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Winston Churchill out, Martin Luther King in as President Obama revamps the Oval Office
daily mail ^ | 8/31/10 | mail foreign service

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 ...


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KEYWORDS: churchill; king; office; revamps
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To: Sooth2222

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.


41 posted on 08/31/2010 10:46:39 AM PDT by Chuzzlewit
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
Those are not the same sofas that have been recovered.

Maybe Chris Matthews will buy but I'm not!

42 posted on 08/31/2010 10:47:46 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Sooth2222

That picture is begging to be photo-shopped.


43 posted on 08/31/2010 10:49:01 AM PDT by panaxanax (IMPEACH THE MUSLIM MARXIST....NOW!!!)
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To: Nachum

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


44 posted on 08/31/2010 10:49:07 AM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (Obama runs things like a Communist Chinese traffic jam)
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To: Sooth2222
I want to know who the 'decorator' was so I know never to use them!

They must be friends with Michelle's 'fashion expert'.

45 posted on 08/31/2010 10:50:00 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Nachum

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.


46 posted on 08/31/2010 10:50:37 AM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: GunningForTheBuddha

“Nobody tell Bam that MLK was a Republican?”

Not sure about that, but the two quotes are from Republicans.


47 posted on 08/31/2010 10:51:24 AM PDT by jocon307 (Let them eat shrimp!)
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To: Nachum

Wallpaper? Seriously?!


48 posted on 08/31/2010 10:52:30 AM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: Sooth2222
The drapes don't go with the casual couches and wallpaper or the modern looking coffee table. What a bunch of crap thrown together.

Anyone can throw a basket of fruit on a dorm room coffee table but the Oval office?

49 posted on 08/31/2010 10:52:46 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Sooth2222

Say, can you point out where Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.....uh, never mind.

50 posted on 08/31/2010 10:53:15 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Nachum
Winston Churchill was one of the greatest Americans* EVER. He, nearly alone, saved the world for liberty and freedom over a couple of critical years.

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.

51 posted on 08/31/2010 10:53:22 AM PDT by Onelifetogive (I tweet, too...)
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To: GunningForTheBuddha
MLK was a Socialist
52 posted on 08/31/2010 10:53:59 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Fear God and Government - especially when one tries to become the other!)
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To: Noob1999

“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.


53 posted on 08/31/2010 10:54:04 AM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: Nachum
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54 posted on 08/31/2010 10:56:02 AM PDT by cruise_missile
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To: Nachum

Looks too much like a hotel, furnishing with cheap Chinese knockoffs.

Perhaps I saw that furniture at Costco.


55 posted on 08/31/2010 10:56:51 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Need work. MBA, CPA, Black Belt. Diverse industry and cross border experience.)
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To: Sooth2222

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.


56 posted on 08/31/2010 10:58:54 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Need work. MBA, CPA, Black Belt. Diverse industry and cross border experience.)
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To: dfwgator

Winston Churchill out. Ward Churchill in.


57 posted on 08/31/2010 10:59:02 AM PDT by albie
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To: Nachum

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??


58 posted on 08/31/2010 10:59:49 AM PDT by DustyMoment
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To: Nachum

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.


59 posted on 08/31/2010 11:04:23 AM PDT by DustyMoment
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To: Nachum

“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.


60 posted on 08/31/2010 11:07:21 AM PDT by DwFry (Baby Boomers Killed Western Civilization!)
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