Many people in America, especially where I live, would like to heat their homes to a comfort level where sweaters and coats become unnecessary. However, Obama and the Democrats want to impose ruinous taxes and penalties on energy production and fuel that produces carbon dioxide — a naturally-occurring element — and make that choice economically unbearable for us. In fact, candidate Obama spoke directly to that end in May of this year:David Axelrod tried to treat all of us as if we're supremely stupid as he sought to explain the picture of Obama without his suit jacket.“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said.Well, apparently some of us can, and those lucky few do call themselves “leaders”. The rest of us call them hypocrites as we fetch another sweater.
“That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen,” he added.
“He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.”Oh, please. How long has it been since he lived in Hawaii? He hasn't lived in Hawaii since the early 1980s. Since then he's going to college in New York City, lived in Chicago, gone to law school in Massachusetts, returned to Chicago. He's so tough in snow situations that he can publicly ridicule his daughters' schools and the District of Columbia for their inability to cope with a little ice storm.
People move around the country all the time and get acclimatized to the new climates quite quickly. I've lived in Chicago, Fort Lauderdale, D.C., Los Angeles, and Raleigh. As everyone else does, I have gotten used to the climates of my new environments. I'm no longer as used to a cold climate as I was when I lived in Chicago.
Obama may or may not like to keep the temperature in his office hot. What I bet he really does like is what a lot of men prefer - taking off their suit jackets when they're at work. Most people would think nothing of a guy working in his shirt and tie in his own office.
However, there is a history concerning how men dress in the Oval Office. It started with Ronald Reagan who, apparently, had a rule about not taking off his suit jacket out of respect for the Oval Office. Then came Bill Clinton and we know about his behavior in the Oval Office. So Republicans started dusting off Reagan's dress requirements for the Oval Office to contrast with the pictures of Clinton in his sweaty jogging shorts or the mental images of him in there with Monica. When Bush came in, he reinstated the Reagan rules for how to dress in the Oval Office.
Now Obama is president and he and his advisers had a meeting in their shirt sleeves. It's different from Reagan and the Bushes, but is it really all that disrespectful for men to take off their suit jackets? It doesn't bother me one bit. If Axelrod were the public relations genius that he is supposed to be, he would have answered questions about the picture of Obama and his advisers without their suit jackets, he would have replied that they took off their coats to get to work to help the American people. Instead he told this whopper about Obama still being acclimatized to the climates of his childhood.
I would wager that most people don't give a hoot that Obama takes off his suit jacket when he's at work. Probably younger people who are his biggest fans wouldn't even notice anything about the picture of men in shirts and ties in the Oval Office. Just don't treat us like we're stupid; that gets them into more trouble because it exposes their hypocrisy in demanding that everyone else lower their thermostats.
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And when it does get cold which happens often enough in Hawaii everyone basically freezes because aside from the stove and the tiki lamps around the patio. Very few houses have any heat. The run of sweaters and jackets is really funny especially as some of the larger ladies of Polynesians extraction end up having to buy men's jackets.
Ah yes, the lovely image of flip flops, muumuus and a jacket so big that she looks like Mr Bib.
I agree with you Betsy; I don't care about the jacket wearing in the Oval Office.
Hey Pat Patterson are you running for mayor in your hometown?
Hey OXABAY:
I is not the shirtsleeves. It is the hypocrisy
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said.
“That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen,” he added"
As is complaining about Wall Street bonuses while you are eating $100 per portion steak at a White House cocktail party.
Ah yes, lowering thermostats brings back memories but the hypocrisy does keep things toasty.
I have not yet heard any complaints from Obama about the enormous sum of $90 million hauled off by Franklin Delano "Frank" Raines from Fannie Mae. Can we have that loot back?
Chris Dodd has done very well for himself, at our expense, with Countrywide Financial but seems to get a pass with Obama. I'd like to be able to get "Friends of Angelo" terms on my next home purchase. And Barney Frank kept the home fires burning by protecting and promoting the interests of his lover, Herb Moses, at Fannie Mae.
Not surprisingly all three, Obama, Frank, and Dodd were the leading benefactors of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac largesse!
If this keeps up it will begin to look more and more like Jimmy Carter's "second" term and Obama's shirtsleeves will be his cardigan.
My dear old mother had a stock phrase for hot air explanations like Mr. Axelrod's: "Hear the wind blow."
Government heating bills ought to be minimal with so much of Mr. Axelrod's kind floating around every branch.
Don't confuse the problem with Carter with the outright corruption of the new (Old)Democrats.
davod,
Your point is well taken but I also have not forgotten Burt Lance, Jimmy Carter's friend and close adviser.
You'll remember Lance's scandalous exit from the Carter era Office of Management and the Budget (OMB) and the corruption charges levied at him while he was the Chairman of the Board of Calhoun National Bank of Calhoun, Georgia.
Who can forget Bert Lance's deals with BCCI rif-raff Mochtar Riady (father of James Riady, the Clinton-Lippo Group contributor of illegal campaign funds in 1996), Ghaith Pharaon (Saudi fugitive from justice and hawala linked associate to al Qaeda), Agha Hasan Abedi, and P. S. Prasad, BCCI's largest borrower? Together with crooked Arkansas banking tycoon, Jackson T. Stephens, Lance made millions off of BCCI.
Those four years of Carter have had a lasting impact which still plagues us today.
"...Are you running for may in your hometown?" Lost on me. Translation?
Hey Pat Patterson one of these days I will proofread my stuff before posting.
The question should have read: are you running for mayor in your hometown?
Actually it was my typo, may instead or mayor, and I'm still at sea in deciphering to what the question is referring?
Well Pat Patterson, maybe it's me. In case it is I'll start from scratch.
Someone, any one person, lives in a town or a city in our country. That person has an interest in civic affairs where he lives. He gets involved in local government. One day he decides he wants to be elected mayor. Mayor is the chief elected official in the town or city where he lives. To be elected mayor he has to run for mayor. In this case to run is defined as putting your name on the ballot for a certain elected position and campaigning against competitors so he will get more votes.
For example, let's pick a town. Say - Oxford, Mississippi. Let's make believe you live there. You decide you would like to be mayor. You take care of some paperwork with Oxford City Hall. That puts your name on the ballot. Then you campaign for the office. Then election day comes around and you wait to see if you received the most votes.
I'm curious. Does that explain what running for mayor means or are you still confused?
That's the background. So here's my question. Are you trying to become the mayor in the city where you now live?
People and losing their jobs, can't pay their mortages, and have to remove their children from universities. It's nice to know that not all of us have these concerns, but can spend time worrying about whether a man wears his shirt sleeves in the Oval Office. Not too long ago a black man would not be sitting in the office at all. So how about realizing that people are different and have the right to show their style. You are quick to quote the style of President Reagan. Reagan was a master at performance; he took efforts to appear in a sweater and shirt rather than a jacket and tie if a tragedy occurred. Rather than simply citing the fact that Obama is different and should follow his predessors take a step back and take not that Obama is not only different because he wears shirt sleeves, but the fact that he's a confident black man.
To tell you the truth, given the pain that many people in the country are feeling right now, I like to see images of MY president in shirt sleeves. Posing for pictures in a jacket and tie does nothing to help my pocket book and millions of others around the country.
Stop sniveling and do something useful like discussing the facts behind the stimulus package, the bank bailouts or something else that goes beyond the superficial.
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