August 23, 2005

Political Fashion Monkey: "In South and Latin America each nation has its own 'Presidential sash', usually featuring the country's national colors and symbols. The Presidential sash is a symbol of the continuity of government, and when the old president resigns, the same sash is passed on to the new President." ... I wish our president wore a sash.
posted by Possum 19 years ago
  • But someone would have to show him how it worked...
  • By the way, clicking on the "Pictorial Essays" tab at the top and then using the subsequent menu on the right will take you to a wealth of other "leaders in uniform" photos -- some of them impressive, some of them hysterical.
  • "Miss Underestimate"??
  • Possum, pretty much every single person in that collection was president of a graft-ridden, double dealing, vote stealing banana republic type nation. You're right, the Bush administration deserves a shash.
  • Love the pic of Brazil's Lula, Fonzie meets LC Leprechaun: "They're always after me Lucky Charms."
  • I seem to recall seeing in a magazine many years ago a photo of a painting of Ronald Reagan wearing a sash. The painting belonged to Imelda Marcos. In fact, I think she was posing beside this Reagan-sash portrait. This was in Time or Newsweek or something like that. If anyone can find it on the Web, post a link.
  • I'd pay to get him a sash reading: "Will Work For Food"..
  • No-one else read that as "Presidential slash", then? Just me. Okay. Er. (Other noted sash-wearers: King Juan Carlos, Magneto)
  • You obviously missed the portion of the Monica Lewinsky hearings about the blue sash. No wonder we don't have one any more. ... ... I'm a bad man
  • I was thinking Presidential 'stache...Not since Howard Taft has there been an adequate presidential 'stache...
  • "... I wish our president wore a sash." That's a funny coincidence, because only today I was wishing that your president was dead.
  • "... I wish our president wore a sash." That's a funny coincidence, because only today I was wishing that your president was dead. HA! *looks warily at the two black helicopters that just appeared on the horizon*
  • No-one else read that as "Presidential slash", then? *Looks up from torrid Nixon-Agnew scene, then resumes writing*
  • Mmm... Presidential slash.
  • What? President Slash? As in Nash the Slash? Sure, why not?
  • *Looks up from torrid Nixon-Agnew scene Well, that's my day ruined.
  • Oh mother, I must become president so I can wear a striped sash with the top looped over one shoulder and the other end dangling over my ass.
  • ... I wish our president wore a sash. if he did, he could sing the anthem of northern irish unionism/orangeism: the sash my father wore
  • RRAAAHHHH!! PRESIDENTIAL SMASH!!!!!!!