Question: Has the White House really been transformed into a cult of personality shrine to "The One"?
A week or so ago, we told you about a trip we took down to the Museum of Science and Industry here in Chicago, to see the miniature White House on display (which the Zief Family has been keeping updated with every administration since Kennedy).
The miniature is gorgeous, and a fantastic educational tool to show you where everything in the White House is in relation to what you see glimpses of in photographs. Honestly, after seeing this model, everything we hear about the White House makes a lot more sense now that we saw the spatial layout the Ziefs have provided.
In EXACTING detail, right down to the pens and paper on desks in the West Wing, and what’s on the computer models at each tiny work station in the building.
So, as we mentioned before, we thought it was completely bizarre that the Ziefs filled the West and East wings with crazy, oversized, obnoxious photos of the current president and his “fashion icon” life. Photos that look like they were cut out of People magazine, enlarged, then plastered all over the walls.
On “The West Wing” and in movies like “Dave” or “An American President”, the West and East wings had oil paintings of Americana, or various landscapes, or even portraits of various famous Americans. There were no giant photographs of Jed and Abby Bartlett on the walls, constantly watching over everyone in oversized, ubiquitous glossies.
So, we just assumed the Ziefs stuck these giant photos of Dr. and Mrs. Utopia up all over their model because: (1) they were told to by the Museum of Science and Industry, which is very pro-Utopia propaganda or (2) the Ziefs themselves are Utopian cultists and wanted as many photos of this pair crammed into the model as possible.
Today, in our mailbox, someone sent us an eye-opening article from Newsbusters that actually presents another option to the above: the Ziefs put giant, oversized, obnoxious photos of the Utopias into the model because there are actually giant, oversized, obnoxious photos of the Utopias in the West and East wings. EVERYWHERE in the White House, apparently.
Here’s what Ed Schultz had to say upon visiting the White House recently:
SCHULTZ: First of all you walk into the White House, in the West Wing, and there are picture all over, I mean everywhere! Of President Obama! I mean, of his life in the first year as president of the United States. Now I don’t know if that’s the way it is with every president, but it was almost a shrine. I mean, well, here’s a picture of Obama the president with his kids over here. There he is getting on Air Force One. Here he is with some military people. Here he is on the line working the line at one of his campaign stops. I mean, just, it was just one picture after another! (laughs)
Can anyone confirm if this is true?
Have you seen any photographs of people working in the West or East wings lately? Are there really giant, poor-quality, ubiquitous photos of the Utopias EVERYWHERE?
Was this the case in the Bush or Clinton administrations?
As we’ve said, we’ve never seen this done in any previous White House, to our knowledge, and we’ve never seen it done in any TV show or movie depicting the White House. It’s not done on 24 currently with President Allison Taylor’s administration.
The only time we’ve ever seen anything like this was in Saddam Hussein’s palaces in Baghdad, or in Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela. It’s the sort of thing that was prominent in the Berchtesgaden Eagle’s Nest built for another of history’s petty egomaniacs, and the sort of decorating favored in Italy in the early-to-mid-1940s as well.
If you don’t think the constant bowing and scraping before anyone he believes is royalty (including the Mayor of Tampa) is un-seemly, if not un-American, behavior by this president, then perhaps you have no problem at all with the giant portraits of the Utopias hanging everywhere in the People’s House, but we think a little more class and a lot less crass is in order for the next three years.
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My family is a long time supporter of the WH Historical Association of the People’s House, which is rich in history, not Barry and Michelle’s “crib”.
Here’s more information with a contact link:
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Hillbuzz guys-thanks for the tour down memory lane, my favorite museum was the Field Museum-I wanted to move in there but since I was 5, my mom wouldn’t let me. All I can say is GROSS-pictures of Obama everywhere ???YUCK. What’s next the “dentist office green” that Mrs. Kennedy worked so hard to get rid of. No taste, and it does not speak well to the mental acuity of current resident, in plain English Obama is insane. Must be frightening to all who have to work in the Obama zoo. Guys take a trip to the Art Institute that will cleanse your mind after the assault to your senses of the Obama Bizarro Version of how to tastefully decorate a White House.
