Maybe Chris Matthews will buy but I'm not!
Posted on 08/31/2010 10:15:18 AM PDT by Nachum
When President Barack Obama addresses the nation on Iraq tonight, his Oval Office setting will be sporting a brand new look.
While the president and his family were away on vacation in Martha's Vineyard, workers installed new wallpaper, a new rug, new chairs, lamps and a coffee table.
The famous bust of Winston Churchill has been removed and replaced with one of civil rights hero Martin Luther King.
Officials allowed photographers their first look hours before Mr Obama was due to make a speech today.
The rug - a honey-coloured carpet with the the presidential seal - has a border that includes two noted speech excerpts.
One reads 'Government of the people, by the people and for the people,' from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, some of the most famous words ever spoken by a president.
The other is 'The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally on the welfare of all of us'. It is from a speech that Theodore Roosevelt gave at the New York State Fair in Syracuse, New York, on September 7, 1903.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
sort of an Arabian look... no Navy Blue and almost no red in eye site, other than on the flag. No green...
ugghhh.. what awful taste.
Maybe Chris Matthews will buy but I'm not!
That picture is begging to be photo-shopped.
I guarantee you...a new President, if he were to remove the bust of MLK to bring back Churchill’s.....the Black KKK groups (Sharpton, Jackson) would be calling that new President “racist”
Obama hates Whitey....Jeremiah Wright should be proud
They must be friends with Michelle's 'fashion expert'.
That Marxist/Muslim POS has desecrated an historic place.
I hope when we kick his sorry a$$ out they restore the Oval Office EXACTLY as it was before.
“Nobody tell Bam that MLK was a Republican?”
Not sure about that, but the two quotes are from Republicans.
Wallpaper? Seriously?!
Anyone can throw a basket of fruit on a dorm room coffee table but the Oval office?
Say, can you point out where Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.....uh, never mind.
In my book, he ranks up there with Ronald Reagan and Joseph McCarthy.
I am VERY happy that Obama chooses not to defile the memory of Churchill by including his bust in the Obama White House.
*Honorary Citizenship.
“any future president who removes it will be blasted as a racist!”
Do you REALLY think that racism, or being called a racist, will matter at all anymore, after this administration? After Obama, removing all traces of his changes will actually be imperative to any successor. I don’t think that any otehr President will care about being called a racist and people will want to forget Obama was even there.
With younger generations of politicians coming up, they will be less politically correct and less caring about labels. There is next to no chance that anyone will have the guts to call anyone racist who wants to remove a statue of anyone. You shouldn’t be so naive that the people in my age group and slightly over will give a hoot about the racial hysterics of a minority.
If the next couple of presidents remove that statue, they won’t care about some demented hardcore race heckler screeching about racism. At this point, the tables are beginning to turn and I don’t think that anyone my age (27) or otherwise will care. My generation doesn’t care about being called a racist, I know I don’t and frankly my generation will not put up with any of this garbage.
Those whiners are in for a nasty surprise if they fancy that I and my own generation is going to pick up the tab for their criminal behavior and wanton breeding.
Looks too much like a hotel, furnishing with cheap Chinese knockoffs.
Perhaps I saw that furniture at Costco.
I like the Frederick Remington, but I think that was already there.
Speaking of hotels, the Universal Sheraton has quite a few Remingtons in the lobby.
Winston Churchill out. Ward Churchill in.
It sounds as though Michelle has influenced this with HER sense of . . . . . er . . . . ah, TASTE!!!
I just wonder what they used for the ugly boob belt around the center of the office??
Yikes!! I should have looked at the pictures first!!
It looks like a sleazy hotel . . . . . . or a whorehouse that PASSES for a sleazy hotel!!
Definitely Michelle’s hand in this.
“Winston Churchill has been removed and replaced with one of civil rights hero Martin Luther King”
Seems to be the case around FR too........people better read their history closely.
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