CBS ‘Evening News’: Obama’s Gray Hair ‘Equals Gravitas’

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Obama Gray Hair, CBS At the end of Thursday’s CBS Evening News correspondent Chip Reid reported important breaking news about President Obama's graying hair: "...the rate at which President Obama is adding salt to his pepper is what’s surprising, even if his inner circle says ‘no big deal.’" Axelrod observed: "The gray seemed to be on him from the moment he took the oath. There was talk during the campaign that maybe he was dying his hair gray to look more seasoned, but his barber says bunk." He later concluded the report by declaring: "If there's any consolation for Mr. Obama, it's that gray equals gravitas, and a president can never have too much of that."

Perhaps a good example of the President’s "gravitas" would be the gift he gave to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown during a diplomatic visit this week: a 25-DVD box set, including such films as E.T., The Wizard of Oz, and Star Wars. So far, neither CBS nor any of the networks or cable channels have covered this Obama gaffe.  

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Here is the full transcript of the segment:

6:56PM SEGMENT:

KATIE COURIC: The President is also getting something new. He doesn't really want it, but he appears to be accepting it. And both the New York Times and the Washington Post took note of it today. Our national correspondent Jim Axelrod reports it seems to come with the job.

JIM AXELROD: Even on the campaign trail-

BARACK OBAMA: At this defining moment in history-

AXELROD: -he knew it was inevitable.

OBAMA: People have noticed I've been getting gray hair.

AXELROD: But the rate at which President Obama is adding salt to his pepper is what's surprising, even if his inner circle says 'no big deal.'

ZARIFF [OBAMA'S BARBER]: Because he's more focused on the country, not the few gray hairs he has.

OBAMA: I, Barack Hussein Obama-

AXELROD: The gray seemed to be on him from the moment he took the oath. There was talk during the campaign that maybe he was dying his hair gray to look more seasoned, but his barber says bunk.

ZARIFF: Not at all. It's 100% natural. I can vouch for that.

AXELROD: After all, this isn't Hollywood, where movie stars like George Clooney can change their hair color from role to role. Science has long suggested stress could intensify the natural effects of aging, even for people who don't run the world. It's especially striking on those who do.

DAVID REUBEN [DOCTOR, UCLA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE]: You have these two forces -- one, this tremendous stress that's associated with the presidency. And the second being that this is the time of your life when you do start to show signs of aging.

AXELROD: Look what the strains of office did to George W. Bush.

GEORGE W. BUSH: Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, tonight the state of our union is strong, the state our union will remain strong.

AXELROD: Though he blamed his gray hair on raising two teenage daughters. Then there's Ronald Reagan, early in his presidency and toward the end. Actually, that's the beginning and that's the end, proving only that every rule has an exception. And for the record, his last chief of staff says it was all the wood chopping and horseback riding that kept his hair dark, and that's it. Did he get any help from the bottle?

KEN DUBERSTEIN: To the very, very best of my knowledge, hell, no.

AXELROD: If there's any consolation for Mr. Obama, it's that gray equals gravitas, and a president can never have too much of that. Jim Axelrod, CBS News, Washington.

—Kyle Drennen is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.


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Usually, the media talks

Usually, the media talks about a president's gray hair at the very end of his presidency. Is this the end of Obama?? I don't know if Biden would be any better though.

Actually, they must have run out of ways to spin the news, so they're talking about something fairly unimportant.

→ Weep in adoration!

Oh, how fortunate are we, that Barack Hussein Obama was sent to us for such a time as this?

Fall before him and weep in adoration for him, whose hair grayed upon coming down from the mountain with his word from Karl Marx.

Does it not shame us to gaze upon his glorious countenance? 

Obama - Change you can bereave in

We need to take a page from the liberal handbook

They like to talk about "Jesus-freaks," so we can label the MSM "Obama-freaks."

I wonder when they will break out the tamborines, speaking in tongues, handling snakes, and singing hymns. 

→ Handling snakes?

I heard Larry Sinclair was an early convert. 

Obama - Change you can bereave in

Yo, moron's of the MSM ...

Yo, moron's of the MSM ... he dyed his hair before!

Check out the OBAMA FOREHEAD

Check out the 48 year old OBAMA FOREHEAD below the graying hair... 8 ball

BOTOX ALERT... BOTOX ALERT...

Obama Amends The Constitution
Check out the poster @ Hollycrud checker-outers

Speaking of changing features

There seems to be a Pinocchio thing going on with the ears too.

blech

only if Gravitas is a hair color for men. And  after seeing today's articles this definitely gets today's Obama Barf Bag Award for most sycophantic praise by a reporter.  Good job Chip.

He Needs Gravitas

For those of you with Rush 24-7 access, look at the Parody archive - there's a great theme song for this named "He Needs Gravitas."  Apparently, George W. Bush needed Dick Cheney to gain an aura of gravitas...but Obama just needs a few flecks of greying.

 Insert joke about Joe Biden =/= gravitas here...

more hypnotic crap from the media

They are not going on about his gray crown because they are running out of spin, or it's end of days. It's his "crown" in the continuing assault on the American mind.

