Color Purple

The most telling picture from Obama's visit to the White House Monday was sartorial in nature. For some reason (was this proposition 9?) purple has been chosen as the color of bipartisanship. Both men chose their ties in a purple shade to send a signal of forgiving, of letting bygones be bygones. But the choice is telling. Obama's tie is thinner to Bush's wide polka-dotted albatross. Bush's hangs like a heavy paisley noose on his neck, while Obama's looks cooler, like Prince's jheri curl or something. He can just pull it off. Someone was saying that Obama is going to be hard to make fun not because he's so serious, but because he's so cool. Is style a partisan matter? Or a question of temperament? On the other hand, Jeremy Langmead of Esquire, says that someone should cinch Obamba's trouser legs. They're getting too red.