Oval Office Extreme Makeover?

What do you expect from the Lui Obama XVI. I can’t afford to replace my central ac since I’ve been out of work for months, but this clown is spending our money on an office makeover?? Have a heart for the non-working Americans.

The tone deaf Obama regime continues to ignore the will of the people and spend like there’s no tomorrow. Hey, maybe they know something we don’t?

The Bush family should have been stopped from squandering money on luxuries–the obamas too. Has the message been lost somewhere in DC that American families are out of work, money & at the end of their financial rope? These people lack nothing materially yet find a new “low” every week.

If John Thain can do it, why can’t Obama?
I wonder how media matters felt about Merril redecorating the CEO’s office in the midst of a financial crisis.

All Drudge said was the oval office was madeover while the one, blessid say his name, Obama, was on his 6-10th vacation. So what do the libs do, they scream the usual, Bush did it. I’d change the carpet if I was Bush also after what Clinton did in the Oval office…yick !

If one examines the current “decoration” in the oval office, one sees no red, white nor blue anywhere. If the US flag was removed, so would those colors.
The east room was docorated in moslem colors, yellow and browns. He speaks in front of a yellow tapestry, complete with arabic symbols embedded.
Also available via search are pics of BO taking offf his shoes for a moslem prayer, right inside the white house.
Images like that are the cause of 20% of the people believing he’s a moslem. Also revealing are his insistant claims of being a christian while all along he has never refutted his moslem religion and upbringing in Indonesia. To do so in public is a death sentence under Sharia Law.
What America sees is a president that claims one thing while doing another. He does not go to church. That says enough for many.

The Bush family should have been stopped from squandering money on luxuries–the obamas too. Has the message been lost somewhere in DC that American families are out of work, money & at the end of their financial rope? These people lack nothing materially yet find a new “low” every week.
Posted by: Laura | Aug 30, 2010 12:14:02 PM____________________________________
What did the Bush family squander money on in the way of luxuries? The trips to Crawford to cut brush as opposed to the trips to Spain and Marthas Vinyard just to name 2 by the Obamas

Perhaps the editors at ABC / NBC / CBS should read the comments sections to get a true picture of how musch the citizenry dislikes the man and wants him replaced.

How hilarious that the evil darklord Bush is now held as a defense by the left! LOL! “Well, Bush did it, too!”
Let’s recap, shall we?
1. Everything Bush did was wrong and indefensible.
2. Obama just did something that Bush did.
3. Therefore, by logical extension, Obama just did something wrong and indefensible.
Game. Set. Match. Thanks for coming, liberals, and be sure to tip your waitress (with a portion of your welfare checks, of course).

1. Bush’s vacations were mostly to his ranch and the press hated it. The few times he did not go to his ranch he went to Camp David. The Press had to film Bush actually cutting up a tree with a chain saw and they thought that boring. Not the elite Press Corps cup of tea.
2. Obummer & Co. have taken so many vacations it is hard to keep up with them all including his wife’s recent trip to Spain; with all of IL joining her.
3. So when want to compare Laura Bush preserving the historic details of our WH to Bush installing new paint, carpet, etc. to the billions of vacation $$ plus redecorating under obummer; the Bush adm. lived within means of the people. Obummers never have & never will.
4. You can take the person out of the ghetto, but if that is all they know you will never take the ghetto out of the person and the obummers live up to it.

I think the White House was infested with bed bugs. They recently had the White House tented with plastic and now new carpet and drapes.

Prayer carpets facing toward Mecca…

Presidents redecorate their office. Big Deal.From what I’ve seen of the residence, can’t say I admire Michelle’s taste, but whatever, it’s his right. And I didn’t vote for him, nor will I in 2012, but this is silly stuff.

To be fair to Obama….. Many Presidents have re-decorated the Oval Office to meet their own taste.

Obama’s new slogan: “Yes we can, because George Bush did it”!

It is unfortunate these two are so completely tone deaf to the pain in the nation while they squander our tax dollars.
Anyone else angry about the fact they will spend almost 10 million this year on their private concerts at the WH? While people are struggling to feed their children? Yep, these 2 sure do know how to insult an entire nation, over and over and over. . .

all the bush stuff is so ridiculous at this point. as if there is not an obvious difference between what was done in 2004/5 or whenever BEFORE the entire economy fell apart and TODAY, in the midst of the the “greatest economic crisis since the great depression” as described by president obama. or has nothing changed? sure, maybe it’s all bush’s fault, but that doesn’t change the fact that we’re in the mess we’re in. and accordingly, does it matter what was done before the crash and by whom, and for that matter, even whose fault the crash was? and again, it’s so interesting that everything bush did was wrong and evil UNLESS obama also does it…then it’s okay. welcome to orwellville.

I have no problem with the ‘makeover’ of the White House. Every president and first lady does it.
BUT what I take exception to is the double-standard by the media. When Bush did it the media (if you can call them that) had a field day with it and criticized him. But when Obama does it it’s no big deal.

