Change: Shunning Traditional Respect for The Office
Ronald Reagan left an extra jacket and tie outside the door so that anyone that wanted to come speak to him would be properly dressed to be in the office. CNN also notes the Bush Administration policy versus the policy of the new administration:
In the Bush administration, it was a rule: Jackets in the Oval Office — and now, it seems, one of the first Bush-era regulations to get scrapped in the Obama White House.
This isn’t an issue of “Presidential preference” to me, but rather, it’s an issue of respect for the office. It’s not something that merits impeachment or public outcry, but rather a second look at how President Obama is approaching his new job. Keep it in the back of your head if formality becomes in an issue in his approach.
Categories: Politics
Are we absolutely excluding the possibility that he took it off to sit at his desk? I think that all that is necessary is that he enter the Oval Office with a suit on, which I’m sure is what occurred.
Well, clearly Justin has put his finger directly on the core threat that the new administration poses to our country. We are headed for a disaster of biblical proportions. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes, the dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… MASS HYSTERIA! Oh, if only Obama had worn his jacket in the Oval Office!
Jumpin’ Judas in a lobster bib… if this is the kind of incisive, clear-headed political analysis that we can expect from Justin Higgins for the next four years, I for one intend to call Jon Stewart right now and insist that Justin be given a regular spot on The Daily Show. This petty, puerile, anal-retentive little collegiate dimtard is pure comedy gold.
[...] Change: Shunning Traditional Respect for The OfficeRonald Reagan left an extra jacket and tie outside the door so that anyone that wanted to come speak to him would be properly dressed to be in the office. CNN also notes the Bush Administration policy versus the policy of the new administration:In the Bush administration, it was a rule: Jackets in the Oval Office — and now, it seems, one of the first Bush-era regulations to get scrapped in the Obama White House.This isn’t an issue of “Presidential preference” to me, but rather, it’s an issue of respect for the office. It’s not something that merits impeachment or public outcry, but rather a second look at how President Obama is approaching his new job. Keep it in the back of your head if formality becomes in an issue in his approach. [...]
Yeah, and he better not let those kids play in there, either, that would be so disrespectful…
oh wait…
http://www.print.duncans.tv/images6/cape-times-jfk.jpg
…never mind…
Justin, it’s the 21st century, and you’re much too young to be so uptight. Save your indignation for something worthwhile…
Hey, can you hear me all the way back there in the 1950s?
Long time reader, first time reactor.
While I respect your opinion Justin, and will fight to the death to defend your right to voice it, you are waaaaay off-base here.
Respect for the Office Of The President is not in wearing a jacket. It’s not in speaking and acting ‘properly’. It’s not even in avoiding boisterous farting.
It’s in protecting and defending The Constitution Of The United States Of America.
Everything else, EVERYTHING, is merely peripheral.
If the President (not just Obama, ANY President) sits at the desk and defends our liberties without a jacket, I don’t care. He’s doing his job.
[...] emphasis. I’ve seen this kind of bile before and it drives me to the point of [...]
Oops.
http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/938/slide_938_15897_large.jpg
http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/938/slide_938_15899_large.jpg
It can now be understood, I hope, that Justin Higgins is a complete moron.