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Obama has a vision for the Lincoln Bedroom
latimes.com ^ | July 5, 2008 | Peter Nicholas

Posted on 07/05/2008 2:53:58 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

He's not president yet, but Barack Obama has already given some thought to White House decor.

Asked at a town hall-style meeting in Fargo, N.D., about any decorating plans for the Lincoln Bedroom, Obama described a visit to the White House after he became a U.S. senator.

"You have all these mementos of Abraham Lincoln, but you have this flat-screen TV in there," Obama told the crowd at the outdoor event.

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1 posted on 07/05/2008 2:53:58 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Here's Obama's interior decorator:


2 posted on 07/05/2008 2:59:00 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (BARACK OBAMA WILL SAVE US! HE HAS RISEN!!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Never thought I’d say it...I agree with him on the TV.


3 posted on 07/05/2008 3:00:21 PM PDT by NordP (Barry HUSSEIN Obama says he's for change...well AMERICANS LIKE DOLLAR BILLS!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I have a vision for the Lincoln Bedroom... To keep Obama out of it!


4 posted on 07/05/2008 3:00:24 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Oh yeah, saw this - the twit thinks there should only be reading allowed in the Lincoln bedroom - probably only Cone’s work.


5 posted on 07/05/2008 3:01:33 PM PDT by Baladas ((ABBHO))
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To: Free ThinkerNY

They didn’t have television when Lincoln was alive, so they should just have an old, wooden, bedside tube radio. ;-)


6 posted on 07/05/2008 3:01:52 PM PDT by r_barton
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I have a vision OF Obama:

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“People get the government they deserve.” Joseph deMaistre.

And when people become THIS freaking STUPID and inattentive to their freedoms, THIS is the candidate they deserve.

1 minute satirical Obama video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR6b-kWncI4

Hurry before some diversity loving (RIGHT!) Obamaniac at YouTube pulls it.

7 posted on 07/05/2008 3:02:01 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: NordP

I now agree with him on ONE thing. There will never be enough “things”, though, to vote for him...


8 posted on 07/05/2008 3:03:12 PM PDT by Russ (Repeal the 17th amendment)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How about a “Lawn Jockey?”


9 posted on 07/05/2008 3:03:25 PM PDT by Diggity
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To: Free ThinkerNY

There’ll be plenty of posters of Che placed throughout the White House....just like the one you can find in his Houston campaign office.


10 posted on 07/05/2008 3:03:33 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The problem with the rat race is,even if you win you're still a rat.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I’d like to hear Bill Clinton’s thoughts on Obama’s idea.


11 posted on 07/05/2008 3:04:07 PM PDT by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Well, I agree with Obama—probably for the first time. We don’t have TVs in any of our bedrooms, and I fail to see why they should have them in the guest bedrooms of the White House.

A few books would be just fine.


12 posted on 07/05/2008 3:04:35 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"You should read when you're in the Lincoln Bedroom! Reread the Gettysburg Address. Don't watch TV."

He should lecture about this to the Clintonista scumbags from Hollyweird - as I recall they were more interested in jumping up and down on the bed in the Lincoln Bedroom (Markie Post and Linda Thomason?) than in re-reading and discussing the Gettysburg Address.
13 posted on 07/05/2008 3:05:20 PM PDT by Enchante (OBAMA: "That's not the Wesley Clark I knew!")
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To: NordP

Ahhhhhhh..........yes. But...is he telling the TRUTH?


14 posted on 07/05/2008 3:06:11 PM PDT by Brad's Gramma (Typical Whitey Gramma just like Obamies!)
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To: Enchante; All

OOOPS, I never should have said “re-reading” the Gettysburg Address when referring to Clintonista hacks from Hollyweird — I doubt that many of them have ever read it once.


15 posted on 07/05/2008 3:06:50 PM PDT by Enchante (OBAMA: "That's not the Wesley Clark I knew!")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Waht’s the Democrat going rate for he Lincoln Bedroom? $50,000 per night?

Better keep teh flat screen Hussein — the people bribing you will want it that way.


16 posted on 07/05/2008 3:08:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: peggybac

17 posted on 07/05/2008 3:08:50 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Hate to admit it but I agree with him on this. The White House is a special, historic place. I think some care has to be taken with things like the Lincoln Bedroom. If someone’s staying over, they can do without a TV for a few nights. How often do you get to soak in the ambience of the Lincoln Bedroom and all the history there? Sitting there with the remote, watching Leno? Hmmm, not quite what I envision.