You know it’s gotten bad when you can’t even have a story about CARPET without ABC and Media Matters trying to blame Bush.

how did oboma have a personal cook when he was a community organizer

Is it a prayer rug……

Perhaps OB burned a big hole in the carpet from smoking..:0)

To be fair, yes other presidents have redecorated the White House. However, when is a president going to be the bigger man, the leader and prohibit unnecessary spending?

there was a determination that there was something stale about the Oval Office.
So they painted with no change, then they hoped new carpet would help. Then went in a new direction and replaced the drapes. to no avail. then they realized what was stale was the socialist philosophy. only one way to fix that folks send out the old worn out marxist dogma in 2012

Did they put an upolstered foot rest on the Resolute Desk for Obama to rest his dainty little feet on, since that’s the only function the Oval Office seems to have for him?
How about some more pictures of himself walking on water. That should amuse him. And please don’t let Michelle Amtoinette’s fashion designers decorate the place! It would be so tacky and gaudy looking.

ABC, right on top of another who cares “news” story.

Sure every president decorates, including George W Bush. However none have do so in such dire economic times. To lavishly spend on decorating, while many people struggle to buy a can of paint, is just another example of how this president doesn’t get it.
Oh by the way, when do I get my slice of cake?

Makeovers are indeed standard. However I have a suggestion.
To honor his christian religion while showing respect to others howb about sp,en frescoes of Jesus,. Moses and Mohammed in key scenes fom their lives. Mohammed with Allah whispering the koran in his ear would be great. For Christians it could show his disciples sneaking the wounded but still alive out of the tomb to recuperate and fake, i mean MAKE appearannces later. Moses could be shown murdering a Egyptian stone cutter and hiding the body.

I guess Media Matters is now an arm of AB News. Will the members of the mainstream media simply stop with the nonsense and letting it out that they favor one side over another? I mean c’mon already – if we didn’t know if before the last election, we knew it after. Of course we knew it long before that 0 the difference in coverage between the two parties is remarkable. But it goes to more than that – the mainstream media consistently presses for a more leftist America – it does it through the news stories it presents, the entertainment topics it presents, everything. The question is why – if most Americans are conservative why is the mainstream media so liberal? Why not challenge Fox for conservative viewers – there’s money to be made there and these are public companies with a duty to their shareholders to make money. And why was the decision made to appeal to Democrats – and when was it made? All of these questions should be answered – will someone PLEASE do the research!!!

Certainly not the first time t he WH has been redecorated nor the last I’ll wager. Can’t wait to see how it was done and at what cost but until then I don’t have enough info to form much of an opinion. Any details yet?

Hopefully, he will announce that he is taking a vacation.

Show it to us! Just show it to us.

10 years is a long time for a hard-used rug. Presumably people come and go through the Oval Office all day long.

Judging from Michelle’s taste in clothes, I hope a professional decorator was used.

Not the first time a president redecorated his office; however, it is in extremely bad taste to do so during a major recession and at a time the government is existing on borrowed funds, literally trillions of dollars. If you think Bush drove the economy into the ditch, the Obama has put deficit spending into overdrive with no end in sight. The landing will be a “crash and burn,” and you will lament for the Bush days.

EraseRacists, I don’t agree with your evaluation of Obama, but I absolutely agree with you about all this racist talk no matter what side is doing it. The job of President is extremely difficult and we should not give any time to what their race is or use terms that creates racial tension. Start focusing on the real issues like the economy, especially, unemployment.

Kristy may be on to something

that’s $376 MILLION!!… you could build and furnish several NEW WHITE HOUSES for that… this is outrageous!! No comment my arse, here is in black and white…

Didn’t he need that money for another vacation? At least when he is on vacation he doesn’t have his size 14′s on the Resolute Desk! he has worked so hard today that it is time for another vacation. Can’t wait to send him on a permanent vacation.

Wanna bet the new decorations will exhibit some new sort of international image? Color selection, or something.
Maybe a pattern of tiny images of Mao woven into the fabric. There is going to be something in the design to diminish America in another apology to the world for our greatness.

376 million!! explanation is most certainly needed, no comment not gonna cut it …

This wicked man and his wicked, rancid wife are so out of touch with America. The country eats 15 cent ramen noodles and our loser president and his loser wife think they hit the super lotto. Most American’s are having to do without, these guys are having everything, surplus in fact, on our dime and worse are rubbing it in our faces as sport.
I don’t care what Presidents did in the past, our country is broke and broken, and Obama shares part of the blame. It is demoralizing to suffering people for this man to spend our money so freely.

This guy spends 376 million on decorations? I am killing myself daily to try and find 400K for a business that will employ 50 people part time including money spent to outfit the facility.

the WH hasn’t undergone a renovation like this since Truman for all you idiots who say it happens all the time. Terrible timing, terrible decision, just like everything else Obama touches.

Gotta love the left always defending 0bama with the line “Well Bush did it too!” 0bama ran on a message of hope and CHANGE! And then changed NOTHING. And when this is pointed out the defense is to point at Bush and say “he is doing nothing different than Bush did”.
So he loses either way. Either he ran on a lie “change”, or he squandered public funds to redecorate. Or, as in this case, both.

Kudos to contagion news and drudge for exposing this… at some point this must stop. And to those who say it was approved pre-obama all I read was 2008, no exact date given. Either way, a horrendous, inexcusable move given our current economic state, one largely created by this admin!!

WONDERFUL!! While everyone in this country is worried about their future, cant pay their bills, losing their jobs, homes and stability. barack is redecorating the oval office. Taxpayer dollars? meanwhile None of us received any stimulus checks in the mail..Let’s thank the many who voted for this idiot in the first place. ! For their Ignorance in not doing the research on what his AGENDA really was. If ya’all would have only did some research, we wouldnt be in the situation were in with barack in the white house!

Obama = Thune!
How ripe!

