Latest Flip-Flop At White House Involves Lacrosse Team

[matcom]

<snip>

CHICAGO -- The latest White House flip-flop controversy has nothing to do with President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry.

After Northwestern University's national championship women's lacrosse team visited the White House, a group photo showed several players wearing flip-flop sandals along with their dresses and skirts.

A controversy quickly followed, with one front-page headline quoting an e-mail sent to a player: "YOU WORE FLIP-FLOPS TO THE WHITE HOUSE?!" Family members of other players were also dismayed, saying the footwear was too casual for a visit with the president.

The young women, meanwhile, are trying to turn the controversy around. The players plan to auction off their White House flip-flops -- and give the proceeds to a 10-year-old girl with a brain tumor.

http://www.wftv.com/irresistible/4737036/detail.html

[ClintonTyree]

1. Too casual to wear for a visit with..........

a guy who thinks cowboy boots and a bolo tie are acceptable formal, black tie evening wear. :eyes: Riiiiight! Too casual to wear in the company of a woman who constantly removes the draperies from the White House windows to cover her hideous form. Riiiiight! :eyes:

Don't worry about it ladies, you did fine. If these folks have nothing better to complain about, they need to get new lives.

[matcom]

5. .

:rofl:

[liberal N proud]

2. Too casual to wear to meet a chimp who thinks he is president

Maybe they new what they were doing.


On the other hand, these kids saw no harm, they would wear those flip flops anywhere, I noticed at my daughters graduation in June that many of the girls wore flip flops as the accepted their diplomas.

[ET Awful]

3. Hey ladies, if the President was doing his job, that 10 year old girl

wouldn't need the donations from your flip-flop sales.

[Orsino]

4. Breaking News on CNN Right Now!!!!!

They'll do anything to avoid the real White House story, won't they? Including a longer interview with the just-ate-a-coat-hanger grin of the WH social director than any examination they've given Plamegate.

[Beware the Beast Man]

6. Sniffa- we should start bidding now!!!

:evilgrin:

[sniffa]

16. DU the poLL!!!

no pix? :wtf:

i think i shouLd start a 'DU this poLL' thread.

[Beware the Beast Man]

18. Here you go- with pics!

:9

http://www.southflorida.com/news/sfl-715flipflops,0,2630510.story

[sniffa]

19. ooh La La

:9

i can't beLieve they embarrassed their mothers Like that.

[Hugin]

20. I agree.

Geeze, it has been seriously freeped.

[Hugin]

7. Stupid... Really honestly stupid.

It's all over... No more super-power.

The "Golden Age" is over.

There's two wars... Energy crisis... Starvation...
Genocide... Racism... Sexism... Lying... Corruption...
Pollution... Election crime... White collar crime...
Murder... Dogs and Cats sleeping together...

and this is what holds our media spellbound.

It's really over isn't it?

I'm going to go do something else for awhile.

Would someone please page me if there's any sign
of sanity or progress?

[Beware the Beast Man]

8. I think it's funny.

A whole lacrosse team didn't even bother to go formal to meet the Chimp. And besides, it's not as if this was a breaking story- it's Matcom news, for Pete's sake!

[Hugin]

9. Didn't say it wasn't funny.

;)

Doesn't matter... We all only have 6 months to live.

http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/features/politics/61696

Guess there's no need to fix my roof. No need for retirement
planning either.

[matcom]

10. HEY!

are you somehow suggesting that MatcomNews isn't IMPORTANT? you think MatcomNews is TRIVIAL? :cry:

:D

[Beware the Beast Man]

11. I have it on good authority,

that you are a secert Rove operative who rolls out the "fluff" news when things are bad in the White House. :tinfoilhat: What are your credentials, Mr. Com, if that is indeed your real name?*


*We have reason to believe you may be Johnny Gosch.

[Hugin]

12. I didn't get the memo.

I KNEW IT!

[Midlodemocrat]

14. I feel I must intervene

and disagree BtBM. matcom news is the preeminent news in the DU Lounge. Accept no substitutes.

[matcom]

15. thank you.

now BAN HIM! :D

[Hugin]

17. Don't forget emad at the International Desk.

Without Matcom we would be ignorant of the crisis at the
"Glory Hole".

[Hugin]

13. If they were different "thongs"... Could'a had a scandal.

I think we should spend $70 Million and 6 years just
to be sure.

[MissMillie]

21. Well... it's a good thing that the press knows where to place its energy

:sarcasm: