Op-Ed: Obama’s Cool Confidence Reflected in Relaxed Dress Code

One of the vastly improved changes at the White House is the dress code, moving from Bush’s stiff, formal suits jackets only policy to Obama’s business casual of jacketless rolled up sleeves.

Rolled up sleeves, as the saying goes, means getting down to business. Seriously getting down to serious business. Frankly, my dears, I don’t give a damn if President Barack Obama shows up to work wearing nothing but tidy-whities, flip-flops and his well-organized brain. Truth be known, Bush’s dress code policy was a slap in the face of his predecessor, former President Bill Clinton, for his Oval Office under-the-desk peccadillo. For all of Bush’s arrogant claims that he instituted the formal dress code to bring respect back to the office, the only thing he accomplished was heaping far more shame on it than Bill Clinton ever did. It's not what a man wears, it's what he does and how he goes about doing it. Bush’s pretentiousness edict of jackets and formal business wear accomplished nothing. Nothing except to kill off more than 4,000 American soldiers in Iraq and as many as a million Iraqi citizens in an illegal war; shred our Constitution beyond recognition; destroy the Department of Justice by politicizing it; illegally torture people; illegally spy on all American citizens; and utterly massacre our reputation around the world. Shirt sleeves are in as is competence, intelligence, a willingness to listen, offers of bi-partisan cooperation, and my-way-isn’t-the-highway to getting things done to turn the country around. He can keep the drapes, but if Obama would only get rid of that butt-ugly yellow sunburst carpet that Laura picked out, the Oval Office would be perfect.