Mrs. Obama probably had the Resolute Desk given to us by the Queen of England, given to good will. After all, Mr. Obama only used for a foot rest. Look it up on Google, see for yourself.

Oops make that Obama = John Thain, famous Bank of America/Merill Lynch executive decorator that BO liked to make fun of.
It reminds me of when I ran into Bill Ayers at the United desk at SFO complaining about not getting an upgrade. It’s not that taking business class or redecorating is wrong, but when you spend your day deploring fat cats and spendthrift ways, these actions just spit in the face of the people to which they are preaching.

why bother calling yourself a news agency if you can’t find out simple information like did Obama re-do the Oval Office

See, this is how the middle-class working family would handle the situation.
In 2008 while both parents had decent-paying jobs with a nice stock market portfolio while expenses were reasonable they decide…Let’s re-carpet the house and paint all the walls. We’ll start saving now and should be ready to go before Christmas 2010.
BUT it’s 2010, Dad’s lost his job and Mom’s hours have been cut in half. They don’t have health insurance anymore and the mortgage payment just ballooned. On top of all that, that nice stockmarket portfolio is worth less than half from 2008.
Do they go ahead with the remodeling? HECK NO! They have enough sense to know that what they thought they could afford in 2008…they can’t in 2010. The savings is needed to pay more essential crucial bills. That new carpet will have to wait.

This is not news. Could ABCNews please actually report on something of substance? Perhaps, let’s have an honest debate about how Keynsian economics has flaws. What works, what doesn’t? Lets bring some serious experts on both sides. We’re facing massive budget deficits, and we just want to add more to it. Maybe we should be having a debate about which government agencies need to be consolidated, removed, etc. because of their ineffectiveness. What is the American taxpayer getting for it’s $? Let’s talk more about how America is getting fleeced by the billions and tens of billions. Let’s stop focusing on petty crime unless it’s truly on a widespread mega-massive basis so that in aggregration it amounts to something. Let’s put some heat on both sides of the aisle when engage in pork bills. The media needs to always have an anti-government tilt no matter who is in charge of what. Are you the watchdogs? I guess not. You’re about as big a failure as the SEC was in the case of Madoff.

Stops wasting tax payer money Barry. You are never there anyway so why did it need to be revamped. Off to the next golf game?

Did it ever seem to you that, when folks from lower down the ladder take over, or otherwise get the opportunity, they really put on the dog, money is no object? People from higher up the ladder seem to have lots more class about such things.
The Bible warns about “…a servant when he reigneth…”

What a narcissist. With the economy the worst it has been in decades, BHO has the place remodled at taxpayers’ expense when he is on yet another vacation. Talk about entitlement mentality!

It should have been announced as part of the economic stimulous, putting rug weavers back to work.

I have a problem with ANY politician (Dem, Rep, or Ind) replacing any of the furnishings in ANY state office or building. Fix or replace broken or damaged items, but it has only been a couple of years since the Bush’s repainted etc. The difference….we didn’t have hundreds of thousands of people out of work. If it cost US – the taxpayers $350,000 (for example) how many families could we feed? Couldn’t this have waited for better times? Let’s put people above appearances.

The oval office is now a “crescent office”.

He doesn’t want us to see the décor. I understand that he has been slapped so often but news bloggers and right wing media.
He has changed it up to more resemble the ghetto look to appease his solid base supporters; it’s only fair. He’s black and all that classy white décor of socialite Laura Bush was just an awful eyesore for My Belle Michele. They most likely put in a Green, Black and Red Carpet, with a Southside Chicago skyline motif in place of that horrid hand painted wall paper.

Who Cares. Remodeling puts money back into the economy, provides jobs and salaries to every step of the process in the supply chain for each product used.

Why spend money on this when it’s only going to be changed in 2 years? I don’t get this but I don’t get a lot of what this President and First Lady do.

The life of a king. Just like every other tyrant communist dictator.
Why should it surprise us.

My house also went on a makeover this weekend. All I could afford was a floor mat for the front porch.

Hey…….re-decorating his office is probably the highlight of his week, and a good way to keep his non-smiling face off my tv screen for awhile. Does he hold the record for “presidential addresses” that increasingly sound like he wants Press Secretary Gibbs’ job…..just a lot of propaganda.

The moron-in-chief might not need to refurbish if he kept his marxist feet off the Resolute desk. On of the most distinguished desks in the collection and this narcissist thinks nothing of putting hios feet on it.

“the administration will have no immediate comment” – What the hell does that mean?
SARCASM – Under tough questioning by ABC, an anonymous White House Source confirmed that the sun rose this morning.

why isn’t the oval office the very model of green. Put him out on the front lawn with a folding card table and let him use sunlight to distill his urine into potable water.

Trash talkers: As opposed to your heros beck, hannity and rush, the White House is owned by the people, not the President.
Beck, hannity and rush, the multi-millionaires, get to keep their home improvement.
Poor babies, worried about tax increases. They may have to sell one of their yachts.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin
To all you libs/progressives out there, Benjamin Franklin was a real Statesman, and a Founding Father. This is the type of people Conservatives want in office! Not a bunch of Yea-Who’s.

I think we are in big trouble. Half the country has selective amnesia.

