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Shirtless Obama Magazine Cover - Going Too Far?

ClubRRCindi
Posted:
2009-05-12 6:03 PM
An issue of Washingtonian magazine featured President Obama shirtless and in swim shorts on its cover, with the line: “Our New Neighbor Is Hot.” Did the magazine go too far?
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janie_dough
Posted:
2009-05-13 12:27 PM
LOL! Of course they didn't go too far! Pres Obama was on vacation - what did they want him to do ... wear a three-piece suit to the beach? Plus, he does look hot and it's fine to say so!

peterphil
Posted:
2009-05-13 2:59 PM
Hey, he's gotta compete against those topless Putin photos!

SamanthaLee
Posted:
2009-05-13 4:01 PM
janie_dough said @ 2009-05-13 12:27:00:
LOL! Of course they didn't go too far! Pres Obama was on vacation - what did they want him to do ... wear a three-piece suit to the beach? Plus, he does look hot and it's fine to say so!
Vacation? He doesn't deserve a vacation yet.

SamanthaLee
Posted:
2009-05-13 4:02 PM
janie_dough said @ 2009-05-13 12:27:00:
LOL! Of course they didn't go too far! Pres Obama was on vacation - what did they want him to do ... wear a three-piece suit to the beach? Plus, he does look hot and it's fine to say so!
Yeah he's hot but so is Britney (and alot of other people for that matter).

janie_dough
Posted:
2009-05-13 5:10 PM
Samantha - the picture being discussed was taken before the inauguration and following the campaign and election, when he was in Hawaii visiting family.


peterphil
Posted:
2009-05-13 5:24 PM
SamanthaLee said @ 2009-05-13 16:01:14:
janie_dough said @ 2009-05-13 12:27:00:
LOL! Of course they didn't go too far! Pres Obama was on vacation - what did they want him to do ... wear a three-piece suit to the beach? Plus, he does look hot and it's fine to say so!
Vacation? He doesn't deserve a vacation yet.
Doesn't every president get to take off a third of their presidency? Or is that only if you have brush to clear?

Lizla
Posted:
2009-05-13 10:35 PM
I think the cover went too far -- not because our president was shirtless, but because of the way the magazine editors chose to portray the president -- as a typical sexy cover model. If the picture had been of him and the family enjoying time at the beach and inside the magazine it would have been different.

SamanthaLee
Posted:
2009-05-14 9:37 AM
Lizla said @ 2009-05-13 22:35:42:
I think the cover went too far -- not because our president was shirtless, but because of the way the magazine editors chose to portray the president -- as a typical sexy cover model. If the picture had been of him and the family enjoying time at the beach and inside the magazine it would have been different.
Good point. Your idea of a picture would have been much better. I guess it probably wouldn't have sold as many copies and that's waht it's all about.

lothuial
Posted:
2009-05-14 9:49 AM
I think He looks fab! Very athletic. and yes he does deserve a vacation. More some!
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SamanthaLee
Posted:
2009-05-14 9:58 AM
He does look great. I guess he does deserve a vacation then. My bad.

How Shallow.

knitnmom
Posted:
2009-05-16 9:09 AM
janie_dough said @ 2009-05-13 12:27:00:
LOL! Of course they didn't go too far! Pres Obama was on vacation - what did they want him to do ... wear a three-piece suit to the beach? Plus, he does look hot and it's fine to say so!
Why in the world would someone go to the beach in anything but swimwear. If he had worn something else, someone would have complained anyway. You're on a beach, you wear swimwear. He just happens to have a body to go with it.

Catrina01
Posted:
2009-05-16 9:37 AM
SamanthaLee said @ 2009-05-14 09:37:49:
Lizla said @ 2009-05-13 22:35:42:
I think the cover went too far -- not because our president was shirtless, but because of the way the magazine editors chose to portray the president -- as a typical sexy cover model. If the picture had been of him and the family enjoying time at the beach and inside the magazine it would have been different.
Good point. Your idea of a picture would have been much better. I guess it probably wouldn't have sold as many copies and that's waht it's all about.

