Posted on 04/11/2009 5:45:21 PM PDT by ml/nj
Yesterday my wife and I spent the afternoon at the National Portrait Gallery / Museum of American Art in Washington, DC, which is run by the Smithsonian Institution. I had never visited this museum before. The have some decent stuff, with a bit too PC of a presentation, but it's probably always been like that.
As is my habit when I visit such places I like to check out the museum store, and maybe pick up a book which represents what I saw during my visit. So I walk into the store and there on the right just where one walks in is a top to bottom, eight foot wide selection of Obama items. There were coffee mugs, coloring books, paper doll books, tee shirts, an assortment of idolizing books, etc. (No fake parchment birth certificates though!)
I would be willing to bet that eight years ago at this time these shelves were not filled with Bush stuff. So I wondered who it is that operates the souvenir shops at these government run sites. Does the government lease the space to some capitalist? If they do are, are there any rules regarding what might be offered for sale? If the government runs the shop, who is it who decides what to offer for sale? Does anyone here know?
ML/NJ
I get voters rage when I see an Obama bumper sticker, I could not have handled that well.
I will wait for a book to come out documenting his Impeachment... that I would love to buy and even that I might not be able to read.
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