What a waste!
For this money Obama could have opened 5 more Acorn Voter Fraud Offices, he cold have dug up another 10,000 Chicago dead votes, he could have endowed another Karl Marx chair at the new Black Panther Voter Intimidation University, he could have, excuse me, you are from the FBI Trouble Maker Surveillance Unit and you want me for …… AAAhgggggggggggg.

oh please no, these people have horrible taste looking at her clothes.
No wonder her designer went belly up! I saw a pucture of the liar in chief with his feet on the desk and I wanted to throw him and his family out on the lawn, they don’t belong in OUR house.

I thought I was the only person who thought it was disgusting for the President to put his feet on the Resolute desk. Good to know there are others who were as horrified. He has no respect for our traditions and no sense of decorum.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Benjamin Franklin
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin Franklin
Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin Franklin

What’s so difficult about televising the interior of the Oval Office and letting the public see what their tax-payer dollars have bought?
No big deal – whatever government spends is usually a waste of money anyway. Why spend so much time and energy hiding this like it’s some kind of birth certificate? Let in a little sunshine. Ah, Transparency!

Bellus,
I agree with you on the real issues but saying that “‘white’ America is still racist” is characterizing over 200 million people. That’s way too broad of a statement.
Will

President Obama made good on a promise to give his $1.4 million in Nobel Peace Prize money to charity. He did not receive any of it.

He gave his Noble Prize money to charity? Good he didn’t earn that money anyway so it’s appropriate!
Obama’s aunt is living in a slum in Boston on welfare.
His brother in Kenya is living in a dirt floor tin roofed hut on $25 a year.
He made over $5 million last year and he walks around saying “charity starts at home”!

President Obama made good on a promise to give his $1.4 million in Nobel Peace Prize money to charity. He did not receive any of it.
Posted by: MikeMo1947 | Aug 30, 2010 6:06:11 PM
Nothing is enough for the right wing fringe.

So glad my family has cake to eat in place of the bread we can’t afford.

Purple drapes, orange carpet, hot-pink walls, and a stolen USA Today newspaper box for the television to set in.

Most of the people who are anti-Obama hate him for racial reasons, but will swear to God that it’s only political. I’m talking to YOU! That’s why the debate is so emotional. The animosity is much more intense than any political differences could cause. The fact is that he is doing an incredible job in the face of drop dead obstructionism from the Republicans. If he had the cure for cancer, they would not let him give it away. Don’t get mad because you know I’m right.

See what I’m saying? Nobody said a freakin’ thing when Bush redecorated or did anything like that…But since we have a Black President and the economy is bad..ABC said to themselves: “What can we say to get the Obama haters all rallied up? I know! Tell them he had the Oval Office decorated!” What do you excpect he’s the freakin’ president! People have unrealistic expectations, I know if you, me, or anybody else was in the First Family you would be taking a vacation, redecorating, by the way that’s what all the First Lady’s do and it’s their God given right…So quit acting like if you were president you wouldn’t enjoy the fruits of your labor…so don’t hate, congratulate, innovate, and quit all this stupid nonsense…that goes for all the Obama haters and ABC!

Hey Bob Hamilton… I wish the Obama’s were white so I wouldn’t have to listen to idiots like you calling everyone a racist that disagrees with his taking a wrecking ball to our country.

Hey Bob Hamilton… I wish the Obama’s were white so I wouldn’t have to listen to idiots like you calling everyone a racist that disagrees with his taking a wrecking ball to our country.
Posted by: Empty Suit Obama
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If Obama were white we wouldn’t be hearing about the President redecorating the Oval office….No one said anything when Bush did it…it was so sweet for the 1st lady to buy her expensive $10,000/pc dinner ware set, it was sooooooooooo beutiful, but when Obama’s wife does it, everybody gets their panties all in a bunch.

Is his term over yet? This all reminds me of feeling you get when you start to nod off in the first hour of a 4 hour class. Wake me at the break in November.

Wonder why Obama loves to spend other peoples money rather than his own? Oh, he’s a Chicago politician and that’s just the way they do business there. Too bad he spends it on personal self aggrandizement rather than the citizens who have to pick up the bill…

It really is pointless to bring it up the media flaks who got Obama elected and now spend their days protecting him from critisizm will only say, Bush did it too.
Hey Tapper 14 guys died in Afghanistan the last 2 days doesn’t Obama owe this country some answers?
When are you going to demand a press conference?

Mr. O’s charitable contribution to charity is a deductible item on his income tax form. He’ll get half of it back.

Even the White House gets a little of the stimulus money. I wonder if there will be some sign or plaque saying that the improvements were paid for with stimulus money…like the rest of country gets to see

I wish my life was so meaningless that i actually had an opinion on something so silly.. GL to all you that do.

After laboring feverishly during his brief stint in the U.S. Senate to engineer an American defeat in Iraq; and, to scuttle President Bush’s planned troop surge that has brought a victorious conclusion to the Iraqi conflict, Obama now contemptuously attempts to claim credit for the successful U.S. combat forces withdrawal on the BUSH timetable, a timetable that BUSH had negotiated with the Iraqi leadership. The only substantive achievement which has conveniently occurred during the Obama tenure. However, with Obama’s demonstrated propensity for mis-management, we should never underestimate his capacity for “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory” in BOTH Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama, devoid of the characteristic trait of integrity, is a despicable farce of a man who if he had even a remote sliver of common decency would give an Oval Office address to the Nation lauding the foresight and determination of his predecessor, George W. Bush, in achieving victory in Iraq. A foresight that Obama and other left-wing defeatists such as Harry Reid and his own VP were totally derelict of. 2010, followed by 2012, have become the most important elections in American history. If left unrestrained, Obama, rather thru sheer incompetence or willful intention, will do irreparable harm to America’s economic, and National Security interests. Greg Neubeck

Let them eat cake, and abc will make sure barry gets defended, how many people were at the beck program?

