Nov

4

Obama Wins the Presidency in Style (and in Ray Bans!)

Filed Under Blogroll, Celebrity Watch, Designer Sunglasses 


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With Obama’s victory on November 4th he is set to become America’s first black president beginning in January of 2009. Obama has roused a global movement of emotional support and promises of cooperation and foreword momentum from international leaders. His victory was celebrated across the world, as people took to the streets dancing and crying. Not only is he America’s first black president, but he may well be the most charismatic. His image as a normal citizen is emphasized by his calm, relaxed nature, but also by his casual and comfortable attire. From his worn shoes to his real-world Ray Ban sunglasses, Obama is not only fashionable, but definitively human in appeal. Over Halloween, Obama was photographed walking his seven year old daughter around town trick or treating in casual attire and his stylish black-tinted Ray Ban shades. This family man, though nights away from the most important turning point in his life (and in recent American history) was living the life of a suburban father, and living it in classy style.


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Obama bears a burden unknown in modern times. With the hopes of the world on his shoulders, he is expected to bring the change he has so emotionally promised for the past two years. No small task in a global recession, with the US embroiled in two wars abroad and a divided country at home. In appealing to the population to work together, he has lifted some of the enormous weight off of his young shoulders, yet the pressure must be intense. He does not want to let down the black community, nor can he afford to disappoint a roused and patriotic nation eager to mend years of a sour reputation abroad and a failing internal image of the government.


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Despite the enormity of the task that lies ahead, Obama remains cool and calm. In his pre-election campaigning Obama took time out to talk with Ebony magazine, an African American journal that hailed him as one of the greatest black leaders of our time. He appeared as cool as always in his trademark Ray Ban’s nondescript black suit and tie. Indeed, the man appears as if he were a secret service agent, rather than the President-elect. An image the down-to-earth democrat is more than happy to characterize. Though endorsed by high-profile celebrities and musicians (P.Diddy, Brad Pitt and others) he retains a style of his own, and does not lean on those around him to build up his reputation. Despite such massive endorsements, Obama has simply thanked his supporters and encouraged them to vote, take responsibility for change, and for creating a political ideology that is centred on community involvement rather than the all-to-well known spectator sport that was the former administrations ‘leave-it-to-us’ philosophy.

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