haloed presence
Saturday, October 29, a few days before the midterm elections, decisive for the continuation of the Biden presidency, Barack Obama was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to support the local Democratic candidate for the Senate, the so-called Mandela Barnes, during a campaign rally. For long minutes, the former president thus tried to mobilize voters, welcoming Joe Biden’s record while castigating the posture of the Republicans, in close ranks behind Donald Trump. What is called “wetting the jersey”. Literally.
Winning Round
Not shrinking from any effort, Barack Obama had, for the occasion, rolled up the sleeves of his shirt, thus perpetuating a fourteen-year-old tradition. It was indeed one evening in September 2008, during a meeting in Terre Haute (Indiana), that the Democrat, presidential candidate, then on an unfavorable runoff in the polls against Republican John McCain, had been seen for the first time jacket dropped and sleeves rolled up. In the process, he had started the rise in the polls which led him to the final victory. Coincidence? Mandela Barnes probably hopes not.
blue in politics
Placed to the left of Barack Obama, the candidate of the day, 35, had chosen to keep his jacket, taking care not to reveal a single drop of sweat. The choice of security? On the contrary. This jacket gives us the opportunity to recall, once again, all the hatred we have for this azure blue roughly wedged somewhere between navy and purple, and which has become in the space of a few years one of the pillars of the modern male clothing.
Let’s put it more clearly: might as well drop the jacket and show off your sweat, if it’s to wear such a thing.
Banking polar
To the right of the former president, Tony Evers, the outgoing governor of Wisconsin, had opted for another strategy. Less covered than Mandela Barnes but more than Barack Obama, he wore that day a fleece vest identical to the famous fleece jacket sported by Wall Street employees. In fact, this vest, adorned with the logo of banks, has become so emblematic of the New York Stock Exchange that the Patagonia brand announced, in 2021, that it would no longer make wholesale tariffs to banks in order to protest against excesses. finance. We bet that Tony Evers had missed the info. And the symbol.
Yellow jersey
Finally, to the right of Tony Evers, this woman is wearing a fluorescent yellow T-shirt with a clear message: “Vote, it’s a power thing” (“ vote is a sign of power “). The opportunity to remember that the very first political t-shirts in history were created in 1948
by the Governor of the State of New York, Thomas E. Dewey, on the occasion of the presidential election. Slogan crossed out “Dew-it-with-Dewey”, these T-shirts did not, however, allow Dewey to avoid defeat against Harry Truman. Too bad: he might have
enough to roll up the sleeves of his shirt to be elected.
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