Obama’s motto for the last 20 months has been “Spend, spend, spend” while ABC’s has been “Spin, spin, spin”. Neither has proved effective and neither is helping the country. Guess you can always fall back to “Blame Bush”!

Ya know, I am really starting to think that all the hub-bub about Obama being so ‘smart’& Intellectual IS A CROCK OF You-know-what!
I would really, really, REALLY….LIKE TO SEE AT LEAST (1) DIPLOMA FROM THIS GUY! He’s RUINING THIS COUNTRY BY BEING ‘NOT THAT BRIGHT’ ON PURPOSE OR BY ACCIDENT —-THE RESULTS ARE THE SAME, TIME FOR HIM TO GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE! 2012 CAN’T COME SOON ENOUGH FOR ME & MOST OF THE COUNTRY!

When are the members of our illustrious media going to stop using the Drudge Report and various “internet sites” as their assignment editors? Ann Compton, you should know better.
BTW, I don’t know anything about a redecoration of the Oval Office but anyone with half a brain and google skills can find articles from 2008 (note, BEFORE Obama was President) that state that Congress approved monies to complete a major upgrade of the White House, including electrical, plumbing work, etc. in a project that would be the first major renovation since Harry Truman was President and would take roughly 10 years to complete. This is a long overdue project that has nothing to do with Obama and was approved BEFORE he was President and will still be going on AFTER he is President.
BTW, anyone with google skills could ALSO find articles from 2009 stating that the Obamas were the first President and 1st Lady in years to TURN DOWN the traditional $100,000 given to first families to redecorate the private quarters to their liking. This was already appropriated money that the Obamas could have used as every other First Family have done. Instead, they used their own money, to little fanfare. Well, you say, they’re millionaires… they can afford it. Yes, and the Bushes were millionaires too yet THEY took the money.

“Bush did it too!” I swear, will Obama’s crap EVER stink to you liberals?

when/if Bush did any redecorating of the Oval Office, our economy wasn’t in the shambles it is now.
so pre-but is actually BS

I wouldn’t get too comfortable if I were Mr. Obama. I don’t think he’ll be staying long.

WELL if you remember Good ol’boy Clinton left quite a mess(on a dress,walls floors, desk…)behind-After all that can’t blame Mrs Bush for having to sanitize the place-Clinton was a pig and a lier-remember-Bosnia-Somalia-turning his back on the WTC1bombing, Cole-list goes on-of but the economy was great thanks to Wallstreet and Tech co. -Liberals are dirty people-the chicks have hair under their arms/legs and the men well they lick it!

Since “we the people” own the house the president lives in, we should be able to watch how our money is being spent. I recently received a “smart grid analysis” of how I use more energy than my neighbor from AEP, which is completey bogus. I would like to see how the president is spending the money the goverment doesn’t earn….

I know why he had to redecorate the Oval Office for his address…
You see, he’s a chain smoker and that can really make a mess of room.
Yup, I’m reaching.
I can’t even wrap my mind around the reason why the Oval Office would need a makeover during the worst economic recession of our lives.
I can’t even buy my medicine until the first of the month and this clown is wasting my money on this?
Its so obvious he doesn’t have a clue on what REAL Americans are going through.
Hey, OBlahBlah, isn’t it time for another vacation?

Wow, such great, hard-hitting news here. With this great coverage of what matters to the masses (you know, Tapper, the ignorant people you believe us to be), I can’t understand why network news’ ratings are about the same level as Congress approval ratings.
Just imagine, if we could have gotten coverage like this on candidate (then Senator) Obama, the stimulus, the health care bill; alas, but wasn’t meant to be. The elite so-called journalists decided that the greater unwashed needed to know about Obama’s White House (oops, was I being a racist since I referred to it as White) redecoration.
It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad. If a Republican was in office, the headline would be probably shame them into spending money while the nation is in a depression (yep, not a recession folks and not a double one either; it’s a depression), but since it’s a Democrat, the media’s love, it’s okay.
Journalism is dead.

Wow, if it looks as great as MO’s outfits, the oval office will be redecorated in 2013.

@MikeMo…The right wing fringe you refer to is about 60% of the electorate. Thank God most of them have awakened from their lumbering sleep.

Then the networks should not be dictated to about the angle of view of my publics White House. It is not owned by his highness.

WHY are the cameras only allowed to focus on President Obama? What happened to TRANSPARENCY? Why can’t we see what we paid for?

Every first family receives a redecorating budget. The Obama’s already spent their redecorating budget when they moved into the WhiteHouse in 2009. So where is the money coming from to pay for more redecorating?

I don’t know the numbers between Obama and Bush. But I do know times are different today, as the Economy has suffered. Had the president shown perhaps an inkling of some modesty, this would be no big deal. What this is, is a pattern of outright disdain. Look all presidents live relatively large, but Bush spent his time on his own ranch, ditto for Reagan, Bush 41 Camp David, ditto for Clinton. Obama sends his wife and kids to the most expensive resort in the world, while Obama has played close to 60 rounds of golf in 21 months, and has taken 6 vacations. This is called rubbing our faces in it. Frankly its disgusting!

For those of you will short memories – a common problem now – The Bush’s were compelled to ‘redo’ the white house after the Clinton’s departure because Bill’s juvenile staff had trashed the place right before leaving.

