The Septimus Notes

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

In watching the debate tonight (live on my laptop thank you very much the future is here the future is portable!), it occurred to me that (and this may have been said previously by someone with much greater credentials than myself) Senator Kerry just doesn't look like a President.

You know that picture, every President has one, of him sitting in the Oval Office in a semi-casual state of affairs. He's probably still wearing a tie, but the suit jacket is slung over the back of his chair, if in the photograph at all, and he's leaning far back in his chair or perhaps he's in front of his desk. If in front of his desk, he's probably petting his dog. It seems to look, often, as if the President and his peeps were wrapping up the end of a long, arduous meeting and just when they were at the tippy-tip end of their policizing rope, someone (a daughter? a dog? something loveable to be sure) bursts into the meeting, disrupting everything. And the President probably says something like, "Looks like Buttons thinks we've had enough!" and everyone is laughing, politely and not too uproariously because there is a photographer just right in the room and overlaughing never looks good in photographs.

I can't put Senator Kerry's face in this photograph. I regret to realize that the sheepishly ignorant look of our current Mr. President fits in seamlessly.

Oh what does November hold for the fate our nation's hallowed institution of candid Presidential photographs?

promulgated by SWS2.1 at 22:52.
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