Hmm, anyone know if Eva Peron was prone to wearing gigantic wrestler belts? Imelda was probably more likely to be a belt-o-phile.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/modules/lesson12/lesson12.php?s=7#
Imelda wearing the Philippine national dress or “Terno”. The terno was actually her “uniform” even until now as an old woman.So no belt for this former first lady.In fairness to my former first lady,in her younger years is beautiful than MO…just saying
Thanks for the information, completely torpedoes my transparent effort to link her legendarily excessive shoes and wardrobe to Versailles on the Potomac though
Yes, Imelda was a very, very beautiful woman. She was not crass. She had grace
She still has grace and dignity, even if she is not still so beautiful.
But still doesn’t completely torpedo your effort. There was/is excess. The success of the excess is not the point.
Niether of those women had a caboose as big as texas the way MO does.
fashion statement-Distract from the butt as big as a house by wearing ugly clothes!
Imelda Marcos…that’s who they remind me of. If you’re old enough to remember the Marcos’ from the Phillipines when they got exiled because they worshipped themselves (Imelda had thousands of pairs of shoes in her closet) and the people were living in poverty while they lived the lives of bazillionaires and the people rose up and thru their butts out in the Pacific ocean and shamed for the rest of their lives. All the while they were in denial and boo-hooing about it. That is EXACTLY the way the Obama’s act.
Will history repeat itself? The Marcoses were in exile in Hawaii.
Bev,
I was 11 years old when the People Power throw them out of the country…If you ask people they will say their lives did not get better after the Marcoses were thrown out of power. In fact prices of basic commodities nearly doubled under Pres. Aquino’s administration.
The shoes shocked the entire country because we couldn’t believe one woman is capable of owning more than 3,000 pairs of shoes! Later I read that a lot of it were actually gifts from the shoemakers in Marikina City-the shoe-capital in the Phils. And she would wear these shoes especially abroad to promote our shoe industry.
Imelda Marcos was into shoes. I do not remember her wearing the hideous belts with every outfit. She was always a good dresser.
My daugters BIL works at the WH….mlitary posiion. I’l have her ask him about this.
sorry……something is up with my keyboard!! Skipping letters like mad.
Turn your keyboard upside down and shake some schmutz must have gotten in there.
…or put it in the top drawer of your dishwasher. It will clean it out good and not harm the electronics.
Doug! REALLY??
Michelle…I’ve tried the shaking and blowing to no effect. Changed the batteries, re-channel locked it….it’s a wireless one. Who knows….it’s just one more damn thing!
Bite the bullet and buy a new keyboard. I do every couple of years because of the cat hair and chocolate build up.
WOW! She normally does not respond to me this quickly! Her BIL works IN the West Wing at the moment….she will ask him about this but is at work today so it will be later. (She tends to think her old Mom is a conservative loony who must be tolerated at best!)
Hey, there is a photo value in the 3rd world …
a good photo is a big photo.
No matter if one is in a villa or a hut … a good photo is a big photo.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree!!!
I wasn’t in the WH during either Bush or Clinton, but was a guest of the President during the Carter and Reagan administrations. Neither one had many pictures at all of either President. Reagan had some great Remington art.
I was in Bush 41′s office in Houston once. I was in his conference room and private office. He had a lot of pictures of his family, but I don’t remember any of him. In his conference room, he had books on one side and all kinds of memorability regarding “Desert Storm” (very, very interesting). Then in another shelving area he had all kinds of Bibles (different versions) and Christian literature.
You have to know that if someone like Schultz picked up on the pictures it had to be a lot.
“memorablia” not “memorability”
Came across this picture that shows the president in the Oval office, surrounded by aides, all dressed like slobs. Not what you asked for, but just thought it is revealing of the mind set of these people:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/imagecache/gallery_img_full/image/image_file/P032909PS
Interesting. Someone must be monitoring HB; the link is gone. You’re coming up in the world, Boyz, if the WH is monitoring you.
Blame my initialitis on too many years as an IT geek – it’s so much simpler to type DOS rather than Disk Operating System.
We know we are monitored by the WH. We have been told this. There is someone there whose initials are RE who does not like us one bit. We don’t like him either, so the feeling is mutual.
Hey Rahm!
Well, looky here. Here’s your lovely Zena Warrior Princess throwing more Ninja Stars at your dear friend RE…
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/02/its-on-palin-targets-rahmbo-wants-him-fired-for-caustic-remarks/
Seems he learned what she could do to someone from his brother who took two days to apologize for HIS remarks.
