Salon: The Lincoln Bedroom redecorated "in anticipation of 2nd Bush term"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2004/10/14/bush_gilded_crown/index.html

Oct. 14, 2004 | Even now, the White House is being redecorated for President Bush's second term -- or at least one room, the Lincoln Bedroom. The famous long bed will remain; so will the original Emancipation Proclamation in its glass case. But dominating the room, above the bed, will be a large carved crown from which will flow, ceiling to floor, royal purple satin drapes. The crown has been sent to be gilded with gold in anticipation of Bush's triumphant return from his campaign.

Bush began the debates with John Kerry ahead in the polls. After he grimaced his way through his talking points in the first debate, he corrected himself by maintaining strict self-control of his facial muscles in the second debate. Then after he channeled his boiling emotions into hotheaded belligerence, he recast himself for the third debate with fixed grins whatever the gray or grim subject. It was his best performance, the best he could do, and not good enough.

In the first debate, Bush defended his rigid certainty. In the second, he declined the opportunity to admit error and chose to blame others: "Now, you asked what mistakes. I made some mistakes in appointing people, but I'm not going to name them. I don't want to hurt their feelings on national TV." Perhaps he had in mind his former counterterrorism chief, Richard Clarke, who testified that the president blithely ignored terrorism before Sept. 11. But perhaps he was thinking of the director of his faith-based initiative. John DiIulio, from Princeton, the most distinguished man of ideas to join his administration, who said, after resigning, "There is no precedent in any modern White House for what is going on in this one: a complete lack of a policy apparatus. What you've got is everything -- and I mean everything -- being run by the political arm. It's the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis." Or perhaps he meant Paul O'Neill, his treasury secretary and a former corporate executive, who, after he was forced out, wrote that the president with his Cabinet was "like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people." Or perhaps Bush was thinking of his top White House economic advisor, Lawrence Lindsey, who was fired after he publicly stated that the Iraq war would cost $200 billion.

Haunted by his father's defeat, Bush has been a case study in reaction formation. He marched to Baghdad, ensured he had no enemy to his right and cut taxes regardless of the deficit. In the last debate, he sputtered about "a liberal senator from Massachusetts," repeating attack lines from his father's old campaign, coming full circle in the restoration of the gilded crown.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

1. i saw that earlier on Salon

i had to reread the part about the "crown" about 8 times to figure out if the writer was joking.


oh, he wasn't, as far as i can tell.

a crown, ladies and gentleman. a fucking crown.

[Still_Loves_John]

16. Well I don't think its THAT kind of crown...

Its like a type of moulding. Still.... Gold and purple? Feeling a little cocky there?

[janx]

19. There's moulding, but there's also a bed canopy in the shape

of a crown, gilded and attached to the ceiling above the bed.

[Minstrel Boy]

2. a crown?!?

But dominating the room, above the bed, will be a large carved crown from which will flow, ceiling to floor, royal purple satin drapes. The crown has been sent to be gilded with gold in anticipation of Bush's triumphant return from his campaign.

Didn't you guys fight a war or something a long time ago about that?

[GiovanniC]

3. We May Be Again If Shit Continues As Usual

[Renew Deal]

4. kick for lord king master Bush

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. It's good to be the King

:eyes:

[AirAmFan]

13. A GOLDEN crown, with royal purple drapery. Did they plan to rename it

the 'Bush Dynasty Room'? Forget Lincoln, he was a real party-pooper for most of the solid Red-every-election states.

[TankLV]

5. How fucking arrogant!

What a complete and utter royal wannabe.

Simply Disgusting.

God
I
Hate
These
People

[JohnnyRingo]

6. The Kerrys are gonna have some work to do

[SoCalDemocrat]

7. All Hail King Bush!

NOT!

[SlavesandBulldozers]

8. kick

:kick:

[AirAmFan]

27. kick Kick

[incapsulated]

9. Hahahaha! The *ultimate* jinx!

Any athlete or sports fan knows: Never celebrate before the actual victory. It's a JINX! :)

[keopeli]

10. But not cheerleaders. They're the eternal optimists...a la Bush*.

[realcountrymusic]

12. Oh my Gawd. It's absolutely seriously true!

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

This is rare and rich. These people are unbelievable. I hope First Lady Teresa Kerry has it redone *tastefully* the day she moves in.

RCM

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

15. Yes, it's a story you'd expect from "The Onion" or "Weekly World News"

It is one of those rare "beyond satire" pieces...

:evilgrin:

[janx]

18. I thought the Salon article was SATIRE!

Good Lord, this sounds awful! A CROWN? Purple and gold?

What perfectly horrible taste and totally anathematical decorating! The Lincoln bedroom?

[George W. Dunce]

14. I love it

In the time of record Federal deficits we can splurge and have the Lincoln bedroom redecorated. Nothing like sound fiscally responsible Republicans. I am sure the room was just in a shambles and needed to be done right now! Deficit be dammed!! Cutting corners and going without is only for the people who have to pay the bill. How fucking out of touch can you be? I think the gilded crown is very significant, ahhh the gilded age and what was that wonderful term that arose from it... what was it.....ahhh yes conspicuous consumption.

[Maiden England]

17. the boy who would be king....

[Clinton Crusader]

20. this is a fucking joke, right??

tell me, it's a joke...
:kick:

[janx]

22. No! We have some new-money Texas hicks destroying the

Lincoln Bedroom!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

21. Can you say "Napoleon Complex"?

:eyes:

[janx]

23. kick

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

24. Kick for the morning crowd n/t

[Bridget Burke]

25. And they're making Laura's dress for the Inauguration Ball...

Out of the old curtains.

[leftchick]

26. This is a joke right?

Here is the bedroom as it is today before Laura hope to fuck it up....




omg I can't take this much more....