18 posted on 07/05/2008 3:09:08 PM PDT by saquin
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To: peggybac
I’d like to hear Bill Clinton’s thoughts on Obama’s idea.

One thing is certain: The Slickster had a very different "vision" for that bedroom.

19 posted on 07/05/2008 3:10:15 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Diogenesis

That picture is Exhibit A for how the Clintons and their friends treated the White House. And don’t even get me started on what Bill did in and around the Oval Office.


20 posted on 07/05/2008 3:10:46 PM PDT by saquin
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To: Cicero

Well, maybe the twit seems arrogant when he tries to re-decorate the WH when he hasn’t even won the nomination of his own party yet, ya think?


21 posted on 07/05/2008 3:10:53 PM PDT by Baladas ((ABBHO))
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To: NordP
"Never thought I’d say it...I agree with him on the TV."

He's probably lying about the TV being in the room.

22 posted on 07/05/2008 3:13:28 PM PDT by mass55th
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To: Free ThinkerNY


23 posted on 07/05/2008 3:16:31 PM PDT by vietvet67
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To: saquin

You actually believe him?


24 posted on 07/05/2008 3:16:36 PM PDT by mass55th
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The f**king arrogance is unbelievable. We MUST unite to defeat this pretender and his vile wife.


25 posted on 07/05/2008 3:18:15 PM PDT by montag813
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To: NordP; All

I can agree with him on the TV also, but from what I’ve heard, Bill Clinton and Babs Streisand did NOT read in the Lincoln bedroom.


26 posted on 07/05/2008 3:18:40 PM PDT by no dems (B. Hussein is an Obamanation)
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To: montag813
The f**king arrogance is unbelievable. We MUST unite to defeat this pretender and his vile wife.

YES !!!
27 posted on 07/05/2008 3:19:39 PM PDT by no dems (B. Hussein is an Obamanation)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

28 posted on 07/05/2008 3:21:03 PM PDT by r_barton
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Does the idiot think it was Lincoln’s bedroom?

There are some chairs used by Lincoln’s cabinet, a desk he used at the Soldier’s Home, and a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, but not a lot of real “Lincoln memorabilia”. The room was decorated in Victorian style by the Trumans.

A flat screen TV is relatively unobtrusive and no problem in a room that had little to do with Lincoln other than being part of his office suite.


29 posted on 07/05/2008 3:22:01 PM PDT by mak5
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To: r_barton
They didn’t have television when Lincoln was alive, so they should just have an old, wooden, bedside tube radio.

Ummm... when was electricity invented? And the radio?

30 posted on 07/05/2008 3:22:11 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: mass55th
You actually believe him?

I'm saying I agree with what he said. Do I believe he said it? Yes. It's quoted. Do I believe he's lying? I have no idea. But why? It was basically a light question at a town meeting and he answered it. I don't think it was some elaborate lie he's had in his hip pocket just waiting for someone to ask him about redecoration of the Lincoln Bedroom.

31 posted on 07/05/2008 3:23:13 PM PDT by saquin
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To: Enchante

Reread the Gettysburg Address? Does he realize how short that speech is? You could read it twenty times in ten minutes.


32 posted on 07/05/2008 3:23:30 PM PDT by mak5
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To: Cobra64

When did they invent the smilie? You missed it in my original message.


33 posted on 07/05/2008 3:27:19 PM PDT by r_barton
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To: mak5

273 words, IIRC

It doesn’t take long to read it, but it is worth discussing at length - fwiw, I’m reading a good biography of Lincoln right now, the one by David Herbert Donald. I recommend it highly.


34 posted on 07/05/2008 3:27:36 PM PDT by Enchante (OBAMA: "That's not the Wesley Clark I knew!")
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To: Diggity
How about a “Lawn Jockey?”

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35 posted on 07/05/2008 3:27:40 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA - CHANGE YOU CAN COUNT ON, BUT DON'T WANT

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA


NOBAMA '08 SIGHTED IN IDAHO, JULY 2008

36 posted on 07/05/2008 3:28:13 PM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: Free ThinkerNY
By the time the Osamas are done with the Lincoln Bedroom it will look like this.


