A Portrait of Obama Turning Gray
By Pat Racimora on July 30, 2008 at 9:20 AM in Barack Obama, Presidential Candidates
You can almost set your calendar by it. Our Presidents’ hair turns gray while in office. The cause has got to be that unrelenting, nerve-racking stress that automatically accompanies the most grueling job on the planet.
Leading the free world in times of acute crisis both here and abroad is a 180 from jogging along on the campaign trail. But Barack Obama is turning gray before our eyes, and he has not even been declared a candidate!
Can stress really hasten graying of the hair? Researchers suggest that it can. Stress induces hormones that could affect the melanin, the coloring agent in our hair and skin.
However one of the other writers at No Quarter hypothesized that perhaps Obama’s hair has been grayer all along, but he has been coloring it to attract the youth vote. Now that he has them rounded up, he desperately needs to attract the more mature vote, so it’s just growing out.
Even Obama isn’t denying the hair color changes. Politico reports that, “by his own admission this week, ‘the gray is coming quick,’ so that it now dusts his head like snowflakes. The laugh lines cut a little deeper, and the crow’s-feet around his eyes appear slightly more pronounced.”
So, is Obama stressed out before the curtain even opens on the first big act? If so, that’s stressful for the rest of us. Or, has this been a little campaign ploy all along?
Presidenting is hard!
Pretending to be the President must be hard, too. Or maybe Obama really does think he’s already the President, with the actual election being just an annoying technicality.
In the race for the White House, there are nearly twice as many uncommitted voters as there were four years ago in late July (see other recent demographic highlights). While much has been made of John McCain’s struggles with his party’s conservative base, 33% of the uncommitted voters are Democrats while only 19% are Republicans.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
Not to change the subject but this is unreal and so low class. Go to the Drudge Report and see the whole story that is linked. Top left of the page, just under McCain video link.
Ludacris Releases Song Attacking Hillary Clinton
Ludacris, rapper and avid supporter of Barack Obama (Obama once claimed to have Ludacris in heavy rotation on his iPod) has released a new song called ‘Politics: Obama Is Here’ in which he attacks Hillary Clinton as an ‘irrelevant bitch’.
Like what is she doing? She stepped back and supported the ONE.
I hope all the bitchez and hoz hold out on Luda and he IS sent to jail, not pardoned and gets TENDERIZED.
Being King of the World is hard work! Funny how I can see him hollering this on the bow of the Titanic — and we all know how that story turned out.
I agree..
http://nativeamericansagainstobama.wordpress.com/
Have you all read the article in today’s Washington Post: “President Obama continues hectic”
Will this Humpty Dumpty have a great fall?
Have you read the NYT article about Professor/Politician Obama?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25925202
Obama is not known for taking a stand on anything!
Just did–looks like the U. of C. was paying him for a postgrad course in politics and campaigning. Look at it. His courses are all he needed to know to get ahead in politics, he tried his ideas out on students. No doubt drew some conclusions about young students and how to game the system. Besides, he made good contacts networking in the legal system without actually having to work too hard or be exposed to criticism except in the University, where personality fights are well-known and tend to obscure judgement.
Obama is just another warmonger on the Middle East
Why oh why did I look up that link?
Now I feel ill.
OMG Pat, when I first saw the headline I thought it read….. GAY not GRAY!
I (again) fell off my chair.
Thanks for the morning chuckle! And here’s some fresh perspective for everyone (especially if you like the music of Enya - Boadicea)
This was a recommended hit on my you tube list. The Video is beautiful and really puts things into perspective for me.
Good Day NoQuarter! PUMA’s! President Hillary!!!
Being the King of the World is hard!
PUMA
That was Bush’s whine, too. Think Obama will need more vacations than Bush?
Do you think he will be bald by November?
If this gray is real, we might get lucky and see body parts falling off soon.
It would really be funny to see him in a hair hat with a Donald Trump comb-over after it all falls out.
I’ve repsented my theory before. It is that bo got the short end in his deal with the devil and the picture in the attic is getting better looking and the bo himself, well, isn’t.
Even his hair color is phony.
