What’s so wrong with this picture, you ask?
It’s show’s President O. and his staff in the Oval office. AND THEY DON’T HAVE JACKETS ON!!!
QUELLE HORREUR!!!
This came as a shock to the White House staff and had the capital in a “tizzy” according to Old Gray Lady.
You see, ex-President Bush had a strict, ironclad rule of jackets and ties to be worn at all times in the Oval Office. Bush even prohibited a staffer from entering the Oval Office because the staffer had on khakis and a button down. Bush made said staffer stand just outside the Oval Office while he berated the staffer from inside the Oval Office.
So how dare this Obama guy take his jacket off inside the Oval Office?
It’s his damn office now, that’s how.
Obama apparently hates the cold and had the thermostat cranked up!
“He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.”
Over the weekend, Mr. Obama’s first in office, his aides did not quite know how to dress. Some showed up in the West Wing in jeans (another no-no under Mr. Bush), some in coats and ties.So the president issued an informal edict for “business casual” on weekends — and set his own example. He showed up Saturday for a briefing with his chief economic adviser, Lawrence H. Summers, dressed in slacks and a gray sweater over a white buttoned-down shirt. Workers from the Bush White House are shocked.
White House Unbuttons Formal Dress Code [NYT]
