NY Post (bletch) is in a tizzy about the President's vacation attire

Scooting around Hawaii last week, President Obama broke one more historic barrier by setting a new benchmark for the limits of presidential casual wear.

He was wearing flip-flops.

Historians agreed it was the first time they could remember seeing the leader of the free world snapped in a public setting, wearing nothing more than a flimsy strip of rubber on his feet.

While Ronald Reagan was famously snapped strutting on his way to Camp David in his cowboy boots and John F. Kennedy was no stranger to sailing in his deck shoes, the picture of Obama tooling around an ice-cream shop with his toes on full display seems be a first for the presidency.



"I can't say I've seen a president's toes before. This could be a very usual thing," said presidential historian Jane Hampton Cook, author of an upcoming children's book "What Does the President Look Like?"

"But I don't think this is a big deal. Your footwear belongs to the occasion. If you're on the beach buying your daughter snow cones, I don't think you can beat him up for this. Now if he's wearing flip-flops to the State of the Union, that'd be different."

Presidential historian Doug Wead concurred.

"In public, no. I haven't seen the president's toes," he deadpanned.



Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/that_quite_first_flip_flop_feet_PsHtRNc7D35bmrzNdrATWP#ixzz1ACUBEeiM




The front page of the newspaper is degrading of the President

Invisible to radar. $50,000 a pair.

but that is my own preference. Why the hell this is a big deal, is beyond me. He was ON vacation, for heavens sakes.

I think they are or were just at the beach.

Geebus. Someone put some prozac in the drinking water, please! :eyes:

". . .wearing nothing more than a flimsy strip of rubber on his feet."


anyone with two open eyes can see he has a shirt and shorts and hat on, too.

SHOULD HAVE WRITTEN:

". . . wearing nothing more on his feet than a (or two) flimsy strip(s) of rubber."


As they say in other businesses but applies to journalism as well: location, location, location.



TG, TT

You jest!

Am I making fun of their poor writing? Yes, I am.

Am I pointing out that they are poor writers -- and by extension poor editors? Yes, I am.

Am I jesting? No, I'm quite serious. Whoever wrote this piece is a poor writer.

Did I get a personal chuckle out of it? I'll never tell.



TG, TT

Journalism profession are supposed to be experts on grammar.

The whole idea of criticizing him for wearing flip-flops while on vacation is ridiculous also.

Christ, people, ease up on the feet already.

useless media...

:puke: lol :rofl:

he's protecting his scalp from sunburn! My hubby's hair is always short AND he's balding a bit. He ALWAYS wears a hat when out in the sun for that very reason.

lol

jackets, so when I wer any jacket, I wear a Steeler one. So what?

I guess you have to live in Chicago to really understand the rivalry.

:rofl:

birth certficate sales receipt.

Honestly, these people will pick on ANYTHING!

And probably has never even been there!

It's a tropical island, for Chr-st's sake!

What do they think people wear on their feet over there????

When I lived there, I went barefooted for the entire two years... it's just that kind of place

you think they know anything other than pictures on a computer????

GObama! Send the lunatics to the mad house.

Maybe Obama needs to have some official Presidential seal toe socks knitted for him. Maybe then the media would consider it acceptable.

He looks like a fucking peeping tom, however.

:hurts: :toast: :puke: :puke: :toast:

Idiot boy was wearing Crocs with Presidential Seal socks.



Edit: Curses - beaten again :)

Sid

with plaid Bermuda shorts. It's the uptight, rectally rigid thing.

wingtips and a suit. Typical beach attire for Nixon, I'm sure.

iirc the idea of that photo op was to show what a regular, easy-going fella he was.

President Ford with Liberty and pup, circa 1976 (Ford Library)

Ms Cook is quite the historian :eyes:

Yikes, what can possibly preserve the nation after this?

;-)

:puke:

I've seen them at church, weddings and family court.

THEM = working class.

The NYP clearly doesn't want our POTUS associating with WE the People in any way, shape or form.

i wouldn't wipe my dogs ass with nyp

what is the significance. have we ever seen a pres wear shoes a size too small. what else is he wearing a size too small????

* got a free pass and could do anything without negative press. It was the rules established by the M$M and Karl Rove shortly after the 2000 theft.