Very clever! And true…he’s doing everything possible to appear to be experienced, isn’t he?
Since when does Gray Hair come and go ? I started turning gray before the age of 30 ( I’m Black Irish and this is common in my family )….SEEEESH!
Funny Post Pat….great cartoon…
Yeah- my gray hair only comes and goes when I forget to buy a bottle of L’Oreal.
LOL….I finally gave up the struggle….My Gray came in so wierd I looked like a flock of birds had shit on the top of my head at 30…chuckle…
couple that with my impish Irish Freckles and I looked just stupid….Had to wait for the face to catch up & in this election season what the DNC & Obama have done to HRC added to what Bush et, al. I now proudly sport the appropiate wrinkles to match the hair….FREEDOM
( Of course in my family this only applies to the women….DAD didn’t get ANY gray till he hit 60….Jet Black till 60….No Justice….LOL )
*** Now I look like an old Punk….according to my daughter…LOL ***
Either way, something is fishy.
He’s just easing up on the old Grecian Formula, is all….
What I think too. Doesn’t Grecian Formula have mercury in it? I haven’t seen any for a while.
The RNC has Obama’s portrait locked up somewhere with the Whitey Tape.
The picture of Dorian Obama.
I love it!
“But Barack Obama is turning gray before our eyes, and he has not even been declared a candidate!” Sad to say, but he’s already “President Ombama”, according to the Washington Post: President Obama Continues Hectic Victory Tour.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/29/AR2008072902068.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR
NEWSPORN….Is a danger to your health….lol
I know this is a generalization, but blacks usually age so much better than whites, turn gray and wrinkle much later in middle-age. For a black man in his 40’s, NObama looks rough. Must be the genes from the Kansas side of the family. Maybe soon MEchelle will wake up screaming: “Help! There’s a white man in my bed!”
Ehemmm….Blame his Mommy and her evil CRACKER genes….
Yes, we all know that black don’t crack, so it must be the white folks blood in him.
OR, he looks ROUGH because he was a druggie and a cigarette smoker. That’ll age you REAL quick. OR, it could be that he’ll be 50 in a few years.
or..
D.: All of the above
They do not sleep in the same room. Michelle always says “his room” and talks about the kids sleeping with her.
What a surprise. I guess his orientation is no secret from her.
That was too funny!! You’re right, “black don’t crack” and he’s taking on the white part of his family! I still love him regardless of what race he is. No “Obama” is not “the one” there is only, one, “Jesus.”
God bless him and his family! See you at the inauguration!
Bad Numbers For Obama And DNC: PUMA POWER
while much has been made of John McCain’s struggles with his party’s conservative base, 33% of the uncommitted voters are Democrats while only 19% are Republicans. Forty-eight percent (48%) are not affiliated with either major political party
It’s worth noting that there are far more uncommitted voters at this point in Election 2008 than there were four years ago
This year, 37% of the uncommitted voters plan to vote for
http://countusout.wordpress.com/
Note to Pumas: (I’m an idependent so technically I can’t be in the club):
My husband has only voted for 3rd party or Republican nominees for president since he was 18. Last night he shocked me by saying he had been prepared to vote for his first Democrat: Hillary Clinton.
Yes and he is not the only one. Many Americans from all parties were preparing to vote for Hillary in the GE. Hillary can win! Hillary is miles ahead of these other candidates and is our only hope..Delegates? grow a spine..save America.
Obama is just another warmonger on the Middle East
Oh this guy, what he won’t do for effect. My hair is about 60-70 white, 30-40 black and I know from experience that you don’t grow a crop of white hair in a couple of months, So, one of 2 things is happening:
1. He had color on his hair (just for Men) and he’s allowing it to grow out so that appears to be a grown-up.
or
2. He’s frosting his hair for the white hair effect.
I think the answer is HE’S HAD COLOR ON HIS HAIR AND HE’S LETTING IT GROW OUT because that’s what it looks like.
A little more showmanship never hurts.
Now that the reparations boogeyman has been raised, by the precious himself, it will add another arrow to the very full quiver of negatives that the 527s can exploit.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052409/posts
He is what we knew he was.
