AS MY GRANDMOTHER USED TO SAY, LORD HELP THE CHURCH!
WHAT CAN I SAY, Barbwa, except in this case, your case, less is definitely more. Just because something like a necklace is in so-called fashion doesn't mean it works for you, especially at your age. All this necklace lacks is a ball and chain attached and drug around on the ground behind you. And that purse really needs to go. While I don't totally hate this outfit like the one Whoppi wore hosting the Oscars, I in no way like or love it either. Too many black beads and other confetti/gay divorcee stuff goin' on for my taste.
To be fair though, you're no spring chick and yet you still carry yourself well, have kept your figure in some semblance of order and look like you're on your way to having a wonderful time at this year's libtard bash-fest which served up conservatives as the main course and pate de Rush before, during and afterwards. Buy hey, I'm not complaining....the more you skewer Rush, the better his ratings are gonna be.
The frills are for a younger women - probably no older than 35ish. The frills express: I am going out to have some fun tonight! I am happy to be out. I'm a fun girl. Let's have some laughs. One is never too old to be fun. However, Barbara is old enough to have acquired some polish, wisdom, and grace which a 35 year old does not possess. Barbara's formal gowns and dresses should reflect the gravitas she has acquired over an interesting lifetime; should reflect an appreciation of classically beautiful things which she has acquired; should reflect judgment and taste.
ReplyDeleteThe frills do not reflect this. The frills belittle Barbara, belittle her gravitas, belittle the grace and taste she ought be celebrating.
As always, I am giving the fashion perspective of a man who does not know anything about fashion. We are an undersampled majority, and I feel compelled to represent us!
Couldn't agree with you more. And I'd say, you represent that unsampled male majority with dead-on insight. What man needs to know anything about fashion anyway except what his best instincts tell him? She ought to be able to do better than this with all her experience with these kinds of shindigs. Maybe her uber-Obama exhuberance got the best of her fashion good sense here.
ReplyDeleteWeb, I watched the entire dinner on C-SPAN. Although it made me cringe, it made my blood pressure rise, but I endured. Not sure if that was a good thing for me! Such hatefulness, to joke about someone dying of kidney failure. And the way the president chorkled?? Did you see Michelle do the punching with her BARE arms when Mr. O. mentioned them? Not very first lady like in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteGuess someone had to watch it Pam, and glad it was you. Agree that Michelle exhibits traits that are not very first ladyish. She'd rather be hip and considered buff with the masses, je suppose. Ah well.....
ReplyDeleteLemme guess...y'all missed the WHCD when George Bush chuckled and joked about "finding" the weapons of mass destruction in the Oval Office. I know, I can see you laughing now! It was HILARIOUS - I mean, at that point, only several thousand American troops died in Iraq under the rationale of finding Saddam's WMD that threatened the US. Funny stuff, that.
ReplyDeleteThe GOP should change it's name to the "Party of the Perpetually Outraged". Not a day goes by that you don't get your collective feelings hurt, like whiny school children on the playground.
p.s. Again with the libtard reference? Your kids must be so proud...
As we all know and shall not belabor here today, V, the WMD issue was only ONE of the rationales for Iraq.
ReplyDeleteBTW, on my earlier blog you can find my discussion with the last UN WMD inspector to leave Iraq before the US went in---during my flight to Tel Aviv from Newark who told me there was no question, NO QUESTION in anyone's mind Saddam did have WMDs in Iraq....some went to Syria, some buried in the vast sands outside the big cities.....and we won't even discuss how much the Clinton administration agreed and spoke of the WMDs in Iraq.
I'm not questioning the WMD rationale. My husband served in the Iraq War, so I don't need you to tell me why he fought there. But thanks anyways.
ReplyDeleteI'm pointing out that you conservatives had no problem with W joking around looking for them in the Oval Office, under his desk, behind the curtains, etc. Thousands of American troops had been killed or wounded - not to mention the Iraqi casualties - when he made the joke. I guess I just don't get it...or find it funny.
I say let's ban all humor at all times in all places, so we never run the risk of someone being offended or not getting it...we can all go around solemn faced wringing our hands and beating our chests, screaming "Woe is us!"
ReplyDeleteBTW, stand clear, V, and lock your doors, I'll be out on the Capital Crest today having a wretchedly good time...and laughing at some politically bawdy jokes....
"I say let's ban all humor at all times in all places, so we never run the risk of someone being offended or not getting it..."
ReplyDeleteComing from soneone who spends about 65% of her time being offended at whatever it is that the VRWC tells you to be upset about, I find it hard to believe that'll work for you...but hey, if you want to laugh about jokes about our rationale for the Iraq War, be my guest...
What's the Capital Crest?
I know this will come as a shock to you, V, however no one, no group, no party, no conservative women's group, no man, no woman, no child, no love interest, no cliche on the web (espeically one that rubs each other's back) tells me what to like, laugh at, dislike or be offended by or be enthralled with. Not now, not ever. If there's something I can't walk away from and differ from then it's someone or something I've lost my power to. And nothing intersts me less.
ReplyDeleteYou and I must be living on very different worlds.
Uh huh. It's funny...sometimes I check out what you're offended at, and to my utter shock, the IBD, the WSJ, Rusty Limbaugh, Drudge, etc, are all offended by the exact same thing! Who woulda guessed it? Why, it's a festivus miracle!!
ReplyDeleteSaying we live in two different worlds is beyond an understatement. I'd invite you to join me here in the reality-based community but you wouldn't like it - it's got a well known liberal bias. And lots of libtards.
For me, V, I'm usually moved by principles---not what something or someone else tell me...
ReplyDeleteGood night.
The comments were better than the post. Still laughing...
ReplyDeleteAddendum to Barbwa's dress...she wore it three times in a row to three functions all in the same week...May 5th, May 9th, and May Sunday or Monday...then went on The View bragging about the dress code vialation with pictures of her at each function because she said she just simply really liked the dress that much...I am not youtube savvy but that video might make a nice addendum to your story
ReplyDeleteThanks for the suggestion, SB. Tried to find this on YouTube and can't but it may turn up later and post it if it does. How sobering that she wore that dress three times in a row! Mercy me.
ReplyDeleteSB, thanks for sending the link from ABC News to my g-mail. Have tried to load it and watch several times but it won't. Appreciate your efforts nonetheless and will try again later when I get back to Nashville. Best wishes.
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