Today, the White House published a telling photo of the President unveiling his true power in a move that may change human-kind’s understanding of what it means to wear a tie.

Note: The thin, white halo around the President’s head appears in the original photo provided by the White House.

Executive branch officials may claim that this effect is a simple coincidence of lighting, but some fringe analysts suspect that the photo warrants a new interpretation of the President’s use of neckties. They insist that the President’s neck wear choices say less about what he intends to project outward to an audience than they say about a secret, formidable, faith-based power he is hiding within.

While Neckofstate’s official position has long been that neck wear is used to supplement a message, the photograph above reveals that the President may be rethinking the scope of influence that neckties, or the lack thereof, could have on the political landscape.

President Obama has certainly seen the heat turn up as the health care debate takes the national stage, and the pressure is getting to him. At a series of public appearances across the country in August, President Obama has been repeatedly photographed without a neck tie, and at least once in rolled-back shirt sleeves.

Analysts say this move reflects his effort to connect with the everyday American during a national heat-wave, but some critics say this shows that the President is still too inexperienced to deal with the realities of a dog-day afternoon in a crippled economy.

Whether the wardrobe change will sway the public is not clear. In New Hampshire and Arizona, hard line fashionistas came to Obama’s town hall meetings wearing guns, probably in protest to Obama’s tielessness. But the town-hall meetings continued on unhampered by the small militia forming outside, and the white house seems unmoved by the fashionista contingency harassing their tour on the ground.