If you grew up as I did, watching American cowboy movies at the cinema - in black and white, then you knew, without any fear of contradiction, that the genre identified the good guys from the baddies simply by their choice of head wear.The good guys always wore white hats and the bad guys always wore black hats.
If you have a chance, review the footage you have been seeing on your TV sets over the last few years, set in some of the countries within which there are now terrorist groups or alleged terrorist organisations that have come under fire from during the American led "war on terror."
It's in the light of this interesting take on American history that I read the most recent news item concerning Barack Obama. There he is pictured while on a trip to Kenya the country where his father was born, wearing a white turban.
This appears to be considered by all and sundry as a low down dirty trick and is considered offensive by many in the Obama camp.
Don't know about anyone else - if it were me, I would relish the fact that my attempted detractors had managed to get the message so wrong! After all Obama is wearing a WHITE hat!
Now if someone comes and publishes a picture with Hillary Clinton wearing a black hat or a black turban, I will simply roll over in great guffaws of laughter at the level of politicking that is now happening in the USA.There is already some evidence that this is likely to happen - perhaps in Texas. After all, check out this offering from You Decide 2008
Then of course I could be wrong and all the 'rules' that the USA seems to have set in the past may be being overturned in the environment of the present;
For example:
Black Hat and White hat
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