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Change You Can Only Imagine
New York Times ^ | January 16, 2009 | Kathryn Shattuck

Posted on 01/22/2009 9:04:41 PM PST by Lorianne

IMAGINE a White House where the Oval Office faces an interactive media wall filled with live commentary from citizens and visitors. Or a White House that is raised and lowered according to poll results, with an unpopular president brought down to the level of disgruntled constituents. How about one that changes colors according to the Homeland Security Advisory System? Or that has been emptied of human content and made into a central server for United States democracy?

However intent he is on change, even Barack Obama might draw the line at trading the Lincoln Bedroom for a situation room at the bottom of an abyss or a glass monument in the shape of a W — a couple of the other proposals generated by White House Redux, a recent call for ideas centered on a simple question: What if the White House, the ultimate architectural symbol of political power, were to be designed today?

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History
KEYWORDS: architecture; noclass

1 posted on 01/22/2009 9:04:43 PM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Change we have to imagine


2 posted on 01/22/2009 9:12:54 PM PST by GeronL (DAY 3, YEAR 0 - Obama and the Groupie Corps "I can't hang with ya, if yo dogs keep axin ma' stuff')
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To: Lorianne

The Change Hussein has planned is one from freedom to shackles.

This guy seized power on the backs of people who were descendants of slaves and their political friends...and he is going to work to create an entire population of NEW slaves—including those who supported him.

Except we’ll be slaves to bureaucrats driving Hybrid SUVs. Those bureaucrats are the new plantation owners.


3 posted on 01/23/2009 2:08:38 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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