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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: Ben on January 11, 2017, 11:32:11 PM
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More of Obama's policies being reversed. =D
Story didn't mention what (if anything) the Churchill bust is replacing. Churchill was removed by Obama to make room for MLK.
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/01/11/report-trump-personally-asked-for-winston-churchills-bust-to-be-returned-to-oval-office/
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Well, if we needed proof positive that the man is a racist, there it is...
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Well, if we needed proof positive that the man is a racist, there it is...
Obama?
Agreed.
And apparently xenophobic, as well. Can't have a bust of a furriner in the Oval Office.
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But Sir Winston is/was a US citizen.
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But Sir Winston is/was a US citizen.
Hmmm, I knew his mother was a US citizen, but always though he was only a British Subject. (IIRC, the USS Winston Churchill being the only US warship to be named in honor of a non-US citizen.) Turns out I was wrong, he (and one of only two people, ever, sorta kinda) was given an Honorary US Citizenship:
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/the-life-of-churchill/senior-statesman/churchill-honored-with-us-citizenship
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That always bugged the crap out of me and I'm glad it's coming back.
IMHO, a president can add to the collection of artifacts in the White House, but should never remove them. It's one of those things where the individuals opinion should not come into play because it's a matter of historical importance rather than personal preferences or aesthetics.
At most, they can move things to a dusty out of the way corner if they don't want to look at it.
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Churchill Back in the White House
Without my glasses on I read that as "Cthulhu back in the White House".
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^^^^ Would be an improvement.
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Without my glasses on I read that as "Cthulhu back in the White House".
I KNEW I'd seen Michelle somewhere before....
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that is a terrible bust of him though
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that is a terrible bust of him though
The one in the article is a different bust that Congress had installed in the Capitol as a reaction to Obama moving the other one out of the White House.
This is actual bust (http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=49222)...which isn't much better, I guess.
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This is actual bust (http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=49222)...which isn't much better, I guess.
Maybe they should have had him pose for it before his death.
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Maybe they should have had him pose for it before his death.
Even the bust of DEAD Churchill must have made Obama feel inadequate :D
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That always bugged the crap out of me and I'm glad it's coming back.
IMHO, a president can add to the collection of artifacts in the White House, but should never remove them. It's one of those things where the individuals opinion should not come into play because it's a matter of historical importance rather than personal preferences or aesthetics.
At most, they can move things to a dusty out of the way corner if they don't want to look at it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tell that to the self-righteous racist demagogue who's in residence for another week.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tell that to the self-righteous racist demagogue who's in residence for another week.
I never saw a logical (or any) explanation of why Churchill had to go, vs as Liz said, just getting moved to a corner. I have no problem with an MLK monument in the oval office - it seems sensible to have one. I just don't see any reason for having to move Churchill (other than spite of course). Especially since it was given as a gift from our strongest ally.
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I never saw a logical (or any) explanation of why Churchill had to go, vs as Liz said, just getting moved to a corner. I have no problem with an MLK monument in the oval office - it seems sensible to have one. I just don't see any reason for having to move Churchill (other than spite of course). Especially since it was given as a gift from our strongest ally.
Obama (like his father) was very much a anti-British, anti-colonialist. All anyone had to do was read his book (Dreams of My Father) to know that.
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Obama (like his father) was very much a anti-British, anti-colonialist. All anyone had to do was read his book (Dreams of My Father) to know that.
It doesn't matter. The residents of the White House are curators, not a *expletive deleted*ing redesign team.
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Well, it was just a furnished apartment to them.
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Well, it was just a furnished apartment to them.
Will they get their damage deposit back? >:D