Bush Busted In Black Crocs, Presidential Socks (PHOTO)

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Yesterday's edition of the New York Post saw President Obama in Hawaii, clad in an ill-fitting polo shirt, board shorts, wraparound wire-rim shades, standard-issue White Sox cap, and (gasp) flip-flops--a breed of "wimpy" footwear the Post notes is "favored by his core demographic: college kids" and, the paper asserts, a presidential "first" ("I can't say I've seen a president's toes before," historian Jane Hampton Cook concurs).

We can't help but think of the Midterm Style Report Card we filed on Obama's sartorial proclivities back in November, in which we surfaced prior photographic evidence of the presidential feet making a mandal-sheathed public appearance (as well as a few more Blackberry-waving shots snapped at the shaved-ice stands of our nation's 50th state).

The Post does raise a good question, though. "Should the leader of the free world dress like this--even on vacation?," yesterday's cover line asked. To which we'd reply: Probably not. But to be fair to Barry, it's far from the first time an American president has looked so unseemly. Case in point, another shot the Post happened to include in their story...

Black Crocs, presidential seal-emblazoned golf socks, Scottie dog-emblazoned baseball cap... Should the leader of the free world dress like this?

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Comments

[marijam]

01:15 PM on 01/17/2011

Just like a real person who just wants to be comfortable.

[chedet]

04:20 PM on 01/10/2011

He's a leader of the "free world". Shouldn't he be "free" to choose anything he likes to wear?

[slappymaxwell]

11:41 AM on 01/10/2011

As much as I can't stand W, This is just as lame as criticizing Obama.
They AREN'T golf socks.
They are mountain bike socks that say 'Peloton One'.
A reference to a pack of cyclist in bike racing.
He probably just finished one of his many rides and removed his bike shoes for Crocs.

[schnauzergirl]

02:21 PM on 01/13/2011

Exactly. Those socks were something he had made up (which is why they have the eagle on them) for the mountain biking gang he goes out with. A "peloton" (from French, literally meaning little ball or platoon), refers to a field, bunch or pack in the large main group of riders in a road bicycle race.

Just like any of the airplanes he is on is Airforce One, they were trying to be cute. Here the peloton he is part of is "peloton one"

[Rita F Real]

07:34 AM on 01/10/2011

Lookin cool dude!

[SAVEME]

09:05 PM on 01/09/2011

It doesn't matter. I love crocs myself. And....he was never really a leader was he?

[andy deer]

03:21 PM on 01/09/2011

"Free world"

[Sewingpattern]

02:45 PM on 01/09/2011

Nice shoes

[Eli Dirkx]

02:00 PM on 01/09/2011

Doesn't really matter much compared to the shooting not so long ago, but what the hell.
I wear white crocs with black socks, and no hard feelings here.

[Lohan7]

01:40 PM on 01/09/2011

He's an American. He can dress any way he pleases and that makes him comfortable.

[Gerard Falls]

01:13 PM on 01/09/2011

I badly want of pair of those socks

[LoHaze]

12:46 PM on 01/09/2011

The flip flops make Obama look wimpy, but who cares? As for the Bush picture - if it's new, he's not the President anymore - isn't he just a private citizen? (and frankly his legs look great for a man his age!)

[LadyLeslie]

12:25 PM on 01/09/2011

Why can't the president wear whatever he wants on vacation?

[CubanVoice]

11:18 AM on 01/09/2011

This comic relief is very welcome given the other news of the weekend.

[nelore]

11:06 AM on 01/09/2011

Hope Obama's flip flop is the real thing..Brazil's "havainas"..they don't smell and the strings don't come loose.they last forever. I got 4 pairs myself.

[Dee Dee Fredin]

10:57 AM on 01/09/2011

He is NOT the leader of the free world anymore!

[xlntcat]

03:59 PM on 01/09/2011

You are assuming that this is a recent photo versus one taken while he was president as insinuated in the article.