This Resolute Desk was built from the timbers of the HMS Resolute and was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes. It is considered a national treasure and icon of the presidency.
Mr. Obama, you are not in a hut in Kenya, or public housing in Chicago.
With all due respect ... MR. OBAMA... get your damn feet off OUR desk!
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
No surprise here. Barry has already clear his disdain for things British (such as the bust of Churchill). But then, I wonder if he has even bothered to learn about the Resolute Desk.
ReplyDeleteOh, wingnuts. You so funny. Here's a photo of George W Bush with HIS feet on the Resolute Desk ...
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... and Gerald Ford. Same desk.
http://www.markcurtismedia.com/files/imagecache/540wide/files/Ford%20Feet%20on%20Desk.jpg
This will never make it past the mods, of course, but it's nice to know that someone's head is exploding over this right now.
4 more years of Obama, try to keep calm and rock on.