Gee….Who gets to pay for that….and I guess Obama isn’t eligible WRIIIGHT ?
My ancestors paid at Antietam, Gettysburgh, Fredericksburg, Mannassas (I and II), and so on.
Ditto for me…two generations
How about reparations from the Africans who sold their people to the Europeans in the first place?
I want reparations from england for their oppression of my Irish and Scottish ancestors.
The wooly mammoths want reparations from the early americans for hunting them to extinction. The neanderthals want reparations from the cro-magnons.
The Roman Empire at its height extended from what is now England to Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Who did the emperors use to build the infrastructure of the Empire? Slaves.
Where did they get aforementioned slaves? Conquered territories.
Just because you’re Anglo doesn’t mean you don’t have slave ancestors.
This new bill mentions reparations, too.
House Formally Apologizes for Slavery and Jim Crow
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080729/D927Q66O0.html
Boy, we’ll have lots left over for this country after paying trillions for the Global (African) poverty bill and reparations, won’t we?
I want my piece of the roman empire, then.
This Mick is with you….I DEMAND THE QUEEN O’ ENGLAND HAND OVER THEM JEWELS….I need a New Car….
“The slave trade was an economic partnership initially between Arabs and Africans. It was later the Europeans entered the market. There is documentary evidence to indicate that the relationship between the African slave sellers and their European customers was quite collegial. Even to the extent that the offspring of African sellers were taken to England and America to be educated there and returned home.
The slave trade with the Europeans was so profitable for African nations that when Britain abolished the trade in 1807, many African nations protested. The Chief of the Ashanti nation wanted to know “if the slave trade was so good before why is it so bad now?”
African women also were involved in the business. One, Fenda Lawrence, operated a slave trading business on an island in the Gambia River. She later traveled to the colony of Georgia with an affidavit according her the rights of a free person.
There were many free blacks in the American colonies. They were enfranchised and as early as 1641, Mathias De Sousa, were elected to legislatures. These free blacks owned slaves–some for philanthropic reasons, as Carter G. Woodson suggests. However as John Hope Franklin wrote, “…free Negroes had a real economic interest in the institution of slavery and held slaves in order to improve their economic status.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/626149/posts
If Obama is so intent on helping the black citizens of the USA then he should guide them in the direction of his pockets, his and his families.
Does that mean we get free OIL ?
As a slav, believe me, my people were enslaved. Hmm, word root?
My first wife turned my hair gray at 29, and she was a metric shitload more agreeable and easier to look at than Queen Kong.
All in all, I’m astounded that the guy isn’t completely white-headed.
Isn’t there a NQ poster who reports the latest B.O. endorsements?
another one for your bucket, sir (or madam)
Sheesh, what is it with ‘murderers’ and Obama?
so woman’s role is to be looked at??
Your comment is offensiv, no matter which woman you are talking about.
If your hair turned gray at 29, it may have been in your genes
Jeez, Mirlo, you sound like a chardonnay drinker.
Mr. Dobbs is an equal opportunity satirist….and a Hoot to Boot….imho
Q: How many Feminists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: THAT’S NOT FUNNY!!!
Q: If a tree falls in the forest and there’s not a woman present to hear it…
A: OF COURSE IT’S YOUR FAULT, OPPRESSOR PIG!!!
Dobbs….I’m gonna loose this keyboard..LOL
you’re evil. evil, but funny
the gray hair is from a bottle.
they are now officially grasping at straws.
nothing can save the obobo from the ongoing long fall from “grace” that he so well qualifies for.
the full blame falls on the shoulders of the DNC elite. obobo is but the empty suit manchurian uncandidate. albeit a very willing one. the overall hubris inherent in his handlers,, himself, and all connected to him, is so inflated it has nowhere to go but down.
Hillary or McCain in 08.
No. The DARK hair was from a bottle. This guy is closing in on fifty, after all. Just because he looks like a twelve year old, and doesn’t have all that much more experience than a thirty year old, doesn’t mean he can’t age like the rest of us poor slobs.
He’s just combing in less, now, maybe he’s given it up altogether. Oh well, guess the “hotties” in the JUST FOR MEN commercial won’t be batting their eyes at him anymore….
