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.
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