Aug 5, 2011
Pictures of the last 6 presidents before and after their terms
From CNN…
For Obama, it’s more of a then-&-now comparison rather than before-&-after, since he isn’t done yet…
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I’m so glad you didn’t post the racist version floating around the Internet where Obama’s after picture is Red Foxx.
Agreed.
Why is it racist? Because he is black he can’t be parodied at all? Was it racist when Bush was parodied left and right? No.
Ah. So now it’s called “parody”, eh? Interesting. Perhaps we should flash up a ” Parody” of Obama being hung from a tree, white-hooded ghosts looking on. You know…for Halloween. How droll! See, you can argue it into the ground, come up with erudite -sounding questions and answer them yourself, but you’re still wrong. Racism itself is still wrong. A parody is a parody. Racism is racism. Parody does not equal racism. It never did and it never will.
So why is it all of a sudden racism now. It’s called free speech. We earned the right to say what we want about the president and say whatever we want about him. I’m not making an exception because he is black. There were people making fun of Bush every goddamn day. Not a word was ever said. Now he is black and if you so much as disagree with him you are a racist.
Bryan,
You’re forgetting that the current definition of a racist is “anyone who disagrees with Obama.”
Using Redd Foxx as an “after” picture of Obama is not racist; Obama is an early-middle-aged black man, Foxx was an older black man. To portray the President as a monkey, a pig or some other animal (such as has been done endlessly with G.W. Bush and Sarah Palin (to name but two)) could be construed as racist; I don’t really see how comparing a black man to another black man is racist, though…
meh. While I’m certain it is a stressful job, I’m not too sure these pictures really say that much. Four to eight years is a long time in the normal aging process anyway, and many of these pictures were taken under vastly different circumstances with regards to lighting, makeup, angle, facial expression,etc.
I noticed that with the lighting and facial expression too. Most of the ‘before’ pictures were smiling while the ‘after’ pictures were serious or sad looking. I was surprised by how much grayer most of them got. I’d noticed that with Obama before too.
Yep…one more year. :)
…Until re-election, that is! ;)
Yahoo. Lets re-elect the guy that put the entirety of Goldman Sachs into the whitehouse and then signed an unconstitutional bill surpassing the right to fair trial and allows fir military imprisonment. Not to mention increasing the government debt and bringing our troops home over 3 years after he said he would, yah lets let this guy keep up the great job
I love you for that!!! Lol
I’ve noticed since I was in HS living outside of DC just how much the Presidents really DO age over the course of their terms. It is more dramatic IRL even than in pictures. I don’t even think these pictures portray it as accurately as I’ve observed. Nixon is another example. It’s not just the time passing, it is indeed the stressful duties & responsibilities, IMHO.
I don’t see much of a difference in Carter. I guess hostages in Iran just wasn’t stressful enough for him.
Are you kidding? It got so stressful for President Carter that he started having to part his hair on the other side! o.O
Also, I think two-term guys just let themselves go. They don’t have to run for re-election, so they leave out the Grecian hair formula.
obama IS done, actually
Yep! He’s nearly done with his first term. ;)
Serving second term in club gitmo for screwing over an entire nation?
I’ve noticed the premature aging too. I would hate to carry that burden of responsibility.
Someone forgot to say “May I” ( Giant steps), 2 steps foward and 3 back or was it the small print. NEXT !!!
Jimmy Carter went through so much stress his hair parted the opposite way by the end of his presidency.
obama FTW!!!