IDIOTS! ALL OF THEM: Hate to burst your “Bush did it too bubble”, but he didn’t hold the disdain for the historic furniture that Obama has shown, by both sitting on top of the desk and putting his feet up on it. I looked at those photos on Google too. Isn’t amazing that the perspective and size of the both the legs and feet of Bush are EXACTLY the same as appears in the pictures of Obama’s feet on the desk??? This is the worst photoshop job I have ever seen!! Your falling for it shows the same gullability as why you would support this fraud.

Why redecorate? He will be gone soon.

dont you all get it? they are the new rulers, king and queen..what was her new name.LOUIE AND MARIA ANTONETTE.
THEY HAVE NO PROBLEM SPENDING TAX DOLLARS, THEY SHALL LIVE HIGH OFF THE HOG..AND LAUGH ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK, AS SOON AS THEY FINISH DISTROYING THE WHITE MANS EMPIOR…THE USA.. THEY HATE
capitalisum.they are like two have nots suddently winning the jack pot..buy spend and buy some more its free for our taking and noone can stop themm…how do you all like the change….he is the man…invinceble..backed up by the federal reserve..builderburg group…he is a puppet in a merry go round having the life of dreams…diamonds and preals for ma-lady…trips and luxuray on our tax dime..I bet they roll on the floor laughing…at all the fools that voted for him…CHANGE …ANYONE?

Obama is such a stupid idiot whom never worked just rode a Saudi coat tail.Why did you vote for him? Wanted to not feel guilty anymore? That got you a lot. Feel better without a job and building mosque’s on the 9/11 grounds? Pull your heads out of your butt’s and see how you and we got screwed.

The president has a right to redecorate the Oval Office. That having been said, he should be honest about it and include the changes in the shoot, and he shouldn’t be president in the first place due to not having been born in the US.
Also, for those of you who say the economic crisis was caused by Bush, that’s a total crock. Democrats pushed for Fannie and Freddie to issue loads of subprime loans to their constituents; Democrats blocked legislation that would have forced banks to keep some amount of capital reserves on hand; and Democrats, most notably Obama, Hillary, and Dodd, received significant campaign contributions from Fannie and Freddie. Democrats caused the problem, then they threw trillions of dollars down a black hole and blamed Bush for the whole thing.
Given, Bush is hardly a saint, but from an economic perspective, Obama is an order of magnitude worse.

@ “Carson | Aug 31, 2010 12:24:57″
Redecoration “approved during the Bush Administration”…BUT THE CONDITIONS HAVE CHANGED, haven’t they, since that approval?
THAT’s the thing that is irritating, that Obama in the Presidency woulnd’t have the decency (or wisdom) to cease t he spending now that he’s overspent the nation’s debt burden into near oblivion.
“Approved during the Bush Administration” but that was BEFORE Obama moved in and wrecked the ecoonomy as also engaged in seemingly perpetual spending and wastefulness and self-indulgence on other people’s money. He didn’t even have the senes to say, “wait on spending more for rugs, drapes and decorations that are not really necessary (now that I’ve run up the national debt to such a degree)”.
About the vacation (this latest one) being “paid for by friends” and the Obamas…so, fine, BUT THE TIME OFF in self-indulgence is the bothering point. He runs off to “vacation” and otherwise does not appear to have much of an idea or intent to do any more work in the Presidency other than to wreck the nation, then take another vacation.
People find his slumming (and his wife’s) to be utterly offensive. He fails to take actions that appear conscientious (or are conscientious) or responsible. Would it be so difficult for Obama to grow up and abandon his petulent teen years, just for the next, say, three years, until 2012 is over? Then he can return to his immature selfishness and lies all he wants to.

Gee a White House with paintings on velvet! Whoulda thought. Will they have “Dogs playing poker” too?

We the people can’t see the redecorations because they’re still having the finishing graffiti touches on the walls with two-tone metallic spray paint.

Don’t you get it? Republican, Democrat, Independent, Moderate, Green Party, Tea Party, Boston Tea Party…doesn’t matter, there ALL IDIOTS!!!! And the grass is ALWAYS greener on the other side!!!
Whichever party is in power ALWAYS blanks everything up, approval ratings go down, ultimately leading the vast majority of the American people voting for change?
Think about it? Carter out Reagan IN (Reagan was the exception), Bush 41 out Clinton IN, Clinton out Bush 43 IN, Bush 43 out Obama IN! Now most people want Obama out and a Conservative Republican back IN.
Again folks get real and realize that it’s a never ending cycle of the grass is greener on the other side! Has always been this way will always be this way!!

What colors represent Islam?

why is he bothering, He’s barely in his office what with his playing golf and going on all those expense paid vacations… and he is only going to be in office another 20 months
FYI..liberal loons who post racist remarks about Obama on message boards aren’t fooling anyone.

We are told, even today, that Obama is “brilliant”. Oh yes, and “cool”.
Here’s the truth of the matter, now that we can see what he does not what he speaks of … he is stupid and COLD, not cool.
Stupid … because obviously he doesn’t hear the cries of Americans who are hurting – and COLD because he doesn’t give a damn.

I hope they have the nice plastic to cover the furniture.

Did Obumbler hire Hugo Chavez’s private decorator for his socialist redo of the peoples oval office?

