In fact, let's just pretend that it was this girl, except a little sweatier. Combined with the fact that a Google search for "Obama graphic tee" produces tons of images portraying actual t-shirts worn by actual people supporting our president, while searches for "Bush graphic tee" and "Clinton graphic tee" produce only Obama t-shirt images, the conclusion seems obvious.
Our president is a pop culture icon. Like the Beatles. And that makes me a little sad.
Barack Obama is of a different generation than Bill Clinton or George W. Bush - he's fifteen years younger than both of them. Whereas Clinton & Bush were born on the leading edge of the Baby Boom, Obama was born during the transition from the Baby Boom to Generation X. He's a very different person, and likewise will be looked at very differently. It's not ideal for the President to be reduced to a pop culture icon, but I think it's a reality that we're going to have to deal with more often than not from now on, no matter who the President is.
ReplyDeleteI suppose we'll see... who knows what will come next?
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