Too much of a good thing...
It seems that Oscar de la Renta is popular these days. A bit too popular.
And it seems that CBS is just as Bush-bashing as always.
From W
CBSTV comes this
very snarky story about the White House holiday reception:
First Lady Fashion Faux Pas: Tale Of 3 Red Dresses
Laura Bush Can't Compete, Changes Outfit Mid-Party
It's always one of the biggest nights in Washington for stars and for glamorous fashion, with guests in the spotlight at an exclusive White House holiday reception. The designer gowns are always scrutinized, and on this year's bash, there was plenty to talk about.
Three women donned the exact same $8,500 red Oscar de la Renta dress, a fashion faux pas in itself. But that's just the beginning of this debacle of ladies in red.
It just so happened that First Lady Laura Bush was wearing the very same dress too.
Riiiight... It was just s simple mistake for the other three ladies but it was a "Fashion Faux Pas" for our First Lady.
Laura went upstairs to change into something else and CBS slanted this as well:
Despite the fact that Mrs. Bush changed, the incident won't be forgotten any time soon. That's because she was still wearing the dress when she was photographed for this year's official presidential holiday photo.
Christ on a Corn Dog -- the Main Stream Media really needs to put a fscking sock in it. Bush is not my favorite president. I did vote for him as John Kerry would have been a disaster for this country with payback for his cluelessness continuing for another twenty years but jeezzz -- this guy and his family is the sitting President of the United States. Show some respect at least for the Office if not for the Man.
And this was just to whet your appetite. Another story is even worse:
From Kim DuToit comes a
story about the etiquette of one of the newly elected Democratic Senators (Jim Webb from VA):
Mannerless
I read with interest the little exchange between GWB and Senator-elect Jim Webb (D-VA), the latter being apparently set on reminding all of us what a bunch of graceless boors the Democrats are.
Invited there with other freshmen members of Congress, Webb refused to stand in the presidential receiving line. He would not have his picture taken with the President. “How’s your boy?” the Washington Post reports the President asking him later during the reception. Webb replied that he would like to get the troops home, a point appropriate for the campaign trail but not at a White House social event. “That’s not what I asked,” the President persisted, “How’s your boy?” “That’s between me and my boy, Mr. President,” the unpleasant Webb replied, and he cut his host. This the Post portrayed as part of Webb’s “unpolished style.” “I’m not particularly interested in having a picture of me and George W. Bush on my wall,” he told a reporter. Well, then a gentleman does not accept the President’s invitation to the White House and no one told him he would have to display the picture anywhere.
According to the Hill, Webb even told a source for the paper that “he was so angered by this [encounter] that he was tempted to slug the commander-in-chief.” Webb claims that one of his heroes is President Andrew Jackson. I too admire Old Hickory, but I at least recognize the rough ways of the early 19th century are not to be reprised in the 21st century. What next, will the junior senator from Virginia being challenging those who arouse him to a duel? What century does Webb think he is living in? Believe me Senator Webb is going to be a vast source of amusement, and he will fit in nicely with the unpleasant pols whose political base is the Angry Left.
Senator-to-be Webb is a Democrat. He is also a decorated US Marine and Kim has a few choice words about this as well:
I’ll bet the Marine Corps is really proud of him right now; so much for the “officer and gentleman” ethos. Frankly, I wish that the Commandant of the U.S. Marines, to which unit the newly-elected senator once belonged, could call this prick up and reprimand him. Yeah, Webb’s a decorated USMC veteran and a former Secretary of the Navy. You know what? That does not give him carte blanche to show disrespect to the Commander-in-Chief: in fact, it should invoke the precise opposite.
Of course, the proper, and mannered, response would have been for Webb to decline the invitation altogether, which is what he should have done if he felt such antipathy towards the current POTUS.
But he couldn’t, really—one does not turn down an invitation to the White House when one is about to become a U.S. Senator. What Webb didn’t figure out, though, is that accepting the invitation carries a further responsibility of reciprocal good manners. Or he knew that, and decided to flaunt his bad manners anyway.
As for his little aside about wanting the deck GWB… that, for a U.S. Senator, is completely beyond the pale, and everyone except the most drooling moron at democratunderground.com knows it.
Webb should be censured for his display of churlish bad manners. Unfortunately, he probably faces nothing of the sort, or worse, he’ll probably be lionized in the Press for his “candor” or some such nonsense.
All I know is, I’d like to deck Webb for being such a scumbag. (That he’s an opportunistic, slimy little political turncoat is just added flavor.)
If the Democrats really think that our government should be “non-partisan” or “bi-partisan”, they ought to be more careful about whom they delegate into such positions. But they don’t, of course, because they’re the Party of Churls.
And we elected this lot to run Congress?
And my choice for President?
As long as we are playing fantasy politics here, I would go for Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Winston Churchill (yeah, yeah - I know) or Andrew Jackson. Ben Franklin would be close but he would rather be puttering around his BenCave(TM).
To deal with the Islamist shit that we are currently facing and get it done quickly, General John "Blackjack" Pershing would be awesome but he didn't "do" civilian life that well.
Oh well... 2008 will be interesting for sure.
Posted by DaveH at December 8, 2006 10:10 PM