Gray hair indicates someone is wise. Father like figure. The gray is above his big "dumbo" style ears around the temples. This brings images of a crown. To many, the crown of thorns Jesus is portrayed with.

The media is talking about his graying as a marketing attempt to place Obama with Jesus. To cast him as a wise father figure who knows what is best for us children.

get it now?

 

 

Alexander Hamilton: "We are a Republican government. Real liberty is
never found in the despotism or in the extremes of a Democracy."

Gravitas???

Hell, if gray hair = gravitas, Bush and McCain both have more gravitas than The Fraudulent One.  

 

 

Couric, ever frivolous, picks right up on such things...

Couric, ever frivolous, picks right up on such things, but then, that's what Katie does best when she's not skewering people of substance.

I think today ...

I think today I'm going to be a little crude with my remarks about "the one". Obama is a freakin' idiot. I have never seen anyone who was so completely ignorant of what is happening around him. The man (and I use the term very loosely) isn't interested in doing what is right for the country. Everything he does is wrong for the country.

Obama doesn't understand the "Prime Directive" of the U.S. Constitution, which is to protect the citizens. The Constitution says the "We the People" have the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Obama is making sure that the American people aren't happy, that their lives are going to be placed in peril, and that our liberties will be eroded away.

Obama has lied to us, he has given us fear, and he is trying to make all of us dependent on the government for everything with his policies. He has even insulted our allies, i.e. Great Britain for example. He doesn't believe and/or won't admit he is wrong. Obama doesn't believe the oath he took as president. Obama simply IS NOT an honorable man. IMO.

Remember folks, Freedom isn't Free. It was bought with the blood and sacrifice of the men and women who are serving and who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces.

For those who fought for it, Freedom has a flavor that the protected will never know.

Also remember folks, that the way to SUPPORT THE TROOPS is to support their mission. Anyone who says that they support the troops but don't support their mission is lying about supporting the troops. And if you want to know, yes I do have a dog in the fight, he is a United States Marine.

 

Sentry Dan

Thank you for your son's service. Your analysis is right on target!

Thanks, North ...

Thanks, North. I was up at Camp Lejeune last week waiting to send my son over on his second tour. We were waiting for my son to be released for the day, Friday.

While we were waiting we watched "the one" give his speech in front of the 4000 or so Marines and I'm thinking "Why is this man here?". The Marines were polite, but I know in my ex-military mind that the majority were thinking the same thing I was.

He stood there and insulted the intelligence of these Marines who he was asking to continue the fight for the Afghans and Iraqis freedoms by telling them that he will give them a pay increase and increased medical care. He has also said that he would reduce the Defense budget, which means that equipment they need to fight won't get purchased.

Obama has no honor. He is violating his oath of office. "We the People" can't elect this man again. We must do everything in our power to get rid of the politicians that would destroy our Country. I wish I could have reached through the TV set cause I would have rung his neck.

 Remember folks, Freedom isn't Free. It was bought with the blood and sacrifice of the men and women who are serving and who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces.

For those who fought for it, Freedom has a flavor that the protected will never know.

Also remember folks, that the way to SUPPORT THE TROOPS is to support their mission. Anyone who says that they support the troops but don't support their mission is lying about supporting the troops. And if you want to know, yes I do have a dog in the fight, he is a United States Marine.

 

Wonder why Obama is getting

Wonder why Obama is getting gray hair? This is Obama driving his economic policies. Who wouldn't get gray hair doing this? ;+}

http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_nov2008/CliffWalker.jpg

The Government cannot give to anybody anything which the government does not first take from somebody else. Dr. Adrian Rogers

Who Knew Gravitas = Dow Tanking

The empty suit known as Zero needs special effects and a teleprompter to have gravitas.

Yeah, The Bama is full of it.

No Gravitas that I can see

Stress will cause pre mature greying. This guy has found out that he has bitten off more than he can chew, and thats a mild analogy. A far cry from gravitas, more stupidity....

Roger that

He has the cool exterior of a rock star and is in the fetal position on the inside cause he knows he is in over his head and hopes one of the ideas his court is pushing is going to make a difference. The more they do the worse they make it and him look. That alone would give a person gray hair. The whole premise of gray hair meaning gravitas is completely asinine.

Going to make Carter look like

Before this is over Nerobama is going to make Carter look like he went through the fountain of youth during his 4 years

Jef.. thought you were

Jef.. thought you were going to say Obama makes Carter look like Winston Churchill  ;+}. Which, I guess, he does.

The Government cannot give to anybody anything which the government does not first take from somebody else. Dr. Adrian Rogers

Reagan just got younger looking

And that really pissed off the MSM 

Mr. Axelrod

So following your methodology. plugs Biden would be the anti-gravitas?

No no no...

Biden still has gravitas...he just PAID for his (smirk)

Match

Does the carpet match the drapes?

It's just lint. It's

It's just lint.

It's obviously not from overworking. 