Here it is, folks
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/4291880248/
Just typed in the jpg file number into Google and presto, it showed up on Flickr.
Good grief! They look like a bunch of college kids waiting for the pizza to arrive!
In all fairness, though,it was a Sunday night. I know a lot of people who wear suits on weekdays to the office, but if they have to go in on weekends, they “slum it”. I’m willing to give them a pass on this one -
I’m late to this thread, but…
Thought the Hillbuzz guys might like to see their beloved Princess on a visit. Is it me or is she looking rather hunchy and troll-like? (this is a pic THEY released; not as if someone caught her at a bad moment)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/4291161633/in/photostream/
And, is it me or does the O.O. look especially spartan and devoid of personal items, Americana on the desk and bureaus?
Wow. That’s weird. I tried it too and all I got was a blank page. No error message or anything. Nothing.
So sad… Ronald Reagan wouldn’t even take his coat off in the Oval Office out of respect for the position and those who served before him.
Exactly. Reagan was a man who understood that he was a servant of the people, not vice versa. He understood that the office is a burden, not a trophy.
*wanders off, grumbling under her breath*
Is the picture of obama sitting with his feet ON the Resolute desk?
No, this is a different one. Though, the one with his feet on the desk really steams me . . .
There are at least TWO of those. One the first or second day in office calling I think Israel. The second just appeared a couple of days ago and had a couple other people in the room with him.
The man has no respect for anything or anyone.
Same dress code as the groping “Cardboard Hillary” party ? Slobs indeed.
That is really weird. I don’t have a lot of pictures of myself in my house, because well, I don’t usually get my picture taken that often and anytime I want to look at myself, I can go look at the bathroom mirror.
me too….I take photos all the time, for fun and for pay. But if someone wants to take one of me I always reply that I ‘take the pics, am not IN the pics’!
Note sent to my daughter, we’ll see what she hears.
My husband is retired military and he worked for an Asst. Sec. of Defense during the Clinton years (he couldn’t stand the arrognace of some of the Dems back then, wouldn’t want to have to see what it’s like now!) and we did know some people who worked in the White House and we visited the West Wing a number of times.
The West Wing was very tastefully decorated and I don’t recall seeing any large photos/wall hangings of the Clintons. Believe me I would have noticed, not being a Clinton fan myself!
If the White House really does look like that now, God help us all. That man really is a psycho, and I’m not trying to be mean.
As pitiful as the Dems are acting lately they should be more in the ashamed range due to corruption/incompetence. What in the world do they have to be arrogant about? They’re proud of being the worst admin on record, with the Leader at the top of the lowest of the low chart.
They are going in the direction they want to go, regardless of what everyone else thinks, and dragging everyone else with them. What’s not to be arrogant about?
Just found this audio from Weasel Zippers:
MSNBC Lefty Ed Schultz Says White House Has Been Turned Into a “Shrine” to Obama: “It’s Just One Picture After Another”…
http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2010/02/msnbc-lefty-ed-schultz-says-white-house-has-been-turned-into-a-shrine-to-obama-its-just-one-picture-.html
Obviously the end is photo shopped, but I really like the Chia Head…lol!
I just wonder what he will do when he loses the next election. Will he try to declare martial law? Order the AG to investigate and try to have the results nullified? Or maybe have some of his Chicago ‘friends’ make some ‘adjustments’?
I trust him no further than I can throw him
Along with most of the American people I don’t think any world leader trusts him either. He lies, does not keep his word. I think other world leaders are watching the Obama fiasco play out-they know our Constitution and are just watch to see what develops.
16 lies in 7 minutes. That’s got to be some kind of record.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/16-lies-in-7-minutes-state-of-the-union-video-breakdown.html
Actually there is one world leader who likes him…. the detestable Kevin Rudd (also known as KRudd)from Australia is a real mimic of the Obot….. or could it be the other way around? Both are tone deaf about the fact that there is no global warming… both refuse to acknowledge that AGW is a scam.
His concession speech will try to paint him as someone who COULD have made the country better…if it hadn’t been for blah blah blah. Then he’ll start trying to manipulate from the shadows.
We think if he is defeated, he will go sulk in Hawaii. His Utopians will be ousted from the DNC.
