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.
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Does Obama have any reference to HIS “57 states” anywhere?
32 posted on
09/04/2010 7:29:31 AM PDT by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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“Oval Office RUG gets History Wrong.”
Yeah, blame it on the rug!
The occupant of the office and chooser of the rug always gets history wrong!
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Ya know, Obama could embrace his Colonial roots and say this was intentional. And I don't mean the Kenyan side.
38 posted on
09/04/2010 7:32:24 AM PDT by
NonValueAdded
("Obama suffers from decision-deficit disorder." Oliver North 6/25/10)
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it looks like a suite in a cheap motel...
39 posted on
09/04/2010 7:34:01 AM PDT by
Chode
(American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: COUNTrecount; null and void
44 posted on
09/04/2010 7:38:13 AM PDT by
Ezekiel
(The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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Did you notice the wrinkles on the sofa skirts? That’s a sure sign of poor (or cheap) workmanship. Probably cost a fortune though...wonder if kickbacks were involved.
47 posted on
09/04/2010 7:41:01 AM PDT by
ryderann
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I find these colors muddy and depressing. Also, they should have asked Michelle’s advice and left the sofa’s arms uncovered to show how well buffed they were.
49 posted on
09/04/2010 7:43:04 AM PDT by
kitkat
(OBAMA hates us. Well, maybe a LOT of Kenyans do.)
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Better than having no Oval Office rug at all?
56 posted on
09/04/2010 7:47:01 AM PDT by
P.O.E.
(Compact Theory)
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The coffee table needs to be in an apartment, it does not belong in the oval office. Otherwise, the rest is bland but OK, IMHO.
58 posted on
09/04/2010 7:49:05 AM PDT by
coon2000
(Give me Liberty or give me death!)
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The striped wallpaper completely overpowers everything else in the room. The stripes are way too wide.
Ugly! Am abomination has been performed on the people’s house.
59 posted on
09/04/2010 7:49:09 AM PDT by
upchuck
(If we let the federal gvmnt live beyond its means, we will soon have to live below ours. ~Joe Miller)
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All this criticism is RACIST!!!!
I assumed that the rug would contain verses from the Koran.
Where are the Samburu and Masai Shields?
63 posted on
09/04/2010 7:52:35 AM PDT by
MrBambaLaMamba
(Decriminalize crime! Empty the prisons! Anything less is racist genocide!)
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“Bostonian champion of social progress”
Bolshevik?
71 posted on
09/04/2010 8:03:11 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
(This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both.)
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Why is this in the ‘Opinion’ section of the Washington Post?
This is factual reporting. It is an objectively verified screw up, on the part of the WH. Not an “opinion” piece.
If it were President Bush - it would NOT be hidden in the ‘OpEd’ pages,it would be there on the front page....
right next to the story headlined
“U.S. Unemployment rate rises again, millions continue to suffer.”
77 posted on
09/04/2010 8:15:56 AM PDT by
4Liberty
( How do you spell "moral hazard"?: $ 19, 0 0 0, 0 0 0, 0 0 0, 0 0 0.)
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It’s Bush’s fault.
Women and minorities hardest hit.
81 posted on
09/04/2010 8:18:06 AM PDT by
Bubba_Leroy
(The Obamanation Continues)
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imagine the ridicule if GWB had done something like this?
85 posted on
09/04/2010 8:33:16 AM PDT by
God luvs America
(When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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The 1970’s called and they want their couches back!
87 posted on
09/04/2010 8:45:48 AM PDT by
OCC
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Imperial pRes_ _ent Hussein Obama on girl's bike:
"Parker, King. Who cares? Moslem, Christian. Who cares?
American born. Kenyan. Who cares? Not me, dhimmis.”
98 posted on
09/04/2010 9:31:05 AM PDT by
Diogenesis
(Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Reminded ofthose questions we took on standardized tests. Which of the above doesn't fit with the rest?
100 posted on
09/04/2010 9:32:33 AM PDT by
HearMe
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I still can’t see any woven quotes in the rug....Can someone enlarge it?
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That's about one of the drabbest rooms I've ever seen outside of the cells in Marion, Illinois.
"Drab" spelled backwards is "barf".
Leni
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