Posted on 08/31/2010 8:21:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
While British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne frets over spending £148 on a fish and chips lunch with the Governor of the Bank of England, Barack Obama has no qualms about requesting an expensive revamp of the Oval Office when the US federal deficit is approaching a staggering $1.3 trillion and unemployment hovers at just under ten percent.
The Wall Street Journal has outlined some of the chic decorative changes at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue:
Handmade striped wallpaper manufactured in Amagansett, N.Y., with trim painted in American-made Benjamin Moore. Obama’s decorating team reupholstered in caramel-colored leather the two mahogany arm-chairs that Bush had placed in front of the fireplace. Obama still uses the famous Resolute Desk favored by some of his predecessors, but got a new leather desk chair and a new (American) walnut coffee table. Both were made in New York State, as were two blue ceramic table lamps.
The new couches were custom-made in New York, but the fabric – light brown cotton with red, white and blue threads running through it – came from Pennsylvania. Maybe it’s coincidence, but New York has 31 electoral votes. Pennsylvania has 21.
I’ve written previously that the Obama administration increasingly resembles a modern-day Ancien Régime with an extravagance and arrogance on display among the White House elites that rule America as though they had been handed some divine right to govern with impunity.
The government insists that the renovations will be paid for by the White House Historical Association, with funds from the Presidential Inaugural Committee, rather than taxpayers’ money, though no actual cost amounts are given.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
The oval office looks gay now.
Tedious Boortz made fun of birthers. He is an Obama/Saudi shill.
Did he hang any velvet paintings of himself? Oh, and beads...have to hang beads.
As usual, foreign press calls it!
and they added “aromatherapy”....
It backfired, though....it smells of FEAR.
The wallpaper looks good.
The rug is reminiscent of the one during Clinton’s term.
The couches look like something bought during a clearance sale at Rooms to Go.
The coffee table is an abomination. Completely mismatched and out of place.
To be fair, Båmbî probably didn’t have a stitch of input into the décor.
People re-decorate to make THEMSELVES feel better. Nothing is going to help the Americans feel better except the NEXT makeover. :)
Boortz is an anti-birther and an egotistical bore.
Obama hates the White House and dreads staying there.
The ghosts won’t let him sleep.
Just for grins and giggles I did a google on the new digs for 0bama... in a word, the decor is bland. I just wonder what took him so long to get his own color scheme in place, using the Bush decor for nearly 2 years. I think his office colors allow him to just blend in and be hidden.
Jackie's TV tour of the WH cemented Jackie's elegant image among Americans.
JACKIE'S WH BEDROOM.
The rug that Clinton had was a deep blue with the seal in the center. And Clinton had the bold striped colors on the couches. Bush had a more formal and elegant office, completely unfit for the likes of 0bama...bland fits this guy.
I second that opinion.
These actions, along with the extravagance and vacations, are those of a prez who knows he is a one termer. Seriously, it’s probably now about 60/40 that he even wants to run. Does he not look flummoxed, as a deer in headlights, over his head and under prepared, and petulent, bored? I think he is done.
What’s that, the Five MuskeQueers?
The ghosts won’t let him sleep." That's not as strange an idea as it may first appear to some. I agree with you...
Great post. Thanks.
To be more precise, the decoration was done by committee. (as were Bush’s, Clinton’s, etc.)
Heading this committee were Michelle, Valerie Jarrett, and Reggi Love .
Barry has been out playing golf while all this was being done.
After that I was done...(Do a deer, a female deer...)
“The wallpaper looks good.”
I’m not a decorator but another Freeper said gawd what are they doing with striped wallpaper in the WH?
SO what is appropriate?
I second that opinion.
I don't know about that....
Compare Presidents
You know you finally ‘have it made’ when you can remodel the world around you, to the images you saw on TV and in Movies when you were a kid.
Yes, but that last picture was a staged photo op.
That doesn’t exclude Barry from having interior decorating skills. Or Reggi Love (wasn’t that a character played by Eddie Murphy?).
But, Barry was out golfing, and skimming the gulf for oil.
My guess is that if he decorated it, the resulting CAPTION THIS thread would overwhelm the F.R. Servers.
Ouch!
I hope the next occupant brings back Churchill.
Funny thing. I worked in a bar that resembled that picture very closely.
The bear, the moose on the wall with antlers. The bar had a wood burning stove in the middle, though, instead of a fireplace.
That probably suits him better than not looking gay.
Maybe thats why he looks so haggard. He also seems to have a permanent sneer on his face. Not a strange idea at all. The ghosts probably miss W too.
I watched about 2 minutes of his SPEECH on TV tonight, and that was exactly what he looked like.
Not only that, but the Newscasters announcing the speech, sounded petulant and bored.
Ikea boy has his priorities, you know.
I thought you meant PRESIDENT not coffee table as Obama is as mismatched and out of place as anybody could be. I can think of a better word than abomination to describe Obama, TRAITOR seems to be the correct word.
But Boortz is definitely NOT a shill for Obama, as you wrongly alleged.
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"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs".....K. Marx.
I really wish you hadn’t posted that photo. Now I won’t be able to sleep. Those weren’t costumes, they were Freudian slips.
Regarding the subject; I wonder why he didn’t paper the walls with vacaton photos; there should be sufficient coverage.
ROTFLMAO!!!!!
The comments are hilarious and well thought out.
These are Hillary’s peeps? Too Funny.
Early modern goatherder tent fits Barry the bastard boy. Do we know what fag ran this sham?
The coffee table is an abomination. Completely mismatched and out of place.
You're right, the wallpaper is very nice, but it doesn't go with the furnishings. As a matter of fact, the furnishings make it look like a cozy den in a middle class suburb instead of the Oval Office in the White House.
Or praying at Our Lady of The Fairways.
Many of them deserved it.
He is an Obama/Saudi shill.
That's bull crap and you know it.
Yes, it is mismatched, it doesn't blend well with the wallpaper, the couches, or the shape of the room which are brighter in color.
It's out of place because it's sharp corners are too harsh and breaks up the overall oval/circular design of whole room. Even the desk has rounded edges and corners.
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