Apparently when you spend only a few hours a year in the “office” and many hours on vacation, wearing a jacket at work is a tolerable discomfort.

The examples of form over substance just to continue to pile up

I’m sure that John King was a hall monitor in middle school and rooted for the wrong fraternity in “Animal House”.

Presumably the only time W was in the oval was for events that were primarily photo ops. It is apparent that he loved playing dress-up, with all those monogrammed jackets and flightsuits and such.

The contempt the EmEssEm has for their audience is breath taking.

I always thought W’s thing about everybody always looking super duper stick-up-their-ass professional in the office was a cargo cult kinda thing – if they LOOKED like they were supposed to be there and knew what the hell they were doing, then it would come true. Alas, no.

John King “contributed” to that report? You mean two or more people worked on this? Wow.

Well somebody had to take the picture and that’s probably beyond King’s skill set.

What, no jackets required? What’s next, elimination of the Magic Underwear?

Get out and take your jacket with you!

Long-sleeve dress shirt & a tie? That’s dressed-up by Hawaii standards! The most formal attire I wear to work would be jeans, slippers, and an Aloha shirt. Wait till Barack feels comfortable enough at his new gig to get back to his roots and kick it Hawaii-style!

If the first prairie dog of the administration sees its shadow, do we get six more years of cleaning up after Bush?

There’s no new rule. Turns out Donna Brazile took his jacket.

He may not be wearing a jacket, but at least Obama has the class to wear pants in the Oval Office, unlike certain Republican former presidents in the 21st century I won’t name.

By the way, a few days ago King trotted out the already-set-in-stone right-wing crap about the HUGE discrepancy in the costs between the Obama and Bush inaugurations, but – of course – neglected to mention that the Obama costs include security, while, for some reason, the Bush costs don’t. Yes, old pizza face is truly fair and balanced. So happy to hear he’s now been given a major chunk of CNN every Sunday just in time for the new administration.

Yay! The rodent! How I love her/him/it!

Michelle Malkin watching said broadcast in bed, bolts upright, spilling the bowl of Chunky Monkey all over her cheerleader outfit and shouts:

Stalin never wore a suit at work. Nor did Mao. Neither does Shamu the Whale. Wait…Shamu is half black, half white, too. Obama is a communist killer sea creature!

Tomorrows first post at Hot Air is born.

Soon America’s first Muslim president will deliver his own dress code — burkas for the women (on they rare occasions they are allowed to enter the Oval Office) and keffiyehs for the men.

Obama has so little respect for this country it’s just a matter of time before he has a glass backboard and hoop installed in the Oval Office so he can shoot free throws between prayers. The backboard will have the added utility of showing participants the direction to orient their prayer mats.

PS Does anyone have photo of the Koran that Obama used in the inaugural ceremony?

So Obama is a moslem? Well that’s nice. Thanks.

The stricter the dress code, the less talented and hard working the executive- there is a perfect correspondance.

I think someone should calculate the per capita cost of the Bush vs. Obama inaugurations.
First add back the cost of security to Bush’s tally.

Close to 2 million attended on the Mall Obama’s inauguration, so that number in the divisor certainly lowers the per capita cost for Obama. (Don’t know how many bothered with Bush’s 2005 inauguration. I’d guess much less than 2 million)

This begs the question, will President Obama roll up his sleeves at every photo op?

Posing is hard work.

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Lets hope that Obama expects a 12 hour day rather than bike rides morning and noon and bed by eight.

Never met any executive worth a shit who actually wore a jacket all day..Only someone who didn’t work could do that.

PS Does anyone have photo of the Koran that Obama used in the inaugural ceremony?

You must. Let’s see it.

I took that one as snark…

You have to wonder how a human being of even slightly below average intellect could pay even the least bit of attention to anything and still conclude that Obama is a moslem….

To parody an old joke:

How was the surgery that turned you into a gooper?

“Well- it wasn’t so bad when they put on the chastity belt- but it hurt like a sonna bitch when they stuck that straw up my ear and sucked out my brains.”

just seemed there were a new one everyday …..