37 posted on 07/05/2008 3:28:30 PM PDT by Abbeville Conservative (Just a bitter South Carolinian clinging to my religion and guns.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
OBAMA SAYS IT IS SO SO IT MUST BE.....
38 posted on 07/05/2008 3:29:35 PM PDT by Global2010 (OKIE DOKIE)
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To: r_barton
When did they invent the smilie? You missed it in my original message.

Oh. Photobucket

39 posted on 07/05/2008 3:30:36 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Enchante

So, does anyone know whatever happened to Markie Post? Haven’t seen that name or face since the court house TV show went off the air.


40 posted on 07/05/2008 3:30:36 PM PDT by CdMGuy
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To: r_barton

ha ha, well radio hadn’t been invented yet either - but they did have the telegraph, so maybe the Lincoln Bedroom should have a vintage telegraph machine click-clacking away..... not that Lincoln or any politicians would have had personal use of a telegraph machine, they had clerks to send and receive the messages, but it might be fun to have guests in the Lincoln Bedroom experience the forms of communication available in that era!


41 posted on 07/05/2008 3:30:50 PM PDT by Enchante (OBAMA: "That's not the Wesley Clark I knew!")
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Hey, you - - Yobama.....


42 posted on 07/05/2008 3:31:02 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.)
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To: NordP

I stayed at a hotel in the deco of the Metro Goldywn Era of the 40’s my floor apporpriate to my visit was Musicals of the 30s/40s and lovely jazz of the day playing in the room.

With a flat screen tv too.
Never turned the thing on as I did not want to ruin the mood of respite with media.....untill the morning I left weather/traffic for my trip home.

So I say leave it to the resident of the room to on/off the tv.

And I totally respect the choice those who choose not to have a tv in there home but the White House would have been his dwelling if he had won the election.


43 posted on 07/05/2008 3:34:32 PM PDT by Global2010 (OKIE DOKIE)
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To: saquin
He insinuated to a group of his followers, that there was a TV in the Lincoln Bedroom. Given his tendency to lie, twist the truth, flip-flop, plagiarize, and be a down-right phony, I'll take what he says with a grain a salt. Unfortunately, there are a lot of gullible people out there who will believe him.

Given the historical nature of the room (Lincoln's Cabinet Room), I highly doubt that President and Mrs. Bush had a flat-screen TV installed permanently in the room as Obama wants folks to believe. Besides the history of the room, the bed is special too. Although Lincoln never slept in it himself, it is the bed his son Willie died in.

An elaborate lie he had in his hip pocket? Yeah, we're talking about Barack Hussein Obama here, not Art Linkletter.

44 posted on 07/05/2008 3:40:33 PM PDT by mass55th
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To: mak5
"Does he realize how short that speech is? You could read it twenty times in ten minutes."

He probably wouldn't be able to memorize it and say it without the use of a teleprompter.

45 posted on 07/05/2008 3:43:23 PM PDT by mass55th
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"I thought to myself, 'Now, who stays in the Lincoln Bedroom and watches [ESPN's] 'Sports Center'? You've got your clicker. . . . That didn't seem to me to be appropriate. So I might take out the TV...

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And replace it with my Big Bro screen.

46 posted on 07/05/2008 3:45:25 PM PDT by taraytarah
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To: Free ThinkerNY

what tacky furniture!

i like danish, swedish and finnish modern.


47 posted on 07/05/2008 3:51:52 PM PDT by ken21 ( people die + you never hear from them again.)
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To: NordP
Never thought I’d say it...I agree with him on the TV.

Me too. Perhaps President McCain will take his redecorating tips under advisement.

48 posted on 07/05/2008 3:52:34 PM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin '36 Olympics for murdering regimes Beijing '08)
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To: Cicero

I agree. A TV in the Lincoln Bedroom sort of CHEAPENS the history of the room wouldn’t you say?


49 posted on 07/05/2008 3:53:08 PM PDT by cubreporter
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To: montag813

Why do you call him arrogant? If he wins the general election the White House will be his home for the next four years. If he wants to remove a TV from a famous location as the Lincoln Bedroom why do you view that as arrogance? I move things around my house because I am living here. There’s nothing arrogant about it. And...why do you bring Mrs. Obama into it anyway?


50 posted on 07/05/2008 3:57:39 PM PDT by cubreporter
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