While complaining about how John Roberts children were attired, Robin Givham said this as a little aside:
(And someone should have given notice to the flip-flop-wearing women of Northwestern University's lacrosse team, who visited the White House on July 12 for a meet-and-greet with the president: proper footwear required. Flip-flops, modeled after shoes meant to be worn into a public shower or on the beach, have no business anywhere in the vicinity of the president and his place of residence.)
The gist of the article is that there's something sinister about the way the Roberts children were dressed.
The wife wore a strawberry-pink tweed suit with taupe pumps and pearls, which alone would not have been particularly remarkable, but alongside the nostalgic costuming of the children, the overall effect was of self-consciously crafted perfection. The children, of course, are innocents.
Really, I think it's just the short pants on the boy that have her alarmed, but it's July in Washington, DC. There's also this:
Are all little boys now named Jack?
Many more complaints in her article, of course.
Posted by nicole at July 23, 2005 07:58 PMThat little kid looked a LOT like John John Kennedy at his Dad's funeral.
>>shudder
Posted by solomon roebling at July 26, 2005 08:56 AMI don't care much for the news as a whole (I know how ridiculous that sounds, but look what we're talking about), but as a kid in Houston, TX, we called those shoes THING-THONGS, and went on to call them thongs. Before the underwear was so widely known. There was also a very popular beach THING-THONG called TIDDIES, with a logo of two breast-looking smiling cartoon characters, with nipple-like hats. Very funny for an eight-year old. NICOLE - CALL ME PLEASE.
Posted by luby at August 15, 2005 12:06 PM