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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 03:12 PM
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Bush Exudes 'President Casual' (Fox Praises Presidential Testosterone)
Edited on Sun Aug-31-03 03:13 PM by khephra
"President casual (search)" has been part of the commander-in-chief's style for decades, but George W. Bush has taken it to new heights, fashionistas and image consultants say.

America's current man at the top has made public appearances wearing an Air Force-style bomber jacket, military fatigues, cowboy boots with a business suit, and jeans, jeans and more jeans, not to mention countless open shirts without a tie or jacket.

He also swaggers and frequently stays at his Texas ranch where he hosts dignitaries, holds press conferences and talks about cleaning up brush.

"He's trying not through policy but through style," said Neil Gabler, author of "Life the Movie" and a "Fox News Watch" panelist.


more...............

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,96121,00.html

:puke:

This is one of those train-wreck articles that you have to read no matter how horrible it is.

:puke:
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karlschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 03:14 PM
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1. "He's trying..." yeah no shit. VERY trying...
:grr:
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44wax Donating Member (272 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 03:28 PM
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8. He's trying and succeeding in putting the hustle to every other wannabe
big leaguer who never made it past second string on the B football team, warm up catcher on the little league team and floor sweeper on the construction site and who is now seeking to blame on all these damn liberals who opened the floodgates to "our" sports, "our" jobs and "our country". Fucking whislte ass.
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buckfush2 Donating Member (404 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 03:44 PM
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17. he's trying
not to drop the dog again in his drug induced casualness
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danbee46 Donating Member (87 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 03:16 PM
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2. Nope
"This is one of those train-wreck articles that you have to read no matter how horrible it is."

Sorry, not I.
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 03:19 PM
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3. He also swaggers and frequently stays at his Texas ranch
"where he hosts dignitaries, holds press conferences and talks about cleaning up brush."

He swaggers because he's constantly having the crap scared out of him.

This is PHONY!!! The damn ranch is PHONY!

Clean up brush? Right. He follows his little map "walk 10 paces, pick up branch. Turn to camera and smirk." Sorry jerk, there's more to working than following a script.
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never cry wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 03:58 PM
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20. I think it must have been a typo
he doesn't swagger, he staggers.....in a stupor.
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 03:20 PM
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4.  Chimpy's stumbling, bumbling and fumbling is also in vouge.
:crazy:
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 03:21 PM
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5. Style over substance
may play well for awhile but it won't carry through for 4 years.

This style issue has just given Bush an excuse to continue being lazy and uninformed. It's just so much easier to put on a bomber jacket than it is to digest some complex foreign policy issue.

I, for one, grew tired of this very early on.

MzPip
:dem:
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leetrisck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 03:22 PM
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6. Must be something wrong with "shrub"
All these commentators keep trying to make him look and seem like a "he" man - whatever in the hell that is. He has to take viagra to even get it up.
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southern democrat Donating Member (625 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 03:26 PM
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7. Fox screwschannel talks
about all these suits Dubya wears,the suit the idiot should really wear is a fu***ing clown suit.But then agian that would be an insult to Ronald McDonald!
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 03:29 PM
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10. Or prison stripes -
If he were here in Phoenix, Sheriff Joe ould make him wear pink underwear like all the other county jail residents.
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 03:30 PM
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11. Or give him a real uniform and send him to Iraq
He needs to do his time, after all, he was AWOL.
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bahrbearian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 03:55 PM
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19. With Barbara ? It probably takes more than Viagra.
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JasonBerry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 03:28 PM
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9. The Comparison To Reagan
Edited on Sun Aug-31-03 03:39 PM by JasonBerry
Bizarre article. The part about comparing the "manly" image between Bush and Reagan was interesting, but my take on that is that while disagreeing with Reagan, I never thought he was "trying" to be a man - it was obvious he WAS! Always had been! When the cameras caught him chopping wood - it was because that's just what Reagan did!

With Dubya, it's a concerted effort to portray a real-life wimp as a "man's man."

BIG difference between Reagan and Bush on testosterone count.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 03:30 PM
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12. A little too casual when bush dropped Barney!
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 03:44 PM
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16. And here's a link to a DU discussion on picture of bush dropping
Barney!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=253197
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 03:31 PM
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13. Fox: "Our Glorious Leader Can Do No Wrong"
They cheer and praise him when he castigates casual attire (American-made Levis anyone?) and requires ties in the White house. They then cheer and praise him when he dresses like the slovenly laggard he is. Fox: all spin and no principle.
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 03:39 PM
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14. that's some pretty controversial stuff for Fox
"does Bush take casual attire to far?"

I wonder if they had a meeting to decide whether such questioning of the President was appropriate while we're at war.
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JasonBerry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 03:41 PM
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15. LOL! They probably HAD to have a "meeting" about that! Good one! N/T
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rock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-03 03:54 PM
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18. Costumes n/t
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