{"id":55084,"date":"2024-08-28T13:26:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T20:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55084"},"modified":"2024-08-28T13:26:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T20:26:34","slug":"10-year-anniversary-of-the-biggest-scandal-to-rock-the-obama-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/08\/28\/10-year-anniversary-of-the-biggest-scandal-to-rock-the-obama-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"10-Year Anniversary of the Biggest Scandal to Rock the Obama Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On August 28, 2014, Pres. Obama held a live press conference\u00a0about the situation regarding ISIS in Syria\u00a0in which he discussed the prospect of escalating the U.S. military response.<\/p>\n

But that was\u00a0NOT<\/u>\u00a0what the media decided was the biggest issue.\u00a0 It was the fact that our nation\u2019s first Black President wore a tan suit.<\/p>\n

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And the headlines had a field day with his sartorial selection:<\/p>\n

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Personally, I thought he looked quite debonair \u2014\u00a0like someone who could have easily come straight from a GQ<\/em> magazine shoot.<\/p>\n

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And it\u2019s been the consensus that VP Kamala Harris gave a playful nod to Obama\u2019s \u201cscandal\u201d when she wore her own\u00a0Chlo\u00e9 tan suit at the DNC.<\/p>\n

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Either way, it underlines the concern of how the media can steer a conversation into the trivial.<\/p>\n

So, we\u2019re going to need keep our \u201cEyes on the Prize!\u201d<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got work to do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  On August 28, 2014, Pres. Obama held a live press conference\u00a0about the situation regarding ISIS in Syria\u00a0in which he discussed the prospect of escalating the U.S. military response. But that was\u00a0NOT\u00a0what the media decided was the biggest issue.\u00a0 It was the fact that our nation\u2019s first Black President wore a tan suit.   And […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4305,5937,5940,5939,5938],"class_list":["post-55084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-anniversary","tag-pres-obama","tag-scandal","tag-tan-suit","tag-vp-kamala-harris","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}