2nd Oval Office Readied In White House Rehab Project

http://realclearpolitics.com/ ^ | February 1,2013 | Alexis Simendinger

[Biggirl]

In preparation for a major, two-year renovation of the West Wing, the government is undertaking extensive work to complete a new executive office for President Obama at the south end of the adjacent Eisenhower Executive Office Building, RCP has learned.

[Tucker39]

Glenn Beck has an exact replica in his TV empire; why can’t they borrow that?/Sarc

[GnL]

I can't wait to see the new place!

[Colorado Doug]

ValJar is kicking him out of the first one but said that he may have a smaller oval office down the hall.

[Scrambler Bob]

Billy C used the first oval orifice (maybe shades of Jack K),

not bo wants the second oval orifice — the one he likes.

[Humal]

Maybe George Soros is leasing it so he and Obama will be closer to collaborate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2981938/posts It SHOULD be the closest Soros can get to occupying the White House.

[deputytess]

Great! The Sandy victims are still without homes; power & infrastructure & this tool is getting a second office. Wonder how much are we’ll get soaked for this redecorating scheme?

[radu]

Heck, he doesn’t need a second office. He’s NEVER in DC to use the existing one as it is!

[Texas Fossil]

The West Wing renovation is the latest phase of a significant project that resulted last year in the completion of a secret bunker-like facility deep underneath the White House driveway. The work also included construction under West Executive Drive, the private lane between the two buildings in the White House complex. The drive is ostensibly used as a VIP entrance for vehicles and as a parking lot.

Although officials described the excavation project completed last year in front of the West Wing lobby as an upgrade of air conditioning, plumbing and basic “infrastructure,” reporters chronicled the mysterious cavalcade of heavy trucks -- their commercial identifiers covered over -- as they deposited steel beams, huge pipes, concrete, electrical equipment and even a hot water heater into the cavernous hole.

OK. This is a hardening of the White House. And a way to mask who comes and goes (Foreign and Domestic). Remember the Won does not keep a White House visitors log in the way that previous POTUS did. You draw your own conclusions about what is going on here.

[Ezekiel]

Another place to rest his feet on our furniture.

Watch for their usual greasy Super Bowl feast to be spread out and smeared on the American People's furniture, rugs, and time-honored antiques.

[Tax-chick]

Oh, that’s right ... it’s the Stupor Bowl this weekend. I keep forgetting. Didn’t I read that BO said everyone should feel bad about watching, because players can get hurt?

I expect that within a year, the Presidential Palaces will be openly identified. Zero can’t let a piker like Saddam Hussein or Mugabe outclass him.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Something stinks here. The entire building was completely rebuilt and renovated during the Truman administration in the late 1940s to early 1950’s.

[SteveH]

keyboard spew alert