The jug-eared little prick makes an official state visit without a tie.

[11 Bravo]

http://www.whitehouse.gov

Every time I think he can't embarrass the United States any worse, he finds a way.

On edit: They changed the picture, but he was debarking Air Force One to meet the Prime Minister of Poland wearing a sports coat and an open-collared shirt.

[JackintheGreen]

1. I met the ambassador from Bangladesh in only a button-down

and untucked even!

...but then I'm only a graduate student.

[napi21]

2. The other pic is still there. "Click on "more pictures" and it's one

of several pic options shown on the left side.

[MUAD_DIB]

3. but...But...But...

he's the Prezdent of the M'rkin people. He's jus all folksy.

Awwww Shucks...

[DavidDvorkin]

4. Oh, come on

I hate George Bush with a passion, but I'll readily give him a pass on this one.

Ties are an abomination, and I'd love to see more public figures not wearing them. Perhaps it would start a trend.

Hell, if I were president, I'd show up everywhere wearing blue jeans, sneakers, and a t-shirt.

[TahitiNut]

5. I must reluctantly agree. Ties ARE an abomination.

I wore 3-piece suits, wing-tips, and ties for 15-20 years playing the corporate fashion game. It was disgusting. I actually preferred my boots and jungle fatigues in Viet Nam. If I had a magic wand, I'd have everyone wear something like hospital scrubs ... in as many different colors and prints as desired ... and Birkenstocks. For many years now I've adopted a cotton-only rule ... wearing cotton pique polo shirts with an overshirt and elastic waist cotton trousers or shorts and Birkenstocks ... wherever I go. If the "dress code" requires something else, I don't go.

[PA Democrat]

14. Except that Bush was very critical of the relaxed dress code allowed by the Clinton

White House.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2001/06/27/rformal.php

One of the first presidential acts of George W. Bush was to decree that he would be running a more formal White House. It turns out that he may be governing a more formal country.
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In January, only a few days after his inauguration, Bush announced that he would require that his staff be more formally attired. Specifically, jeans were banished from the Oval Office. It was a curious mandate coming from a new commander in chief who, on the campaign trail, was known for his dungarees, cowboy boots and down-home, plain-talking rhetoric. But as the new president, he announced his belief in the power of the business suit.
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His announcement also drew a clear line of distinction between his administration and that of former President Bill Clinton. The previous administration had not been sloppy; no one was showing up for state dinners or Oval Office meetings dressed in sweats or ripped dungarees. But around Washington it was known that President Clinton ran a White House of late-night cramming sessions, youthful informality and accepted business casual.
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When Bush announced his new dress code, he indicated that part of his reasoning was that with sartorial formality would also come a greater sense of dignity and sobriety connected to the office of the presidency. In keeping with this sort of fashion sobriety, Washington insiders report that parties are much more sobering affairs. Because Bush does not drink, that inhibits others from drinking — although the First Lady will have a margarita — and so not only are the clothes more solemn but the atmosphere is much more straitlaced.
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[DavidDvorkin]

18. The original post did not attack him for his hypocrisy

But for the informality itself, saying that it embarrasses the U.S.

[Bitwit1234]

6. Did someone tell Laura it was a formal affair she and bush should get together.

[Hubert Flottz]

7. Sir Jethro

Is a reflection of America's best!

EDIT...A kind of clabbered America's best!

[freesqueeze]

8. I remember the candid words (curse words)

he was caught using last year. I was much more apalled that he was (at that time) talking with his mouth full. Something that would get a slap up side the head from my red-neck momma.

This president is Randy Quaid in the NL Vacation movies.

[PA Democrat]

9. Here's the photo:

[Hubert Flottz]

13. What in the Hell is

Leisure Suit Laura wearing today? The only fashion the Bushies know anything at all about, is Dog fashion!

[Bitwit1234]

10. Go to the pics and see if he has a scrape on his face

In the picture where he is talking to the gentleman with the turban it looks like he has a scrape along the top of the cheek and under the eye on the left side of his face. It does not look like a defect it looks real.

[partylessinOhio]

15. This one from this morning?

* looks pasty after his day of drinking beer in the sun and awakening with hangover flu.

[partylessinOhio]

16. In this one he looks worse, did Pickles sock him a good one?

[Kurovski]

17. "Boozer's Flu" is the proper medical term, I believe.

[Kurovski]

11. At least he didn't show up in his footie pajamas.

The ones with cowboys on it.

[onenote]

12. looks like the Polish President (not PM) wasn't wearing a tie either.

My guess is that the folks on the ground got word to Air Force One before it landed that Polish President Lech Kaczynski was dressed casually and chimpy was advised to dress accordingly. That's what my friend who worked for State during the Clinton years tells me is probably what happened.