The thing is, he isn’t LOVED by anyone. He does not have longtime loyalists with him. He’s surrounded by opportunists like himself. When he goes down, he’ll be alone. If defeated, he’ll be Nixon after the resignation. The MSM will be all about either President Hillary or President Palin, whichever one is 45.
44 will slink off to the island, where he’ll build his presidential library as a great shrine to himself.
Wouldn’t put it passed him to takeover Iolani Palace for that purpose.
Just like in the state of the union! I *could* have done better – but you didn’t give me a chance.
Sounds like: you would LOVE the health care bill…if only you understood it. Maybe I’m not making myself clear…
I can imagine the concession speech….”Blame it on George Bush”…. or it could be that he might blame that “bloody Jeff Kennett” (not sure if the song is on you-tube.
To explain, Jeff Kennett was the Victorian Premier who had to clean up the mess left by John Cain the former Premier in Victoria. I am not joking when I say that in those days Victoria, Australia went to the dogs when John Cain became Premier. His father had also been a total disaster and as a result Henry Bolte of the Liberal-Country Party had power for 21 years.
The thing was, when Jeff Kennett lost power… or around the time when his fortunes changed there was a song on the radio called “Bloody Jeff” and everything was blamed on Jeff Kennett.
We have had similar patterns with the ALP which is equivalent to your Dems spending up like one thing and creating a fiscal mess. Then the Libs have to clean it up again.
I can’t find a better way to do this as the pic doesn’t have it’s own link, but go here
http://www.theobamafile.com/_family/ObamaRobinsonMarriage.htm#WhiteHouseShrine
And scroll to the bottom to see how fabulous Obama thinks he is. (Serious photo, not photoshopped, though I wish it was because it would then not be so creepy.)
OT but Interesting article at that link about Michelles Mom and “practicing Santeria, an African spirit cult, in the White House.”
I was in the White House during the Bush Administration. I was in the West Wing, briefly, and a staffer gave me a tour of the East Wing while my husband had a meeting with President Bush.
There were no pictures of the Bush’s anywhere around. I did get to meet Barney the dog in the Rose Garden, though! Miss Beasely was not allowed to roam about as I guess she was something of a bitch.
Anyway, the artwork in the waiting room of the West Wing and in the Roosevelt Room was classic, fine oil paintings. It was beautiful.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/4291192735/
Sure does like to look at himself.
Are there really giant, poor-quality, ubiquitous photos of the Utopias EVERYWHERE?
The only time we’ve ever seen anything like this was in Saddam Hussein’s palaces in Baghdad, or in Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela. It’s the sort of thing that was prominent in the Berchtesgaden Eagle’s Nest built for another of history’s petty egomaniacs, and the sort of decorating favored in Italy in the early-to-mid-1940s as well.
Hilarious but not surprising.
Obama is a Fascist
Obama could replace all his ugly pictures of himself with this hunk.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=shemar+criminal+minds&rlz=1W1GPEA_en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=Sm1oS-7NJsi0tgeA1ZDRBg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CB8QsAQwAw
Michelle,
Those are the pictures the current president keeps under the bed, where he thinks no one will find them. Along with his copies of Freshman and back issue of Playgirl.
I love Criminal Minds everyone on that show is so good and I like to learn how the criminal mind works. Can’t wait until a show does a roman a clef re: Obama.
Oh, he *is* fine…
I wouldn’t doubt that he has pictures of himself everywhere. He’s a narcissist. Read this piece that was written almost a YEAR ago:
The chilling explanation of why Obama is cool
by Cynthia Yockey on February 12, 2009
Much is made of Obama’s so-called cool and calm demeanor and how this makes him superior to ordinary mortals who get emotional about stuff, and how this means he clearly has magic powers to keep all of his contradictory and often mutually-exclusive promises because if he didn’t, why, then we would know because he’d act all nervous about what will happen when the jig is finally up and the chickens have come home to roost.
Well, besides Obama’s success in rigging the game in every possible way so that he comes out on top no matter what, so he doesn’t have to be nervous, there’s this: he is missing the vital faculty that would allow him to be nervous and have emotions other than anger, rage, gloating and glee.
Obama does not have a conscience.
God help me, and of all people, Ann Coulter spotted this first in her column, “Obama’s Dimestore ‘Mein Kampf’.”