Seriously?
Listen up you bunch of whiny little complainers.
If you want to know who is to blame for our current situation go look in a mirror.
Or economic instability was caused by the removal of the Glassman Act that was put in place after the great depression. It was designed to keep banks stable by keeping them out of the speculation business.
It was repealed by a republican controlled congress when Clinton was president. They did it by overwhelming his veto power with a 2/3 majority.
It took less than 10 years for us to end up where we are now. ALL of you sat on your fat butts and let the government do what it wanted. Now all I see is a bunch of poorly educated half wits behaving with mob mentality.
Whats next? How long before you cross the line from blaming one person that you now call a muslim to talking about burning a cross or stringing someone up.
People like you make me sick. You want everything handed to you and you want to do NOTHING to make it better.
Get off your butts, go out and educate yourselves on what has happened in the past and get a clue on where we need to go.
Then direct your anger at the people living in 10 million dollar homes who made a killing bilking people out of their life savings and try and do something positive.

Rearranging and apparently redirecting deck chairs on the Titanic.

Every President redecorates the Oval Office to his or her liking. Non story. Who cares. Stick to the subjects that matter. Getting the Big O out of office!

Do people not get it? If Bush did it and he was wrong does that mean we continue to do it. Besides when Bush was in office the economy was not awful.

These people just don’t get it. Everything is about appearances, and in a time of extreme economic downturn, they don’t give a damn how things appear.

Why not go in an video the renovations? The White House belongs to the public, there should be no reason why the public should not know about this.

Painting the Whitehouse red,
They’re painting the Whitehouse red.
Why can’t we stop the Obama flop
He’ll make your wealth be spread!
Oh, painting the Whitehouse red
And the Constitution’s shred
Now we know
Our debt he’ll grow
He’ll bleed us till we’re dead
And still he goes ahead
Painting the Whitehouse red!
TAXPAYER:
Oh, pardon me
But Mr. Barry
Why must you paint it red?
OBAMA:
Well the vote was this
I’m planted to your freedoms take!
And…
ALL CONGRESS:
The Left
It likes it red
If red, white, and blue instead
We’d spread our lies
Till you believed us in your head!
Since we are all in bed,
We’re painting the Whitehouse red!

King Obama the Narcissistic Buffoon is back from his sixth vacation of the year to continue his Summer of Wreckovery:
Earlier this month, first-time claims for unemployment hit a nine-month high. The unemployment rate remains at 9.5% and 18.4% of workers are out of a job, can only get part-time work, or have given up looking for a job altogether. Sales of existing homes dropped 27% from June to July, hitting the lowest point since data were first collected in 1999. The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index fell to 50.4 in July, continuing a slide that started in February. And the stock market is down 11% from its peak in April.
Unite, Americans…
It’s going to take every one of us to get the Obamas, unions and parasite “social justice” Democrats off of our backs and out of our wallets.
Vote.
Democrats.
Out.
ALL OF THEM.

I guess we have recovered and everyone has a job.
WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS WHEN OUR ECONOMY IS IN THE TOILET

Hey MediaMatters, Bush HAD to redecorate. If you’ll be so kind as to recall, the Clintonistas destroyed the place on their departure. I don’t think that anyone begrudges the new first family for making some decorating changes, but being forced to redo the entire facility because of an out of control outgoing WH staff is a waste of money that never should of had to take place. As for the Obamas, this is wasteful and just another example of their disconnect and aloofness. They can’t help themselves when it comes to extravagance.

Worst Presidents in Order:
Obama – Taking us to the tipping point
FDR – New Deal prolonged depression and its remnants in the form of entitlements are killing us today
Hoover – Tariff was a major factor in cause of depression
Carter – Weakened our military and community reinvestment act started housing bubble

Are you freaking kidding me? I just read an article on how Congress is trying to CUT military pay and now I read this. God, please help us all.

Even if he changed his GOLD curtains to RED, WHITE and BLUE… the Communist in Chief is STILL a Communist… and THAT along with the Communists in Congress is the problem not the color of his drapes.

They should take the desk out (not like he’s there long enough to even warm the chair) They could replace the desk with an indoor putting green. That would get a lot more use than a desk.

Come on, “progressive media watchdog?” More like liberal or left-wing would be more fitting adjectives Ann. I guess if you use them as a reliable source, you don’t want to bite the hand that feeds you.

throw them out

while america is in pain, obama is either lavishly vacationing or redecorating…the only advantage to his vacations is for those days he is not destroying our great country.

Watching his activities is like looking up “doesn’t have a clue” in the dictionary.

Spending taxpayers’ money for redecorating at this time is not defensible. Perhaps its necessity was also somewhat questionable when George Bush did it, but the country was not in a fiscal crisis at that time. At any rate, the argument that “Johnny did it too” is playground-level mentality and says a lot about the people pushing that argument.

if you voted for this bozo you should be very ashamed

Both George W. Bush and Gerald Ford put their feet up on this same desk. Search Snopes for commentary on this practice and photos of Bush and Ford.
Just keepin’ it real, folks.

Ron | Aug 30, 2010 8:59:38 PM posted:
“I don’t know anything about a redecoration of the Oval Office but anyone with half a brain and google skills can find articles from 2008 (note, BEFORE Obama was President) that state that Congress approved monies to complete a major upgrade of the White House, including electrical, plumbing work, etc. in a project that would be the first major renovation since Harry Truman was President and would take roughly 10 years to complete. This is a long overdue project that has nothing to do with Obama and was approved BEFORE he was President and will still be going on AFTER he is President.
BTW, anyone with google skills could ALSO find articles from 2009 stating that the Obamas were the first President and 1st Lady in years to TURN DOWN the traditional $100,000 given to first families to redecorate the private quarters to their liking. This was already appropriated money that the Obamas could have used as every other First Family have done. Instead, they used their own money.”

