Hilary or Laura: who was better a better decorator.....

[WCGreen]

Really, unless you are getting ready to sell your house with the help of HGTV, does it really matter....

But take a look at what really under lyes the two approaches to the care of the White House....

The Clinton's did extensive renovation shored up the foundation, so to speak, and did much needed, but unglamorous, work....

The Bush approach, buy some fancy pants rugs on the floor and say "lookit me... I done dikorated that ol' White House bettern' them commie pinko Clinton's...."

But let's really look at what is going on here.....

This discussion is, after all, about the stark difference about how each of the major parties in America approaches the running of the government...

Democrats tear down a wall and repair the rot that lay beneath...

Republicans put up a patch and say they done fix 'er up....

Democrats do everything with the future in mind....

Republican's idea of the future is the news cycle...

you get the idea...

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

1. Well, Laura Did Put A Chimp In A Suit...

But you can still tell he's a chimp.

I gotta go with Hil.

[Left Is Write]

2. I thought the decor was the job of the Secretary of the Interior.

*blink blink*


</jessica simpson>

[WCGreen]

4. Who takes care of the outside.......

[Left Is Write]

13. That must be the Secretary of the Exterior.

Right?

[WCGreen]

14. Ahhhh......

[niyad]

3. very good points, indeed.

[MissB]

5. This does explain the sudden disappearance of the White House curtians

and the sudden appearance of most of Mrs. Bush's wardrobe.

[philosophie_en_rose]

6. If Hillary didn't decorate, then the last person to do it was Dubya's Mom.

Good one, Laura. :)

[WCGreen]

7. Good point.....

[NYCGirl]

8. Jacqueline Kennedy could wipe the floor with the both of them. NT

[WCGreen]

9. Yea, and she only had three years....

[NYCGirl]

10. She had INCREDIBLE style and taste.

The world was richer for those three years of Camelot.

[grasswire]

11. Laura "sexed up" the Lincoln bedroom

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48972-2004Sep24.html


When completed later this fall (2004), the nation's most famous guest room will retain the celebrated rosewood bed bought by Mary Todd Lincoln in 1861 as its centerpiece. Flamboyant rococo revival furniture by renowned cabinetmaker John Henry Belter will remain. And a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, which was signed in the room in 1863, will still be available for late-night perusal, in a glass case on a polished antique desk.

But, in the first sweeping rethink of the Lincoln Bedroom in at least three decades, the timid lemon walls, celery-green curtains and pale floral carpet are being banished in favor of a blast of Victorian bliss.

Heady hues of emerald green, golden yellow and deep purple will carpet the floor, drape the windows and envelop the massive, six-foot-tall carved headboard. Walls will be papered in a restrained palette of cream tones -- a nod to contemporary tastes -- but the pattern has been derived from the Victorian Age. Two elaborate cornices such as might have topped windows in Lincoln's day have been carved and sent to the gilders. An opulent white marble mantel was commissioned to better complement a rococo-style mirror installed last summer.

The pièce de résistance, both decoratively and symbolically, will be a carved bed canopy in the shape of a crown. It too has been sent for gilding. When affixed to the ceiling, the crown will support yards of regal purple satin over white lace, both trailing to the floor.

Gilded crowns and royal colors strike an unusual note in a house carefully stage-managed to symbolize the democracy. Neither element would have been acceptable to George Washington, who was advised to surround himself only with things that were "substantially good and majestically plain." Eagles were fine in "the President's House." Allusions to monarchy would have been anathema.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

20. that frankly sounds disgusting and

ostentatious. exactly the opposite of Lincoln.

[grasswire]

22. yep....it's the big hair syndrome

Everything is better if it's bigger and more showy, in the eyes of those with more money than class. Purple and yellow velvet! Golden crowns over the bed! Hollywood couldn't write a better farce.

[yellowdogintexas]

21. LOL I saw the prototype for that canopy in a tacky furrniture

store on Gallatin Road in Madison Tennessee back in 1970. The draperies and spread were red crushed velveteen though.

I think Tammy Wynette ended up with that bed. Or maybe that bed was an imitation of Tammy Wynette's bed. Doesn't matter it was still tacky as all get out.

[Rene]

12. I know that the Clintons had it totally repainted outside. A friend of

mine had the contract. They had to blast/sand about 50 layers of old paint off every inch and repaint it all multiple coats again. He worked on it for a couple of years.

Pickles's is an ass to snipe like this at a former First Lady.
I wouldn't let her have a chance at my back any time.

[shifting_sands]

17. Miss Laura

Yes Sir, Miss Laura is an absolutely born and bred Texas old fashioned Texas woman, smile to your face stab you in the back. I assume she is comparing Hillary's decorating style with her own and that seems a bit subjective to me and more than a bit snide cheap shot. How boring and classless these people have become.

[Tinksrival]

15. Yea but.......

My cookies are better!

[WCGreen]

16. Does that pin mean LB is a Lesbian........

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. Well, I think I would be .........

If I had to be married to that monkey.....

I mean, I would not want to let him near me.....

And being a lesbian would take care of that....:shrug:

[countmyvote4real]

18. If taste of décor had any relative credence to ways of the world…

then Martha Stewart would never have been served up and sent to prison.

However, to your point about Democrats being forward thinking; she cut bait, swallowed the bitter pill and is back as strong as ever. In the meantime the trials of the Republican Enron thieves are still being negotiated. Maybe they’re hoping to be saved by a Rapture. Of course, I have to wonder why they even think they’ve got a ticket. Maybe they embezzled a few of those as well.

Well, they can deck the halls with boughs of folly like nobody else.

[realFedUp]

23. Foundation vs. Cosmetic

It kinda says everything about those two administrations.

Getting rid of the roaches from Bush 1 took
some hard work. Getting rid of the rats in Bush
2 will take major renovation.