In my first post on this, I recommended The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout, Ph.D., as the best guide for understanding Obama (and his less-accomplished ilk).
Dr. Stout both amplifies and sharpens the American Psychiatric Association’s definition of “sociopath” as follows on pp. 6-8 of the paperback edition of her book:
Other researchers and clinicians, many of whom think the APA’s definition describes simple “criminality” better than true “psychopathy” or “sociopathy,” point to additional documented characteristics of sociopaths as a group. One of the more frequently observed of these traits is a glib and superficial charm that allows the true sociopath to seduce other people, figuratively or literally — a kind of glow or charisma that, initially, can make the sociopath seem more charming or more interesting than most of the normal people around him. He or she is more spontaneous, or more intense, or somehow more “complex,” or sexier, or more entertaining than everyone else. Sometimes this “sociopathic charisma” is accompanied by a grandiose sense of self-worth that may be compelling at first, but upon closer inspection may seem odd or perhaps laughable. (“Someday the world will realize how special I am,” or “You know that after me, no other lover will do.”)
In addition, sociopaths have a greater than normal need for stimulation, which results in their taking frequent social, physical, financial, or legal risks. [CY: Or running for president of the United States after serving just a few months in the Senate and having hardly ever done an honest day's work in one's life.] Characteristically, they can charm others into attempting dangerous ventures with them, and as a group they are known for their pathological lying and conning, and their parasitic relationships with ‘”riends.” Regardless of how educated or highly placed as adults, they may have a history of early behavior problems, sometimes including drug use or recorded juvenile delinquency, and always including a failure to acknowledge responsibility for any problems that occurred.
[CY: If you follow Obama's recent "I screwed" up over Daschle's nomination statement you'll see he only admits an error when he can immediately shift the blame, trivialize what he did, demonize the people who object and turn the page to bring in his next con. So his "I screwed up" is not really an admission of an error at all. In fact, if you pay attention whenever he's caught in an error or mistake, you see he puts on his Uncle Scar face, raises his voice a bit for emphasis, and begins to say simple declarative sentences that are true and in the general subject arena, but which have nothing to do with admitting any error. He goes on long enough to make you wish you were dead, and to give him credit for forthrightly answering the question. I'll cover the whole sequence in a future post.]
And sociopaths are noted especially for their shallowness of emotion, the hollow and transient nature of any affectionate feelings they may claim to have, a certain breathtaking callousness. They have no trace of empathy and no genuine interest in bonding emotionally with a mate. Once the surface charm is scraped off, their marriages are loveless, one-sided, and almost always short-term. If a marriage partner has any value to the sociopath, it is because the partner is viewed as a possession, one that the sociopath may feel angry to lose, but never sad or accountable.
All of these characteristics, along with the ’symptoms’ listed by the American Psychiatric Association, are the behavioral manifestations of what is for most of us an unfathomable psychological condition, the absence of our essential seventh sense — conscience.
Crazy, and frightening — and real, in about 4 percent of the population.
On p. 12, Dr. Stout points out how sociopaths can fool everyone at least some of the time and addresses the emotional emptiness of their condition — the emptiness that, joined with their abnormal fearlessness and need for stimulation, comprises the foundation of their ability to be cool:
Robert Hare, a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, has developed an inventory called the Psychopathy Checklist, now accepted as a standard diagnostic instrument for researchers and clinicians worldwide. Of his subjects, Hare, the dispassionate scientist, write, “Everyone, including the experts, can be taken in, manipulated, conned, and left bewildered by them. A good psychopath can play a concerto on anyone’s heartstrings …. Your best defense is to understand the nature of these human predators.” And Hervey Cleckley, author of the 1941 classic text The Mask of Sanity, makes this complaint of the psychopath: “Beauty and ugliness, except in a very superficial sense, goodness, evil, love, horror, and humor have no actual meaning, no power to move him.”
To help her readers recognize the sociopath in his various guises, Dr. Stout presents stories of fictional sociopaths who are composites of sociopathic characteristics. Obama is most like her character, Skip, who is a scion of a wealthy family, intelligent and handsome, whose grades in school were only average, but who has married the daughter of a billionaire and risen to CEO of an international company through his daring and skill in business.
