That's made me like him more than anything else I've seen or heard so far.
I think he's being guarded by Nash in that picture.
Although that's a haircut that deserves to be lost in the mists of time. I had a friend at MIT who came in as a freshman with that haircut, and then after Christmas break showed up with short dreads. About 4000% more attractive; I was kicking myself for not having gotten a jumpstart flirting with him before the flattering hairstyle.
Is it bad that Isaac Hayes songs are running through my head?
What's wrong with the hair? (I'm asking on w-lfs-n's behalf.)
7: Maybe your best comment ever. Salut!
Disturbingly round? I dunno, it just doesn't do it for me. I may be projecting unflatteringness because by the time I saw it on K., it was about a decade out of date, and just made him look geeky. In its proper temporal habitat, it mightn't have been so bad.
It's the preferred haircut of people who don't sign their comments.
A report on Barry's elementary school:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/22/cnn-obama-debunk/
Apparently, Fox are lying bastards. Who knew?
He was in a gang! And he's promoting underage drinking! He's finished.
It's ALL about the shirt. What colors do we think that was?
The shirt? I'm fixated on "WE GO PLAY HOOP". That'll be stuck in my head for days.
Could it have been anything other than avocado checked with desert sand?
That's a haircut for the ages. Shame on you haters.
And yeah, the shirt could be burnt orange and burnter orange.
15: Probably not.
Relatedly, my school pictures from 7-11th grade all but ensure that I will never, ever, ever run for public office...
God I hope this results in him going on Letterman to see if he can still dunk.
The cynic in me wonders what would have been made of this had he been running against Corker (of Playboy Harold Ford fame) in '04.
Wow, they have a yearbook at the secret radical fundamentalist madrassah. Who knew?
Spider babies. Millions of 'em.
Pic must be faked; I don't see the madrassah anywhere.
Wait, how sure are we that he could dunk?
Was Ogged actually noting the hair, or the "ebonics" in the caption of the first picture?
Anyway, I must say Barry O has become much more articulate since HS.
I think SCMT at 2 gets to the heart of the awesomeness.
Kissing Suzy Kolber was very gracious about Peyton, I must say.
20: No, the madrassah was his elementary school. Those tricksy Muslims are all about corrupting the young.
23: I think it's intended to be pidgin (aka Hawaiia creole English).
Although that's a haircut that deserves to be lost in the mists of time. I had a friend at MIT who came in as a freshman with that haircut, and then after Christmas break showed up with short dreads.
The main reason Obama's hairdo works in that picture is that the wide lapels balance out the bigness of the head/hair ensemble. I seem to remember lapels being much thinner in the eighties (am I correct in thinking that that's when you were in undergrad, LB?), which is probably why your friend didn't look too good when he tried that haircut. It's all about balancing the elements.
M/tch M/lls, fashion consultant to the stars.
I don't believe I ever saw K. in a garment with lapels, either skinny or wide.
Your mockery for considerations of appearance runs so fresh and constant I may have assumed an inordinate level of disrespect.
M/lls happens to be correct.
Happens? No, slol, I'm correct by design.
I don't believe I ever saw K. in a garment with lapels, either skinny or wide.
QED.
Poof.
Pro-Lifer.
Truth happens, M/lls. Just ask W/ll/am James.
I don't see lapels having the visual impact in that image that the collars do. Much of what we think of as the seventies, stylistically, lasted into and may even have peaked in the early eighties. By the late eighties, as in LB's example, it really was passe.
Obama asks FoxNews if they'd like to step outside. A good sign, this.