rssAndy Card, Shhh
Thursday, February 05, 2009 at 10:23 am
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The militant triviality of Washington personalities is enough to make me break character and go outside of my national-security lane. Andy Card, chief of staff to George W. Bush, is whining that Barack Obama doesn’t wear a jacket in the Oval Office.
“The Oval Office symbolizes…the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I’m going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it’s appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President.”
Yeah! Everyone knows wearing a suit in the White House will prevent you from letting the global economy collapse; a major American city from drowning; and not one but two wars from going disastrously down the toilet. Suit jackets symbolize the Constitution. You can eavesdrop on anyone you like while wearing a suit jacket. It’s like a sartorial warrant!
The idea that a key enabler of the most disastrous presidency since — to be charitable — Lyndon Johnson would dare reproach the sartorial habits of the Obama White House is absurdly self-parodic. What’s even more inexplicable is that the opinions of these men and women will continue to be solicited, out of some foolish social ritual about showing respect to the former inhabitants of the White House no matter how little respect they showed the country. The comparison Andy Card sets up from this frivolous little outburst writes itself: Bush was form; Obama is substance.
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7 Comments
Comment posted February 5, 2009 @ 7:31 am
This story is almost a week old. Washington Monthly had it on January 31st.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/indiv…
Why does it merit top billing on your site? And who really cares what Andy Card says anyway?
Less snarkiness and childish sniping, more reporting, please.
Comment posted February 5, 2009 @ 8:14 am
Hey what's the problem…Clinton already disgraced the Oval office…..Obama not wearing a jacket is minor compared to the bordello hijincks of Clinton….
Comment posted February 5, 2009 @ 9:53 am
I've heard it argued that fashion is nothing more than the ruling class telling others what is acceptable in personal style. Andy Card seems to be making that case.
Comment posted February 5, 2009 @ 1:37 pm
Bill Clinton didn't take his jacket off to spooge on Mimi I mean Monica. Style, baby! The greatest president of the last half of the 20th century could do everything at once competently. The idiot who replaced, aided by the illustrious Andy Card (male prostitute) couldn't eat pretzels on the couch without a defibrillator nearby. I would blow Clinton myself if I thought we could get him back in the White House and maybe unleash the hounds on the anti-American Right.
Comment posted February 6, 2009 @ 5:21 pm
Mr. George W. Bush is not longer President…
Dick Cheney is no longer anybody…
Andy Card is not now, and was not earlier in control of anything after being replaced…
We now have an elected offical, that represents over 60% of America's views… The people who have always rolled up their sleeves and went to work, still do. Those who use to push the buttons, and make the rest of us jump, are now in retirement. THANK GOD!
Comment posted February 6, 2009 @ 5:23 pm
Mr. George W. Bush is not longer President…
Dick Cheney is no longer anybody…
Andy Card is not now, and was not earlier in control of anything after being replaced…
We now have an elected offical, that represents over 60% of America's views… The people who have always rolled up their sleeves and went to work, still do. Those who use to push the buttons, and make the rest of us jump, are now in retirement. THANK GOD!
Comment posted February 22, 2009 @ 4:37 pm
anything about politics is not my cup of tea.
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