My second favorite guy in the world, our President, is taking a lof of flack for wearing "mom jeans" when he threw out the first pitch at the Major League All Star game on July 14th in Saint Louis. Everyone seems to be having a good laugh about it. CNN mentioned it AGAIN at 6:24 this morning.
Even TV GUIDE, not exactly GQ, complains the jeans were a "denim disaster", stating the "mom jeans" were the wrong color, wrong length, too high waisted......and should have been left behind back in the Bush era. So, if the publication that sits on everyones grand patent's side table next to the remote control and the Rolaids says the President's jeans are nerdy.........well, they MUST BE!
But think about this for a moment. What if our Prez had shown up in St. Louis, rockin a pair of low-slung Ed Hardy jeans that drug the ground with skulls all over the butt? He might have looked much cooler, but I have a feeling TV Guide and every other media outlet would be running headlines about the "scary looking African American from the South-side of Chicago, setting a bad example for the youth of America...".
President Obama has told us time after time that is wife is the fasionista, not him. He hates to shop, and until recently, only owned four suits that he wore until the finish rubbed off the fabric and they became shiny. The guy obviously doesn't have a stylist, and probably doesn't spend a lot of time in his closet pondering what to wear. But at least he isn't out for a "media jog" in short-shorts or wearing a belt buckle the size of Texas.
I thought we liked the nerdy aspects of this guy. There is something very comforting about a president who may be the most intellectual person who ever held the job and also looks like the guy next door who washes his car and his kid's bike in the driveway and grills in the backyard on the weekends.
Give the guy a break. So what if he reached into his closet and pulled out his favorite, soft and comfortable pair Levis that may or may not have faded in color or drawn up an inch or so in length due to too many washings? What middle-aged dad in America HASN'T done this?
The real story here is that Fox Sports completely bungled the REAL STORY. They showed the President take the mound, wind up and release the ball. Millions and millions of television viewers never got to see where that ball went or who the catcher was, due to a very bad camera angle. Where is the TV Guide story about that?
