decisions. They are age/era/event appropriate, and his butt looks amazing in everything he wears, even the Docker-Dad options he displays on kid outings. Critics: STFU
They look like standard Levi’s 505s to me. I should know, I’ve been wearing them for 30 years.
Being president, though, probably takes away valuable time from the rock-salt-soak-in-the-bathtub deal, so they’re pre-washed.
But I see no tapered leg; no pleats. Mom jeans, these are not!
lionboy: I was about to say — doncha just wanna pinch that little tight tucchus???
WickedWitch: PILDAW - President I’d Like to Do Against the Wall.