After profiling Skip and noting the he has attained the pinnacle of success — the opposite of our image that the sociopath looks evil and exists only in the dregs of society — on pp. 43-45, Dr. Stout notes:
… What is the worst part of this picture, the central flaw in Skip’s life that makes him into a tragedy despite his success, and into the maker of tragedies for so many others? It is this: Skip has no emotional attachments to other people, none at all. He is cold as ice. … Skip is intellectually gifted, and he is fabulous at the gamesmanship of business. But by far his most impressive talent is his ability to conceal from nearly everyone the true emptiness of his heart — and to command the passive silence of those few who do know.
Most of us are irrationally influenced by appearance, and Skipper has always looked good. He knows just how to smile. He is charming, and we can readily imagine him showering flattery on the boss who gave him the Ferrari, meanwhile thinking him the fool, and underneath it all being incapable of gratitude toward anyone. He lies artfully and constantly, with absolutely no sense of guilt that might give him away in body language or facial expression. He uses sexuality as manipulation and hides his emotional vacancy behind various respectable roles — corporate superstar, son-in-law, husband, father — which are nearly impenetrable disguises.
And if the charm and the sexuality and the role playing somehow fail, Skip uses fear, a sure winner. His iciness is fundamentally scary.
…What makes him tick? What exactly does Skip want?
Dr. Stout then writes about the emotional connections that motivate people who do have consciences, then contrasts their experiences of connection and emotion with how the lack of a conscience motivates Skip and structures his perception of others (pp. 45-47):
And so without our primordial attachments to others, what would we be?
Evidently, we would be the players of a game, one that resembled a giant chess match, with our fellow human beings as the rooks, the knights, and the pawns. For this is the essence of sociopathics behavior and desire. The only thing Skip really wants — the only thing left — is to win.
… Skip is brilliant at winning. He can dominate. He can bend others to his will….
He is Super Skip. Strategies and payoffs are the only thrills he knows, and he has spent his entire life getting better and better at the game. For Skip, the game is everything, and though he is too shrewd to say so, he thinks the rest of us are naive and stupid for not playing it his way. And this is exactly what happens to the human mind when emotional attachment and conscience are missing. Life is reduced to a contest, and other human beings seem to be nothing more than game pieces, to be moved about, used as shields, or ejected.
… Controlling others — winning — is more compelling than anything (or anyone) else.
The next book by Dr. Stout on my reading list is The Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior–and How We Can Reclaim Our Courage. The book was inspired by the 9/11 attack. But I expect it will give me tools to use to cope with Obama’s use of fear-mongering and terrorism as his ever-reliable Plan B when charm, false promises and seduction haven’t gotten him the total domination to his will that he seeks.
well, um, sounds a little like someone I know pretty well. And, well, it would be incredibly scary if *he* had any sort of power.
Someone needs to tkae a picture of this soon before they remove the photos. Anyone have a connection there now? A cell phone picture will do.
I do and I am trying!
When you can say two different things at the same time and believe both are true, who needs arrogance?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg0n0nIqgrc&feature=player_embedded
Un.Be.Liev.Able.
Great observation! Also known as “sophistry”, a trademark of a masturbator – uh, master debater.
Off topic here, but speaking of stuff that is getting pulled, have ya’ll seen the story this morning on Reuters about backdoor taxes on the middle class? It got pulled. Fortunately for us, there’s a version on Free Republic:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2442680/posts
Post number 34 has the details.
Thanks, Marjo! I was looking for the “mysterious” article that was pulled.
I’m sure that Herr Obama demanded that Reuters pull it.
This is all getting WAY too fascist.
Here’s a direct link to the story that was “yanked” by Reuters.
White House spies: KISS MY ASS!
http://dailypaul.com/node/123660
seriously…increasing taxes – will only decrease the revenues. The projections are always wrong. Decreasing taxes by Bush INCREASED revenues. YES increased revenues. So when the dems keep pulling the old: well, bush was so irresponsible cause he decreased taxes…the conveniently forget to add that REVENUES INCREASED (of course, the repubs were awful, cause spending increased MORE than the increase in revenue – THAT was the problem, not the decrease in the tax rates).
I even read that the dems are thinking that cause this is a recession, they may extend the tax ‘cuts’ – which is a crock – they are well aware that when those ‘cuts’ expire…revenues will DECREASE even more…
Big Brother is watching you!