I agree! Things can still be done tastefully! How often do you see such photos during campaign? Or for CEO's of corportations? Tacky!

Glassy_Fun
Posted:
2009-05-16 10:13 AM
SamanthaLee said @ 2009-05-13 16:01:14:
janie_dough said @ 2009-05-13 12:27:00:
LOL! Of course they didn't go too far! Pres Obama was on vacation - what did they want him to do ... wear a three-piece suit to the beach? Plus, he does look hot and it's fine to say so!
Vacation? He doesn't deserve a vacation yet.

This is just inapropriate. The Office of the Presidency of the U.S. should be treated with more dignity..meaning we should be focused more on what he is doing as President not what he looks like with his shirt off. Give this country a break!!!

joken7072
Posted:
2009-05-16 11:54 AM
peterphil said @ 2009-05-13 14:59:25:
Hey, he's gotta compete against those topless Putin photos!

joken7072
Posted:
2009-05-16 11:57 AM
Who cares if Obama is "hot". I care that he takes care of our business, spends less money and is a good president. What happened to respect for the office of president? And, what about we, the people, and our rights? We deserve a president and congress that uses our tax money wisely. So far, this is not true.

jamafrog
Posted:
2009-05-16 1:11 PM
They mak a big deal out of the dumbest things in the world! We all take our clothes off,even the president!

gooeycake
Posted:
2009-05-16 9:13 PM
LOL! I soooo agree with you!

scarletgrey
Posted:
2009-05-17 1:51 AM
The media needs to concentrate on what he is doing instead of his socalled hot body, and his wife for that matter. It's not about a hot president, it's what he is doing for our country. So far the media just totally loves him and won't say anything negative about him. What's more where is the criticism of him leaving the White House so much? He has been away from the White House more than he has been there. Right now our country is in bad shape, and it needs to be fixed. The economy is getting worse and worse, and the media doesn't seem to care. What are they Ken and Barbie? I'm sick of it!
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SamanthaLee
Posted:
2009-05-17 11:12 AM
scarletgrey said @ 2009-05-17 01:51:37:
The media needs to concentrate on what he is doing instead of his socalled hot body, and his wife for that matter. It's not about a hot president, it's what he is doing for our country. So far the media just totally loves him and won't say anything negative about him. What's more where is the criticism of him leaving the White House so much? He has been away from the White House more than he has been there. Right now our country is in bad shape, and it needs to be fixed. The economy is getting worse and worse, and the media doesn't seem to care. What are they Ken and Barbie? I'm sick of it!
I agree. The media treats them "celeb like". It's so "Red Carpet" sometime. They are so much bigger than that and it should be treated that way.

rokad
Posted:
2009-05-17 2:37 PM
Toooooo much about that pair being "hot." Where is respect for the job? That cover brought him DOWN to the level of an entertainer! A nice photo of him AND his family enjoying the beach would've been ok. Focus on the job he was elected to do, not his half naked body.

bingolooser
Posted:
2009-05-17 3:11 PM
SamanthaLee said @ 2009-05-14 09:37:49:
Lizla said @ 2009-05-13 22:35:42:
I think the cover went too far -- not because our president was shirtless, but because of the way the magazine editors chose to portray the president -- as a typical sexy cover model. If the picture had been of him and the family enjoying time at the beach and inside the magazine it would have been different.
Good point. Your idea of a picture would have been much better. I guess it probably wouldn't have sold as many copies and that's waht it's all about.


poohbear37
Posted:
2009-05-18 12:15 AM
ClubRRCindi said @ 2009-05-12 18:03:28:
Pres Obama didn't do anything wrong, but I feel that the magazine went to far by puting him on the cover like that.

rokad
Posted:
2009-05-18 12:52 AM
Of course, the magazine went too far. Can't they find enough good stuff he's done on the job to fill their pages? Do they have to turn him into a magazine sexy cover boy to make the public appreciate him?

hdtrikelady
Posted:
2009-05-18 10:41 AM
He is hot! I happened to be visiting my sister in Kailua at the same time and got to watch him and his family...from VERY afar with binoculars. You couldn't get near that part of the beach until after him and his family had left.
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