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Sartorial Politics

Juan Cole 02/26/2008

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With reference to this story about Barack Obama dressing traditionally on a good will trip abroad:

Here is Bill Clinton doing the same thing:

And here is Hillary Clinton in Palestinian dress with Suha Arafat back in her even-handed, fair days:

and here is George W. Bush in Chinese robes with Hu Jintao and Vladimir Putin (I can’t decide whether this is evidence that Bush is a Manchurian candidate or if it is finally the explanation for his faux macho swagger– surely this is the gayest picture of a president ever taken):

And here is John McCain wearing stole of Bush, the only costume mentioned here that should be embarrassing (and I take back what I said about the last picture):

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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