I know! We could do an entire article in the paper of record about how no one can hear your message if everyone's talking about your clothes/hair/cleavage, which just aren't important but they really, really are, because secretly they tell us if you're gay or you're butch, because that is apparently the most important indicator of leadership potential, so we revel in these ever-changing codes and distractions and play at pooh-poohing these LCD "concerns" while perpetuating high drama at the expense of our ever-floundering democracy.Yeah!
Yes, we really need to jawbone this to death, because it is so relevant and meaningful, and adds so much to the discourse. Thank God it takes up valuable column inches in the New.York.Times.
Campaign Chic: Not Too Cool, Never Ever Hot.
“You neither want to be seen as somebody who cares too much about appearance or too little,” said Jay Fielden, the editor of Men’s Vogue. His magazine’s July-August cover shows John Edwards looking model-handsome and yet sufficiently populist. He wears, as Mr. Fielden pointed out, a Carhartt field coat from his own closet, presumably in an attempt to deflect scrutiny away from his wealth, his North Carolina McMansion and his costly grooming habits and toward the antipoverty agenda he pursued last week on a sweep through the South.
Please, baby Jeebus, please. I can't take any more! What, pray tell, is "looking sufficiently populist"? And how, pray tell, does one ensure that a Carhartt coat deflects from one's wealth, and why, pray tell, does that have anything to do w/ anything??
“There’s a strict code that’s kind of understood, but that you know these guys can’t talk about,” said Mr. Fielden, referring to sartorial guidelines whose very existence is subject to Beltway omerta. “If you get into a situation like McCain did, it ends up seeming like you’re being dressed by your mother. It’s not very macho.”
What "situation" did McCain get in? The completely manufactured one about "gay sweaters"?
Please, baby Jeebus, please, the Repugnicans have ruined our country. They've lied us into wars, looted the treasury, rendered entire words meaningless, lied, cheated, and stealed in every possible aspect of governing, engaged in an unprecedented and anti-Constitutional powergrab, and created a foreign policy based on torturing anyone who gets in our way. Why in heaven's name would "macho" be a positive consideration?
So, when a candidate appears to be dressed by others, immediately that candidate is interpreted “as gay or effeminate or not butch enough to be president,” Professor Miller said.
::ae falls in a heap weeping::
There's more (and worse), but I just don't have it in me to go on.
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