Heading to bed …. nite everyone

That wasn’t in the Oval office, was it? I thought that only happened in the Jeff Gannon Bedroom.

Sweet dreams, katymine.

“Well- it wasn’t so bad when they put on the chastity belt- but it hurt like a sonna bitch when they stuck that straw up my ear rear and sucked out my brains.”

There, fixed it for ya.

LOL!

You’ve got it right! This is not just some ideopathic thing-
Obama’s just doing Hawaii business casual. You don’t see anyone in suits here unless you’re at a convention of Bank executives.

But really, you don’t have to come all the way to Hawaii. Phoenix, or many places on the West Coast (especially southern California) will do.

What we have here is a case of “news” people who have never been west of the Mississippi, who become alarmed when they discover that people in other parts of the world dress differently than East Coasters.

Bob in HI

I worked in Dallas for years. Most people CARRIED a coat but no one wore it during the day. We were WORKING

wapo with a story up sayin that the NYT is full of shit and that Caroline did NOT withdraw from the race.

The consummate refrain about Bush was an allusion to the allegory “…the emperor has no clothes..”. Clearly there is general acceptance that “clothes make the man”; therefore, just what are most of you saving your ‘good clothes’ for?

Bush had good clothes.

Some said-”inside that suit would be a good place to install an exectutive.”

I thought that was over at the FBI.

I’m glad someone remembers Bush’ BFF, Jeff Gannon. BTW, I was traveling on Tuesday and the first thing I noticed in the airports was that the constant reminder that “the security level was Code Orange and that everyone should thank Dick Cheney for keeping us safe”, was gone and it was replaced by awful canned music. Those lousy songs never sounded so good.

What’s the threat level today?

are they still doing that?

I’d be surprised if the number even approached 5 figures. Seriously.

Purple.

I haven’t owned a necktie since I took off my Army uniform in 1968.

I couldn’t understand what its purpose was. I wear bike shorts and they are just as stupid looking, but they actually have a function. Why does anyone wear something that looks stupid and doesn’t do anything?

Did I mention that I have no idea how women choose their clothing?

One more damn thing. When is the spell check on Firefox going to accept Barack Obama as a correct spelling?

The headline at this moment says her spokesman just said she had withdrawn:

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Caroline Kennedy has withdrawn her bid for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton, her spokesman said on Thursday.

Kennedy, a member of the United States’ storied political dynasty, cited personal reasons for the decision, said spokesman Stefan Friedman.

(Reporting by Ellen Wulfhorst; Editing by Doina Chiacu)

You can fix that. Just right click on each word, and choose “Add to dictionary”. Right now, I’m trying to figure out why all the words are underlined…

I am very reassured to know that Bush, Rumsfeld and the legal gang were all wearing jackets when they decided that stripping suspects and forcing them to orally copulate each was a good enhanced interrogation technique.

Thank God they have manners.

-G

In the interest of accuracy, they just decided that unless there’s organ failure, it’s not torture. They left the implementation up to the folks doing the work.

Repack Rider, that’s why you should switch to the SeaMonkey browser, you can add words to the dictionary/spell checker.

Works in Firefox and Google Chrome as well – right click on the word and add to dictionary.

heh heh.

you s’pose he’ll up & faint straight-away when, not if, WHEN Obama rolls up his sleeves?

gregory doesn’t need anyone on SNL to mock him…

badaboom

oh forgive me! it was john king. not gregory. those people all look alike to me.

now now. no more speaking in tongues. we be classy.

You need to get over it, he’s your President and mine and millions of others. I’d rather see him without a jacket than wearing one and doing absolutely nothing like your friend Booshie did. Could it be you’re a tad bit jealous? I think you are. Well like I said, get over it.

Tom Tomorrow (www.thismodernworld.com) has a picture of a meeting Bush held in the Oval Office in which one of the attendees was not wearing a suit jacket. For anyone worrying about how Obama’s presidency will affect comedy and satire, to paraphrase what Bogey said to Bergman in Casablanca, “We’ll always have the MSM”.