Why I'm glad THAT MAN will soon be leaving OUR HOUSE.

[Clio the Leo]

Forgive me this indugence......

The following shows a photograph of Bush, spending time in the Treaty Room, an office space in the second floor residence of the White House. Looks harmless enough right?


Well, as you can see, BUBBA is reared back with his DIRTY SHOES up on the table, as if he were the owner of the local used car dealership offering a deal on a used Pontiac to some poor soul in his cheaply-fitted office. So what? It's a table?

No.

That table is the Treaty Table, first used by US Grant and was the table that the peace treaty ending the Spanish-American war was signed on. Here is an illustration of President Hayes and his cabinet seated around it....


I'm sorry if I'm a furniture snob. But I have MA in historic preservation. I've cleaned furniture of much-less importance with gloves and a q-tip. That photo enrages me like you would not imagine. That table could just as easily be on display at the Smithsonian, much less still serving the current President. And yet there he sits with his filthy shoes propped up on it!

So when I saw an article this weak of President Obama saying one of the first changes he would make to the White House would be to take the plasma screen out of the Lincoln bedroom...
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/the_campaign_trailers/2008/07/obama-take-the.html

"You should read when you're in the Lincoln Bedroom! Reread the Gettysburg Address. Don't watch TV."

... I couldn't help but smile. Reassured, yet again, that we have made the right decision.