is it my imagination or are bush and cheney only wearing

[sui generis]

blue shirts these days? I can't find any recent pics with them wearing white collars. . . any nickel psychologists out there who have an opinion?

[AuntPatsy]

1. I said the same thing to a friend today, I was wondering if

blue was their favorite color, is so, mine has now changed....

[Stephanie]

2. It's TV friendly

Blue is good for camera. I'm sure there's some subliminal psychological strategy behind it too.

[Jane Austin]

19. Blue inspires trust

according to the research done back in the eighties.

[Stephanie]

21. There you go

And orange makes you hungry? Seem to recall that's why all the fast food places used orange.

[gospelized]

3. because

blue is the official color of bringing peace and democracy to the world!

[frankly_fedup2]

8. Well the shirts look like faded denim to me and they have the sleeves . .

rolled up. I took it as an attempt to reach the "normal" folk that really give them their majority of the vote. If they were in suits all the time they would appear to be above your average farmer, factory worker, etc. They would come across as big business supervisors, bosses, you know, what they really are, etc. So by wearing the denim, they are trying to come across as just another man in America trying to earn a living, taking care of their families, and are just like you and me.

2 cents.

[AuntPatsy]

14. Well if true, shouldn't all the states be cloaked in Blue? ;-)

[4morewars]

4. "look at our blue collars....

just like the sweaty workers!"

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. It is a uniform thing

chdck it out, most of the GOP DO WEAR a uniform of sort

[calico1]

7. Shouldn't they be they brown shirts? n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. They are passe and these blue shirts

are BOT ACTUAL mikitary uniforms.

[bain_sidhe]

15. I guess blue is the new brown?? n/t

[whistle]

6. Attempting to put forth an image that they are just regular...

...Joe Lunchbox types even though in reality their base is the 313 billionaries listed in the Forbes 400 Richest Americans. Shucks, can't ya tell?

[librechik]

9. Karen Hughes again

I sense her stench on this costumed facade...

[Warpy]

11. Television

Back in the old days of black and white TV, any white guy who wore a white shirt ended up looking like he'd changed his race. Blue shirts were about the same color saturation as white skin, and so both ended up looking white on TV.

The tradition has simply lived on. White shirts are seen as stark and unfriendly, and striped shirting ends up making the TV buzz as moire patterns are generated by analog TV. Hence, the blue shirt.

[dogtag]

12. Men overwhelmingly pick blue as their favorite color. (n/t)

[Barney Rocks]

13. I really like the

french blue (a very dark blue) shirt that Kerry often wears with a navy blue jacket. I think all the candidates wear a lot of blue, it is a nice color.

[Freddie Stubbs]

16. He wore a white shirt to the UN earlier this week

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040924/photos_pl_afp/040924190903_kg8kpr5t_photo0

[Freddie Stubbs]

17. He also wore a white shirt when he held the presser with Allawi

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040924/photos_wl_afp/040924155226_0oi0ubi0_photo3

[Jane Austin]

18. He's also started wearing tee shirts under them.

I guess even he thought the sweaty pits were too much.

[Stephanie]

20. He's wearing body armor under them

Look at how smooth and stiff the shirt looks - he wears a bullet proof vest. I guess the Loyalty Oath is not enough to reassure him.