Tuesday, December 12th, 2006...4:50 pm
Barack and Roll
I can tell that Barack Obama must be scaring the Republicans, because they have already made a couple of butt-stupid attacks on him over the last couple of weeks.
Most of you already heard the one about Obama’s middle name being Hussein. So effin’ what? Other than the bozo that said it, it doesn’t seem to have gotten too far. But, we have, what, six hundred and some odd days to go before the 2008 elections.
Anyway, they have a new one: he dresses like the enemy.
But, in the case of Obama, he may be walking around with a sartorial time bomb. Ask yourself, is there any other major public figure who dresses the way he does? Why, yes. It is Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who, unlike most of his predecessors, seems to have skipped through enough copies of “GQ” to find the jacket-and-no-tie look agreeable.
Greenfield isn’t so much a moron as to accuse Obama of copying Ahmadinejad, but he makes the silly statement that somehow he will remind people of Ahmadinejad because he wears an open collared shirt with no tie. No, Jeff, silly pundits think of Ahmadinejad, actual people will just see a younger-than-average Senator dressing down a bit.
Yeah…that no tie thing. It was invented by the Mullahs. No one else big has ever done that.
-sigh-
Is this the best they can do? Not that I should be helping out the conservatives on anything, but this guy is fairly liberal. Can’t you attack him on, I dunno, his record or something?
A few weeks ago, Obama was on NPR’s Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me, apologizing to a reporter for ruining this guy’s pick up of an intern. You can get the audio of the apology here. Sample line:
I want to apologize publicly for messing up your game.
Perhaps it is this sort of natural easy going way that they are worried about. The guy is young, friendly, attractive. Someone like John Kerry, Al Gore and Mike Dukakis were cyphers to the American people when they ran. This guy, he’s already building up a relationship with people. It’s a lot easier to trash an unknown rather that someone people feel like they already know and like.
Those of you that know me know that I dislike football. Maybe “dislike” is too mild. Anyway, I did not watch Monday Night Football last night, but Obama was on there making an “important announcement.”
3 Comments
December 12th, 2006 at 7:23 pm
I like the tieless, open collar and untucked shirt with a suit jacket look. However, Tedski, your male readers should understand that you need a flat stomach to pull this off. If you’re overweight, stay with the more forgiving tucked shirt, tie, and jacket. They cover these important issues on TLC’s “What Not to Wear.” Maybe Jeff Greenfield should tune in.
December 13th, 2006 at 7:33 am
What!!?? You dislike futbol??
Gahhhh … politics is becoming like Xmas-shopping season — the start dates keep getting earlier.
December 13th, 2006 at 7:52 am
Futbol, fussball, votebal…those are all okay. Football…the kind with the pointy ball…nah.
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