If you watched the President's Oval Office address last night (some of us saw it while phone banking at the Lincoln Park office), you'll of course have noticed it was redecorated. Okay, maybe you missed it. NPR did not.
I don't know if Nate Berkus (Oprah's interior designer) helped out here, but it seems, and I speak not solely out of partisanship, a little unpresidential. Interestingly, NPR staffers seem to have not liked it all that much at first blush either. Of course, I'm Republican, but I still like a nice Chateauneuf-du-pape (though Grüner Veltliner might be my new favorite), so perhaps that qualifies me to say that the new look, particularly the furniture, is all wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. The wallpaper, however, isn't bad.
But I can't WAIT to see what the next occupant chooses. And, let's not forget the reason why there even needed to be an Oval Office address. Thank you to the amazingly brave troops who served so honorably in Iraq and took out a dictator who killed Iraqis without thought, was a threat to the region, ignored multiple UN Resolutions, and would have given aid and harbor to Al Qaeda (and possibly did) had he the opportunity. And let's not forget either that the withdrawal from Iraq we're seeing now was the Bush/Petraeus plan, not Obama's. But kudos to Obama for sticking with it.
