Why was Baker in a brilliant RED scarf?

[partylessinOhio]

Most all the attendees at today's service for President Ford wore appropriate dark, mostly black clothing but James Baker wore a light tan overcoat with a brilliant red scarf around his neck. Was he sending a signal to someone?

Honorary pallbearers arrive for the transportation of former U.S. President Gerald Ford's casket to his State funeral in Washington January 2, 2007. They are (L-R) former Secretary of State James Baker, former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Vice President Dick Cheney, and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan.

[madeline_con]

1. It's a fashion statement..

It says, "I wasn't taught to dress appropriately. Mama tried."

[MaineDem]

2. I was hoping it would say "former Vice President" too

Someday soon...

[Richardo]

3. Because Cheney wouldn't lend him his parka?

:shrug:

[terrya]

4. James Baker is heterosexual...

before anyone goes down THAT route...

[monmouth]

6. Oh for Gawd's sake........

[w4rma]

20. ?

Are you trying to say that heterosexual men aren't good at dressing ourselves?

I agree. But I don't think that's why Baker was wearing that bright red scarf.

[valerief]

5. Affirming his allegiance to red states? nt

[KoKo]

7. It was very strange. Totally inappropriate. Was his luggage lost or did

he have some other mishap?

[Virginia Dare]

8. It looks very odd...

on a different topic, wow, what a collection of evil geniuses.

[partylessinOhio]

9. A closer view:

Four evil men: Cheney, Baker, Rumsfeld and Dole.

[kestrel91316]

12. Dole's fuchsia tie is JUST AS BAD. OMG.

How the hell does one spell FUSCHIA? Which is right?

[Pied Piper]

18. I thought the corpse was supposed to be IN the casket

Oops, my bad. That's Bob Dole.

[Conscious Confucius]

22. Republican or not, I still like Bob Dole.

He has good comedic chops.

[DoYouEverWonder]

25. Why do these bastards

get to live forever?

[mitchleary]

10. It is

his turn to man the glory hole at the RNC headquarters?

[MonkeyFunk]

11. What sort of message?

and to whom?

Who needs to receive a message from Baker that he can't reach on the phone? Why would he have to resort to sartorial semaphore?

[Freddie Stubbs]

19. Bilderbergs, Illuminatti, Trilateral Commission?

;)

[yellowcanine]

13. Maybe he is color blind. Or just a doofus. Or both.

[DoYouEverWonder]

26. No, they do it on purpose

Everything they do in public is very calculated.

[salin]

14. to keep from being Chilly?

Maybe he's colorblind? Maybe it is a shout out for Ohio State Football?

Doubt it means much at all.

[Uncle Joe]

15. It's to represent the blood,

bushco has spilled after Baker helped enable them to power during the coup of 2000, with the refrain of they have counted the ballots over and over, when they never counted them in the first place.

[rusty_parts2001]

16. Its simple: He's a showoff.

[Odin2005]

17. I don't see the problem, it's a frigging SCARF.

And I hate the "you are supposed to wear dark stuff to the funeral" BS, a funeral should be about celebrating the perso's life, not mourning the person.

[DoYouEverWonder]

27. Yes, it is

when you do it on purpose.

Especially, when it's someone who never dresses in anything other the black normally.

[JerseygirlCT]

21. That he's without any sense of propriety? nt

[DemBones DemBones]

23. For a state funeral, people normally dress in dark colors,

especially those who are pallbearers, honorary pallbearers, people speaking at the funeral.

And people like James Baker almost certainly own more than one topcoat and scarf, or could have bought more appropriate attire before the funeral.

It's odd.

[MiniMe]

24. Why was he wearing a tan trenchcoat?

If you watched the part of the funeral where they were outside the Capitol, he stuck out like a sore thumb, the only person that didn't have a dark coat on.