At first I was concerned for the extra expense during these tough economic times, then I saw that Bush did it too.
I guess Obama can do whatever Bush did and that makes it okay. As a matter of fact, that seems to be his overall strategy. Take what Bush did and amplify it by 10 so that our great grand children will be paying for his fiscal irresponsibility.

Time for Impeachment -SOON!

It’s about time a real throne was installed for His Majesty.

the comments on a nothing story like this make me sad for my country — these people are obviously NOT intelligent, obviously are easily manipulated by the Far Right Wing.
And still do not know they are the enemies of America — siding with the Corporate Elite Republican / Tea Bag Machine…. designed to make them look and sound like fools.
Great job Far Right Wing Media.

“the network television camera will be allowed to focus only on the President at his desk, without wider angle views of the office drapes and furniture…”
Wait – I thought the Democrat Party was the champion of freedom of the press! Now they’re going to limit what the cameras can show? Incredible!

No one would even make a big deal of this, if so many people weren’t out of work and collecting government benefits. When the first family moved in January 2008, the WH got their decorating budget like every other president and his family. And they spent their full budget allowance. They hired reknown designer Michael Smith and redecorated and included in the budget was the President’s office space that was ‘redecorated’ when he moved into the space, while all Bush’s personal items and office items were removed and redone. Only the drapes and the carpet were retained in the President’s office as the Obama’s exhausted their decorating budget in other WH rooms.
It would seem that extensive renovations and decorating of the East wing occurred for all the excessive new staff for FLOTUS, which exhausted their budget. Now while the economy suffers greatly, they think they should take 6 vacations in 8 months, and redecorate.
Clearly they send a vibe that is heartless and unconcerned about the people. Not too mention, that their budget allowance was already spent by them.

Why is MediaMatters.org, a far-left site, described as a “progressive media watchdog site”?

Derrc | Aug 31, 2010 9:12:52 AM posted: “Unite, Americans…It’s going to take every one of us to get the Obamas, unions and parasite “social justice” Democrats off of our backs and out of our wallets.”
“Off our backs”? Toxic mortgage derivatives built over the past decade are still weighing down banks and Wall Street. Since the Recession began in 2007, more than a tenth of U.S. banks are STILL at risk of failure.
“Parasites”? From 2002 to 2007 the wealthiest 1% of American families hauled in 2/3 of our nation’s income gains.
“Social Justice”? At the same time, America’s poverty rolls increased from 32 Million to 40 Million.
And “our wallets”? By 2007 the Middle Class income was lower than at the start of 2001. It was the first economic expansion since records have been kept that poverty increased and the typical US family lost income.
“Unite, Americans”….It’s going to take every one of us to prevent a return to the dark Supply Side.

For heaven’s sake…is everyone forgetting that you should check facts before you vent your frustration and anger? President Obama is not using goverment funds…he and his wife are absorbing the cost for the redecoration of the oval office. If you would look INTO the facts before you express yourselves, you would not come across as a pack of foolish, uninformed and grossly prejudicial human beings! You only serve to incite others who are also uninformed and choose to spew their venom in a manner that violates every standard of common sense and decency!

This isn’t a partisan issue, and compared to the speculatively irrecoverable depression that this country has fallen deeply into, the amount of money used to redecorate doesn’t really matter, regardless of who paid for it. Especially in this economic climate, it shows a lack of good sense. More than that, it reflects the epidemic departure from good values which is NOT confined to any political party. Consumerism, a grossly inflated sense of entitlement, greed, moral relativism, and the apparent abandonment of good sense are apparently the problems, all the way to the top…and it seems to be getting amplified down through the generations. Nice example for the nation, chief.

George “W” Bush HAD to redecorate the Oval Office. Remember, Brother Bill not only stained Monica’s dress but also the rug. Just get the “hebby-jebbies” thinking about that pig, Bill……

The Obamas first initiative to utiize free enterprise…or, wait…did the government by a decorating franchise?

Posted by: IndependentVoice | Sep 2, 2010 1:16:47 PM “Bush spent around $100,000, Obama spends millions. SEE a problem?”
He spent millions on redecorating the Oval Office? What source told you that nonsense?
Let’s perpetuate that sense of righteous grievance, impending disaster, and disdain for “others” who don’t embrace Conservative orthodoxy.

Worst Presidents in Order:
Obama – Taking us to the tipping point. Closer for the NWO’s plans for a unified North American Union and World Govt. A total puppet who can’t talk without a teleprompter.
Bush 2 False Flag 911 to garner support for war and men in caves. If you disagree tell me how building 7 fell? Signed over America to the bankers.
Bush 1 Started the conflict were still in due to stealing oil from Irak by angle drilling from Kuwait
Clinton- Who started the ball rolling on the current financial crisis by changing the lending laws with prompting from ACORN (Obama) and others.
FDR – New Deal prolonged depression and its remnants in the form of entitlements are killing us today
Hoover – Tariff was a major factor in cause of depression
Carter – Weakened our military and community reinvestment act started housing bubble
Last great President- Kennedy who was assinated by forces withing the Govt who did not like his plans to get us off the Fed as well as others.