Hmmm…..I guess Obama can add another point against MOMMY on the Gray hair…..It’s probably those Pesky CRACKER genes….Those Imperialistic Eurocentric Genes….lol
Exactly! “watch out Barky, your white side is showing”
Ohhhhhh, rejection! No play for Mr. Gray!
I was waiting on that one.
his face did look younger when he started, but middle age is middle age. Time doesn’t make exceptioms for self appointed messiahs. Hell, Mick Jagger is eligible for his pension this week.
No, it’s really hard to bleach black hair to white, but not so hard to go the other way, even having it come out gradually so it doesn’t show roots. (Plus, it’s so short, if it was coming in black under white hair it would look like Madonna)
If only there was something of substance besides his hair between those ears…
Gray isn’t so bad, it’s that creepy blue I can’t stand. What is it with him and that color? His wannabe presidential seal, his posters?
Yep, I think he’s desperately trying to appear more presidential. Wouldn’t surprise me if he’d deliberately trying to look older. LOL, but that’s going to be problem, standing next to McCain he’s just not going to be able to pull it off.
Trying to out-old McCain is foolish.
McCain makes Barbara Bush look like Miss Teen America.
You worry about Obama turning gray. I worry about McCain turning to powder.
We’re worried BOBO is keeping his powder on his noggin closer to his nose.
funny
And isn’t ageism as bad as racism?
Tsk,tsk,tsk.
Now kevin, surely you know nothing compares to racism; not sexism, not ageism, not homophobia, xenophobia or any other phobia.
I am a committed qualificationist, characterist, judgementist.
I practice qualificationism, characterism and judgementism.
I teach my kids to judge people by their qualifications, character and judgement.
Tell Barky to teach his kids that. all he teaches them is how to cheat.
When his kids asked him if he stole the votes after hearing it in the news, Barky says, “Uh, you just strip the opponent bare naked so they can’t win.”
Like it’s a rule of the game..
And his ‘church’ teachs the kids to hate America and white people. What a good daddy he is.
Depends upon whether or not you’re an old fart like me…I’m for a GeezerCentric WHite House!
“NEVER say Depends to an old person!”
OMG…ROFLMAO…not right….heehee
Blue…is cheaper….
Cadmiums and chromiums are being phased out and the replacements are expensive in inks and pigments ( advertising not internet )
I read that people in sales wear blue to close deals and red to gain the edge. If you want to seem powerful wear navy blue. Red makes you appear confident, and it makes your opponent nervous. The eye perceives it as advancing quickly and larger than it is. Blue soothes.
True Hope Floats….I’m just an artist who has been grousing about the unsuitable solution to the cadmium/chromium problem….It sucks….
Will that affect the world as we know it?
Nah…chuckle…only the quality of an obscure artists paintings…scuse’
Is your portfolio on line?
Well it’s a good thing he isn’t doing red, then cuz we’re mad enough with corpse like blue.
You forgot….his blue lips. Gack.
This video is so wonderful! It is uplifting and you can tell they worked hard at it. To the tune of These Boots are Made for Walking! Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBvP_O9AwKA
Thanks Larse, I love the video. Great job folks!
LOL, fun video, thanks.
The new gray hair look, whether from a bottle or from foregoing Nice n Easy is just another gimmick. Truth is, even though he now considers himself the world symbol of the Best of America, he is a disaster waiting to happen. If he paid me to vote for him I’d keep the money and still pull the lever for McCain.
the gray hair is nothing. You should see the picture of himself that he keeps in the closet.
http://fujichia.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/dorian-gray.JPG
There’s something different around the eyes though. Now that’s the change we’ve bee waiting for.
There’s something different around the eyes though. Now that’s the change we’ve been waiting for.
LOL! Good one.
this reminds me of an old Dilbert strip
“He’s tall, has executive style hair and we’re hoping it turns silver.”
Pointy haired boss
I wrote a post about this and my theory (involves the birth certificate)
http://tinyurl.com/54rggm
:O)
Money buys the super delegates!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPoV4diMjk