The Shirtsleeve Messiah

Posted on January 22, 2009, 1:02 PM, under History, Politics, Reagan.

art_ovaloffice_cnnThe jacket-on-in-the-Oval-Office rule was made famous by Ronald Reagan, who so deeply respected the historical tradition in which he was immersed that he would not take off his jacket while he worked there.

President Obama has dispensed with that sartorial protocol and has opted to remove his jacket while in the Oval Office - presumably so cameras can catch him with his sleeves rolled up, hard at work saving the nation and all of mankind.

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10 Comments

  1. He can’t pull off his Superman pose with the jacket on, after all.

    Heck, even with the jacket he still can’t pull off Kent.

    *eats*

    Grue in the Attic on January 22, 2009 at 1:10 PM

  2. What’s missing in that office is a grown up. The boy king is ‘hard’ at wark. The world now loves and respects us…

    Dorothy Parker on January 22, 2009 at 1:17 PM

  3. He’s ‘hard’ at work…whatever. Protocol is no longer significant. The world is a happy Kindergarten now.

    Dorothy Parker on January 22, 2009 at 1:18 PM

  4. I love the replies. Shows us he has no respect for tradition. All I see is his ears. This isn’t going to be a good four years.

    sheebe on January 22, 2009 at 1:44 PM

  5. sheebe at 1:44 pm; This isn’t going to be a good four years.

    I’m all ears, sheebe.

    Mad Dog on January 22, 2009 at 1:55 PM

  6. Dorothy Parker @ 1:18 pm:
    The world is a happy Kindergarten now.

    Now more than ever…. (emphasis and - notes - mine):

    Quote:
    ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN

    (a guide for Global Leadership)

    All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.
    These are the things I learned:

    * Share everything.
    * Play fair.

    * Don’t hit people.

    * Put things back where you found them.

    * Clean up your own mess.

    * Don’t take things that aren’t yours.

    * Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.
    * Wash your hands before you eat.
    * Flush.
    * Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
    * Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
    * Take a nap every afternoon.
    * When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
    * Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
    * Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.

    * And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.

    Everything you need to know is in there somewhere.

    The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation.

    Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

    Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm.

    Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o’clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap.

    Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.

    And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together….

    - note - like sticking together with *George Bush (even when he shafted us in many other aspects) when he is keeping us safe, which is the same thing that Obama is doing, by allowing a caveat of "classified torture" clause, while.. at the same time "appearing nicer" by closing down Gitmo.
    *This could be Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore's next pledge (when they grow up).

    [Source: "ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN" by Robert Fulghum. See his web site at http://www.robertfulghum.com/ ]

    End quote.

    Mad Dog on January 22, 2009 at 1:56 PM

  7. Dorothy Parker says:
    January 22, 2009 at 1:18 pm

    He’s ‘hard’ at work…whatever. Protocol is no longer significant. The world is a happy Kindergarten now.

    On the playgrounds of which, the bullies rule…and Obama came to school with a shirt that reads “doormat.”

    Count to 10 on January 22, 2009 at 2:45 PM

  8. He’s phoning it in, y’all!

    Vivian Jay on January 22, 2009 at 6:25 PM

  9. I wonder how long it’s been since he used a phone with a cord on it.

    Glynn on January 22, 2009 at 6:44 PM

  10. I still say the Emperor has no clothes at all, so who cares if the world notices he takes off his jacket?

    chewy the Lab on January 22, 2009 at 8:48 PM
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