Friday June 13, 2008
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., goes for a bike ride in Chicago, Sunday, June 8, 2008.
AP Photo/Alex Brandon
Barack Obama says he "was not trying to pander to this crowd" when he wore ill-fitting jeans, a tucked in golf shirt and big tennis shoes for a bike ride last weekend.
"I got a hard time from all sorts of blogs who said I looked like Urkel," he told supporters at a fundraiser in his Chicago Thursday.
Us Weekly fashion police had slammed his outfit on Tuesday.
"He should consider hiring Lance Armstrong as his stylist," Steve Kemble of Extreme Makeover: Wedding Edition told Usmagazine.com.
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The senator admitted he had an "internal debate" before putting on his bike helmet.
"I knew that the A.P. was going to take a picture, and they were trying to portray it like [Mike Dukakis] wearing that tank helmet," he explained.
"But I wanted to make sure that the children who saw that picture knew that even the Democratic nominee for president wears a helmet when he goes biking,"
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