And big brother will be getting a kick in his a$$ soon.
That Schultz, who I cannot imagine is a follower of HGTV or frequent visitor to IKEA.
So it must be soooo over the top that it was noticable and found to be ‘wonderful’ by the true synchophant Schultz.
Maybe Mike Holmes will take on this renovation disaster.
Do you really think there are pictures of them (O and FF) all over WH? Sounds silly. I dunno but it just sounds spoofy. Something about this story just does’nt sit right. It would’nt be easy to hide, and should be easy to prove. Why has’nt anyone ever mentioned before?
Surely after a year other visitors to WH would have mentioned it, if it was really this way?
And yeah, it would be creepy if true.
See: http://www.whitehousemuseum.org/west-wing/ww0-lobby.htm Note Michelle in her Holiday Inn Curtains dress…and the other. Doesn’t anyone here remember the Obama seal during the campaign? Humble hubris–that’s our Barry!
Wow! Thanks for that website! I just spent the last hour looking at every room in the White House; I naively didn’t know such a site existed. Fantastic place that I’ll go to again for sure.
I kind of forgot we were talking about the Obama shrine. Somebody really has to find out, as all the pics I just looked at from former presidencies show a WH of grandeur and class.
We need O’Keefe to sleuth this one!
The pictures were there when we toured the white house in September. Since I had never toured the WH before, I thought all presidents did this. We did laugh and say it didn’t take him long to change photos.
This was my first trip to DC since 911 and I also felt much disappointment in all the restrictions on visiting our capital. I really would have loved to climb the steps of the Capital as we had before 911. Yes we have to accept some restrictions but do it without taking our freedom.
Actually, visiting the White House historical site sent me down memory lane. So, I’ll share the one thing I’ve done in my life that I’ll bet almost no one else has ever done. I attended a party at the White House for 400 of Richard and Mrs. Nixon’s closest friends. I could not believe we were allowed to wander at will in any rooms on the public floors. And you could smoke then. There were ash trays in every room. I was a small town girl and too unsophisticated to be anything but entranced and impressed. So, I decided to smoke in every room. I did. In the Blue Room, in the Red Room, in the Dining Room, in the Library, in the Foyer. It’s a nice memory.
Remember the photos taken when the uninvited couple attended the White House reception for the Indian PM….there were pictures hanging on the wall in the background. I’m recalling they were black and whites. I was wondering then what they were and if they were possibly pictures of BO. Perhaps enhancing photos taken that night would show what the pictures hanging on the wall were/are.
I was in the Oval Office way back in 1990. As far as I remember, President Bush 41 had pictures of his family in the hallway – his wife, kids and grandkids – in all kinds of casual poses. I liked it because it really gave you a sense of his priorities and it made me feel instantly comfortable. He was also very warm and welcoming – a class act all the way!
I was a White House intern under President Bush (43) and there were photos of him and his presidency on the walls in the West Wing. If you were lucky enough to get a tour the guide would tell you stories about when different pictures were taken. I thought they were extraordinarily tasteful and moving – not at all a cult of personality or a shrine.
Not having seen the photos in the Obama White House I can’t judge the difference, but I wanted to tell you what I know!
They might have picked it up from friends in SF.
Saw the same thing in a SF mansion. Over every fireplace a HUGE formal family portrait. Six in one house. I kept waiting for that great piece of art to be revealed in the next room…nope…yet another portrait that consumed the room.
Strange enough, they captured the wife perfectly. What a piece of work. There is more fun to the story but it doesn’t really apply here.
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Heard back from my daughter. This is a direct quote from someone who works IN the WW when asked if there were indeed pictures of the filthy liar all over the West Wing:
“Not just the West Wing, but all over the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (where most of the President’s staff is).”
Thank you for taking the time to ask and another thanks to your daughter.
The WH is in their own little echo chamber with visuals, no less. No wonder they are immediately texting MSNBC if there is a statement on air they don’t like.
They clearly think if they control what you hear and see, they can control your thoughts.
Along with Obama’s couple of statements about how he didn’t explain the Health care bill correctly. They must think the masses write out bills in crayolas. They have too many statements out there to suggest otherwise.
The WH can keep their king of world fantasies going with dozens of pictures while the rest of us see the truth. But it sounds like even dictators would be a little creeped out by all the self-love.