Clinton plans to recreate his sanctum

The Guardian (U.K.) ^ | 05/21/2002 | Oliver Burkeman

[backlash]

Well, shut my mouth. This just seems so tawdry and classless. The Oval Office is a hallowed place where the President works. For a former president to build himself a playhouse modelled in such a fashion is simply adolescent. Where is the dignified Elder Statesman persona a former president is supposed to exude? It seems that too many of our former presidents are either bumbling incompetents or corrupt grifters.

[ao98]

I've only been to the Carter library, but I think an Oval office replica is standard for most Presidential library's.

What is different is the design of the Clinton's Library

[hole_n_one]

You must be alot of fun at parties...

[syriacus]

Does this mean Clinton will be spending a lot of time in his Arkansas Oval Office???

[MinuteGal]

From the architect's drawing you posted in #22, it looks like the oval office will be nestled in a double-wide trailer. The artist appears to have left out the tire swing in the yard and the washing machine on the front porch, though.

Leni

[Ronin]

ROTFLMAO!!!

It DOES look like an Arkansaw trailer home up on blocks!!!

What an ostentacious HOOT!!!

[ao98]

Not only is the Clinton library a double wide, it's a two story high double wide.

[doug from upland]

Um........he didn't pee in the sink. He did something else.

[basil]

I don't think any of the replicas are actually built to scale. The ones I have seen are smaller versions of the oval office.

[tracer]

Shades of Captain Queege. Someone should pee on his tomato plant.....

[tracer]

Oval Office, indeed. This little chamber of whores should be named the Offal Orifice....

[altair]

My mistake. Sorry.

[tracer]

Not to mention the cars and pickup trucks up on cinder blocks, with mangy hounds asleep underneath them....

[Pushi]

Will it have a sink?

[doug from upland]

Near the end of our 8-year national nightmare, a melancholy Sinkmaster sang one last time for the object of his affection. Oh, the wonderful memories. Monica and his wonderful sink provided him with what his wife, who likes girls and slept in the other room, could not provide him. Remember the good times while talking with Congressman Sonny Callahan on the phone about the life and death of American troops. Remember laughing over a cigar as world leaders waited in the Rose Garden. Remember Betty Curry hiding in the closet until they were finished. Remember the middle of the night phone sex adventures on an unsecured line when a potential enemy blackmailer was listening in. Remember the time the Great Seal was stained in the Oval Office. We are so proud of him and how he upheld the dignity of the office where Jefferson, Lincoln, and Reagan had gone before him. We miss you, Bill.

MIDI - IT MUST HAVE BEEN LOVE

Lonely evenings…when my wife was…with a woman…once again
Has she been a lezbo…all of her lifetime…has she always…hated men…hated men

I will miss your porcelain glow…very much

I love you my sink…but it’s over now
I love you my sink…more than Monica Cow
I love you my sink…but it’s over now
I must carry on…I will do it somehow

Me departure's fast approaching…Bush will be here…it’s the end
Interns gave me pleasure…but nothing like you…it is silly to pretend

So I will miss your porcelain glow…so very much

I love you my sink…but it’s over now
Love you my sink…more than Monica Cow
I love you my sink…but it’s over now
I’ll try to carry on…somehow I’ll carry on

(musical interlude)

I love you my sink…but it’s over now
I love you my sink…more than Monica Cow
I love you my sink…but it’s over now
Yes, I must carry on, I know…I’ll do it somehow

I’ll miss you my little sink…what are you gonna do
I am so afraid that I’m gonna see…they will be trashing you

I love you my sink…but it’s over now
You were my soulmate…you were my soulmate

I still love you
I love you my sink
I love you my sink
I still love you

[ladyinred]

I really think other Presidents have done the same. I recall seeing a tour of Reagans library on CSPAN, and there is his exact Oval office recreated there.
This is really not some big news story, it is just any excuse the media can find to get Bubba's name in the papers!

[exit82]

Never mind the "double wide trailer" look. There's something definitely phallic about that building. But, then, it always was all about wee Willie, wasn't it?

[Ronin]

My God...

They actually plan to have a space in there called the GREAT HALL....

Don't tell me, it will have a 5 meter tall statue of der Arkenfuhrer holding aloft a copy of "Leaves of Grass, in front of which will be plenty of space for pilgrims to kneel and adore their once and future leader.

This is surreal!!!!

[sheik yerbouty]

The estate's name? Pandemonium!

[kcvl]

I can't think of ANYONE, that I know, who would be willing to go through this STUPID "liebrary". You couldn't PAY me to go! The urge to destroy it would be tooooooo tempting. And the urge to SLAP him would be more than tempting. I hope the whole thing falls off in the river. The way it looks it wouldn't surprise me if it did. The person who designed it must have been drunk or overdosed on drugs.