Bush Weaves Rug Story Into Many an Occasion-

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/06/AR2006030601446.html?referrer=email

Bush Weaves Rug Story Into Many an Occasion
President Uses His Oval Office Floor Covering as a Metaphor for Optimism and Leadership

By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 7, 2006; A15

Nothing says power like the Oval Office. The paintings of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. The bust of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The desk used by both Roosevelts.

And then there's the rug. Don't forget the rug. President Bush never does.

For whatever reason, Bush seems fixated on his rug. Virtually all visitors to the Oval Office find him regaling them about how it was chosen and what it represents. Turns out, he always says, the first decision any president makes is what carpet he wants in his office. As a take-charge leader, he then explains, he of course made a command decision -- he delegated the decision to Laura Bush, who chose a yellow sunbeam design.

Elizabeth Vargas, the ABC News anchor, was the latest to get the treatment. She went by last week to interview Bush before his trip to Afghanistan, India and Pakistan. Sure enough, she wasn't in the room but a minute or two before he started telling her about the carpet.

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1. --Metaphor for Optimism and Leadership---

President Uses His Oval Office Floor Covering as a Metaphor for Optimism and Leadership

[rodeodance]

2. bush to laura (designer)--But make it say 'optimistic person.' "

..Bush went on: "The interesting thing about this rug and why I like it in here is 'cause I told Laura one thing. I said, 'Look, I can't pick the colors and all that. But make it say 'optimistic person.' "

[peekaloo]

3. it really ties the room together.

Dude.

:-)

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

5. "All the dude wanted, was his rug back."

You mix a mean Caucasian, Jackie!
:hi:

[kenny blankenship]

6. So that leaves the question: who peed on his fucking rug?

It was a valued furnishing.

[gatorboy]

7. Now there's a rug I could piss on!

And the dude would abide. :P

[TAPat]

4. Why the rug?

Shouldn't he be more proud of his successes in the War on Terra, or prisoner's rights issues, or Medicare, or No Child Left Behind, or... :)
No, his proudest accomplishment is a rug that his wife designed!

[liberal N proud]

8. Maybe the rug is the only thing he has done successfully?

Everything else he touches falls to shit.
The rug has not done that to him... YET!

[Caoimhe]

9. Someone should ask how much that F'ing rug cost!

Since we are the ones who paid for the stupid thing.

[Mind_your_head]

10. This part sounds about right.....

<snip>
"When you're giving a tour of the Oval Office, you're trying to point to things that emphasize what you're trying to do"
<snip>

So, is the shrub trying to say that walking all over his rug is symbolic of him walking all over the constitution and the good people of the USA? :shrug: That's the symbiology that I get from this anyway.

Picture of "the rug"

[July]

12. Maybe Laura and George were thinking "halo" or "Sun King." nt

[Mind_your_head]

15. Yes....I thought of that too

It does seem to be a theme of theirs.

[gratuitous]

"Dad lets me drive slow on the driveway"

President Rainman, telling and re-telling the same boring story.

[bunkerbuster1]

16. "I'm an excellent rug-specifier."

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

11. So what I got from that article is that

the president of the United States is going around, practically grabbing everybody by the shirt collar, obsessing about his rug and how optimistic he is, while they slowly back away, saying things like, "Yes! Optimistic! Leadership!"

We know he is as crazy as a March hare, but I can't figure out if the Washington Post is as crazy as he is too, or are they just trying to drive all of US crazy? The whole thing reads like some kind of bizarre cry for help from the Washington Post!

[acmejack]

13. It looks like it marks the shortest routes to the exits

That is a reason to have hope alright. And i think that is an ugly rug, or not in my office (Dude!)

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

14. Also notice their link to Jeff Gannon's blog on page 2 of the article

where he has this to say:

"Bush Obsessed With Oval Office Rug

The Washington Post took a day off from printing national security secrets on its front page to run a story about President Bush's apparent fixation with the rug in the Oval Office. White House correspondent Peter Baker cites numerous instances of Bush bringing up how Laura Bush designed the carpet that covers the floor in his West Wing office.

I think Bush wants everyone to know that the Oval Office is different in every way from its previous occupant - all the way down to the rug that Monica Lewinsky crawled around on her hands and knees while she was performing oral sex on Bill Clinton."

Yeah, like anyone would even want to give Bush a blow job.

[madrchsod]

17. well is jeffy is jealous?

i wonder where he was crawling around those days and nights? no one will say why he was there now will they? come on jeffy, who were -you- seeing?

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

19. Why doesn't the Washington Post ask the Jimmy-Jeff these questions

since they are so chummy with him now?

[Skidmore]

18. That rug lying on the floor is a metaphor for his idea of what it

means to be a leader. You lie like a rug and try to be pretty about it.