AOL headline: Flipflop flap at White House!

[senseandsensibility]

When I saw this, cynical as I am, I actually thought that they were calling * on his hideous, blatant flipflop yesterday over suitable punishment for rove. But nooooooo....it seems that the AOL startscreen space is being used to distract and deflect once again.
The headline refers to actual flipflop sandals and someone wearing them to the white house and disrespectin dubya. I guess. I refused to click on it.:puke:

[kainah]

1. a big laugh

I actually bought the domain name flipflopflap.com last year because I thought it was a perfect description of his scandals. I never did anything with it and it's probably an available domain name today, if anyone wants to bite. :-)

[senseandsensibility]

2. For some reason that term is never applied to the chimp

although he's earned it more than any other politician. Grrr....

[kainah]

9. I know

but I noticed towards the end of 2003 that if you wanted to look for any problem/scandal in his administration, the term to use was "flap." Everything he did wrong was a "flap." So, to me, flipflopflap was the perfect summary.

[Double T]

3. I think a representative group from DU should visit the White House and...

president bush and we should all go barefoot.

[Nia Zuri]

4. Flip flops are actually quite chic right now...some going for $800 plus

[ladjf]

5. Hey, lay off of Bush. He's already said that if anyone gets

convicted of a crime (and therefore sent to jail), he will fire that person. After all, it would be rather difficult for Rove to operate from prison. Such class! Such high moral standards. Bush has truly brought integrity back to the White House.

[Hobarticus]

6. Keep them feet off the Oval Office furniture!

The cranky old man in charge will get out his BB gun!

[rainbow4321]

7. The team is donating the shoes to a fund for a 10 yr old w/ brain tumor

http://www.kotv.com/main/home/storiesNL.asp?whichpage=1&id=86990

During an appearance Monday on NBC's ``Today,'' Darmody and teammate Shelby Chlopak said players planned to auction off the flip-flops they wore to the White House, with the proceeds to go toward a fund for a 10-year-old girl with a brain tumor


The women have defended their attire, arguing they wore a dressier version of the casual sandal.``Nobody was wearing old beach flip-flops,'' said Josephs, who wore a $16 brown pair with rhinestones.


http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-flipflops.artjul18,0,5412390.story?&track=rss

Before visiting the White House, Kate Darmody carefully planned her outfit. She bought a sundress from Ann Taylor. She put on a strand of white pearls.

And then she slipped on flip-flops to meet the president. So did about half of her teammates from the national championship Northwestern University women's lacrosse team, invited to the White House last Tuesday after a 21-0 season.


"Nobody was wearing old beach flip-flops," said Josephs, 20, who wore $16 brown, flat flip-flops with rhinestones, one of about 15 pairs in her closet. Darmody, 22, who decided on a wedge-heel flip-flop, said: "I tried to think of something that would go well with my outfit and at the same time not be that uncomfortable. But at the same not disrespect the White House."

Even Joe Guidry, a salesman at the upscale Stuart Weitzman store on Michigan Avenue, said he wouldn't advise women to wear the company's $150 flip-flops to the White House. "Meeting the president? I personally wouldn't wear them," he said. White House spokeswoman Erin Healy wouldn't comment on whether the White House has a dress code.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. You mean someone who works there?

So I guess those who wear flip flops are less professional?

It sure wouldn't surprise me if georgie has crazy ideas about dress codes. He strikes me as a bit of a control freak.