Boy, you would think with

Boy, you would think with the current situation that they would have things of more gravitas to talk about.  The man is what, 47 or so?  And we're talking about him having some white hairs, as if that's something unusual?  Yes, folks, even the One ages like the rest of us mortals.

 

And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall.   -- Edgar Allan Poe

lotr

They are trying to give him the patina of age and it won't work.

More ignorance

So, gray hair equals gravitas. Then I guess old Greedy Grady on Sanford and Sons must have been a member of Mensa. That is without a doubt one of the most asinine things I have ever heard. There are millions of people with gray hair who can't pour piss out of a rubber boot with the directions written on the bottom. Hair pigmentation is about as signifcant as the color of his socks.

color of his socks

Don't give the drive bys any ideas.....

Grecian Formula

This is what happens to anyone who stops using Grecain Formula or any other hair coloring. The color wears off and the grey shows through. OOPS! I wasn't supposed to tell.

No matter which gray matter it is,

neither one has any synapse activity going on

I get a bunch

doubters on this all the time but the gray shows up due to stress. I see the stress mounting on the osama obamaone thru not only the job he holds that is waaay above his paygrade, but radical michelle putting even more force upon him now and then you have the fact that he can't produce legitimate birth records, gosh theres just so much pressure. There is always the possibilty that Rush is a little more than he can handle. Maybe word is getting around up there that most of the country wants him OUT.

or

It may only be that prior to getting in he used shoe black and that since then he doesn't have to  or since they think it means something good for him he colors it gray. Only the osamaone and his hairdresser knows for sure. Maybe the Breck girl.

RD

That's what I was trying to say about why the color changed after the election. Going into the election there is a value to the youthful appearance hence the dark hair and stories on his marvelous pectorals etc. Afterwards he needs the appearance of wisdom gained with aging, hence the greying around the temples. It's all smoke and mirrors from my point of view.

Sickoflibs

You didn't say lint did you? That's just too funny, good one.

RD

I saw that too and wondered if the fresh flannel linens were leaving a trail of lint.

I also couldn't resist wondering if it were nits instead of lint.

Grey friggin hair???

What will the MSM come up with next? They couldn't (or wouldn't) investigate Obama's past associations, they can't be bothered with checking into the factuality of the statements he makes, and they refuse to critcize anything he is doing! But lets take a look at his greying friggin hair! His hair is going grey for one reason; HE IS IN WAY OVER HIS HEAD, AND HE HAS JUST COME TO REALIZE IT. Maybe he needs to have another date night with Michelle to relax himself.  

 

 

President Obama is nothing more than a empty suit; a Hollywood
style special effects smoke and mirrors show that has shown itself to
be a total fraud.  

WAKE UP AMERICA! SAVE OUR CONSTITUTION! 

NEWS FLASH

Chrissy Mathews say 'THE ONE" has grey pubes too....oh the humanity

Gravitas?

Are you sure it isn't a lack of hair coloring he might have been using? "Gravitas"? ..Perhaps it's stressing because he really doesn't know what to do especially without a teleprompter?

 

 Obama lied; the economy died.

                        Tony Blankley

Clintons

I was in junior high at the time, but if memory serves me right, didn't BOTH of the Clintons come out with gray hair right before or right after his second election?  The media went all crazy then too, about how it showed wisdom, him (them) having to make tough decisions, blah, blah, blah.  Does anyone else remember this? 

Only Billy-Jeff's Hairdresser Knows

You can find pictures of Bill with near-black hair, brown hair, blond hair, and gray hair. I'm sure every color was 'focus-grouped' as well.

Grey hair?

After a little over one month?

What a prig!

 

 

It is either lint or

SOBama is trying to look like Richard Wolffe

Staged. Just like the

Staged.

Just like the Greek Collums. Like the blue-draped table setting with his econ team during the election (when 1st bail-out was being discussed).

Just like the Non State of the Union address. The Office of the President-Elect shield.

Notice he always waves to the press/photogs. He is an actor. George Clooney and Brad Pitt commanded personal visits. His gift to PM Brown-25 DVD set.

President Teleprompter. All the World's his stage.

Crash knows more

Crash knows more then all of the MSM.

Obama's hair

Hey, maybe the hair dye washed out.

When is CBS

When is CBS going to give us answers to the important questions concerning Present Obama?

What flavor Kool Ade does he prefer?

What is his favorite bubble gum?

 Can he stand on his hands?

Can he ride a bike?

We need answers to these and many other important questions.

 

Jesus Loves You

Uh-uh-uhbama

I am predicting a Barrack Obama nervous breakdown by January 31, 2010

I won't speculate on whether a teleprompter failure, or continued policy failure sets it off, just that it will happen.

 

 

"Gov. Palin has been subjected to one of the most massive and dishonest pile-on smear attacks in the history of liberal media."  -- Lowell Ponte

Thank God for the NY Times.

Thank God for the NY Times. Wait, Why are newspapers becoming obsolete?? Who will write stories about what we can see with our own eyes, now???
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