Superficial

Former White House Chief of Staff, Andy Card:

And yes, I’m disappointed to see the casual, laissez faire, short sleeves, no shirt and tie, no jacket, kind of locker room experience that seems to be taking place in this White House and the Oval Office.

Everything about the Bushies was superficiality and pretence. Pretending to be cowboys. Pretending to keep American safe. Pretending to give a shit about New Orleans. It stands to reason that the White House dress code would be a thing for them.

If the Bush administration had been more concerned with not violating the law than with not violating dress codes, they might’ve had a better run.

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  • Carl Malone

    yes, and let’ not forget about all the Jeebus Junk that came out of Bush’s smirking pie hole. Meanwhile back at guantanamo…….I can’t wait till the war crimes prosecutions begin. That is change you can see!!!!

  • veralynn

    you know you can shred the constitution, invade and occupy a foreign land, bring the economy to its knees and as long as you are in a jacket and tie, it’s ok.The new GOP chairman said it very well, it isn’t that e are wrong, it’s our PR…..this should help them.

  • Kat

    I could care less if our president wears a wife beater and a pair of jorts, as long as he does the job we elected him to do. Although he might want to change for state dinners and such as. Also.

  • Ruthie

    I am sure that Bush always wore a suit and tie when farting while meeting new staffers. Such a dignified man!

  • veralynn

    @ Kat “such as. Also”that will never get old LOL

  • GItheScholar

    Were tighty whites a part of the dress code? Because I want my President’s junk to be relaxed when he is making decisions that really effect my life.

  • veralynn

    ok I love President Obama, but GI, that is not a vision I want in my head!! Plus, he’s got to be a boxer guy, for my sanity he just has to

  • http://nanotyrnns.blogspot.com/ Nanotyrannus

    Andy Card was the White Chief of Staff and all he can complain about from the new administration is dress code? That’s all he’s got? All that education, all that experience and that’s the best he can do.Fuck off and smell the New Reality, Card.

  • http://www.twoeightnine.com/ twoeightnine

    I’m going to thank Bush for this. I would not have wanted to see Andy’s moobs on a regular basis.

  • http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/ Annette

    I think it is great.. I love seeing him in his shirt sleeves… makes me think he is really working instead of just sitting around for the next photo op… that’s what I always thought of when I would see shrub and all of them in coat and tie… they were waiting for the cameras.. now I see Prez Obama in his shirt and he is working. What a difference it makes.

  • incredulous72

    Obama’s suggestive vision of ‘rolling up his shirt sleeves and getting down to business’ works for me.Card can go to hell. He can wear his jacket and tie all the live long day down there.

  • brutlyhonest

    Remember when they tried to paint Obama as the snarky rich guy leaning against the wall making snide remarks when that really described bush to a T? Well there they go again: Trying to project the locker room, frat-boy mentality that IS bush onto President Obama because he doesn’t mandate a jacket and tie at all times.

    The republicans have been working the perception management angle very well for years, but it’s running out of steam as reality finally sinks in with all but the densest.

    One of the bushes former mouth-pieces was on CBS saying how bush always wore a jacket and tie out of respect for the office; seeing the pictures of Pres Obama was “jarring”. I suppose all the fart jokes were made respectfully. It’s better to look good than to be good.

  • SillyGit

    I’ll repeat what I said last night.You can ignore intelligence that says the U.S. is going to be attacked by terrorists flying commercial airliners, you can ignore intelligence that says there are no WMDs in Iraq then invade and occupy Iraq anyway, you can ignore warnings about Katrina and ignore the governor of LA’s requests for National Guardsmen to be deployed to New Orleans, and you can borrow and spend the nation into the next great depression AND THIS IS ALL OK BECAUSE YOU WORE YOUR SUIT JACKET AT ALL TIMES.What a bunch of petty, picayune fuckwits.These are the kind of clowns that caused the phrase “Penny wise, Pound foolish.”Hey, We only fuck up the really important stuff!We never fuck up the petty and insignificant!TOTAL COMPLETE FUCKTARDS.

  • Duderino

    I often had the impression that Dubya was very self-consciously playing dress-up in the WH. Many of his public actions and statements, and much of his body language, seemed like he was acting the way he thought Mr President should act.

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    I wrote about this last night because I was so riled after hearing about it. This is just one point:

    This is the same Andrew Card who accompanied then White House counsel Alberto Gonzales in the dark of night to the hospital room of ailing Attorney General John Ashcroft in an attempt to get him to sign documents reauthorizing President Bush’s domestic surveillance program that the Justice Department had deemed illegal. But he talks about respect for the office.

  • eve

    So, Andy, I guess lying us into war, stomping all over the constitution, laughing at the rule of law, and leaving us with a global economic crises that is unparalleled in history is all fine and dandy as long as everyone has on their white shirt, tie, and jacket.More brilliance from the Bushies.

  • Packy

    Card prating on about “respect for the office” would be laughable if it weren’t so pathetic.For eight long years, BushCo. disrespected the presidency itself.Wearing a suit and tie didn’t change that fact.Personally, I think that rolling up your sleeves and getting to work shows far more respect for the presidency, and for the American people, than playing dress-up.

  • Likala

    I hope President Obama keeps up his “getting down to work” look. After all, he knows full well as he said during the campaign, “you can put lipstick on a pig” and we all know the rest, just replace lipstick with suit & tie. Bwahaha

  • jackdaddy

    I’ve worked for people who require that tighty-whitey, necktie-strict dress code thing. Without exception, appearances/form have been more important to them than substance, job performance, or customer satisfaction. I can spot their kind from a mile away.

  • Likala

    Let me guess jackdaddy,They were…wait for it…..Republican!!!

  • Lyle

    Card probably drooled over the Boss designed Nazi uniforms as a kid. Clothes make the man.

  • exoevolution

    With reality crumbling around them the Republican’s only solution is to keep pretending, while their #1 Corporate Shill Rush Limbaugh waves his sheep over the cliff into the mirage, the illusion of “trickle down”, more “tax cuts”, more “deregulation”, “mission accomplished”, “fear” over hope & the endless mantra “privatization”.Yeah, wearing a jacket in the Oval Office is our biggest problem!

  • exoevolution

    With reality crumbling around them the Republican’s only solution is to keep pretending, while their #1 Corporate Shill Rush Limbaugh waves his sheep over the cliff into the mirage, the illusion of “trickle down”, more “tax cuts”, more “deregulation”, “mission accomplished”, “fear” over hope & the endless mantra “privatization”.Yeah, wearing a jacket in the Oval Office is our biggest problem!