Obama's Oval Office Is Beige And Could Have Been Green

New York Times Everyone in the red state is piling on the redesign of the oval office, complaining it is not patriotic enough, even though George Bush took Bill Clinton's red, white and blue garish extravaganza and turned it into a muted southern living room (and lost the red, white and blue) showing more taste than patriotism. But since that was Bush and this is Obama, they now say "Those neutral colors do not connote honor, respect, awe, for the office or nation." The designers are also piling on, calling it boring and beige. Arianna Huffington calls it "The Audacity of Taupe." Blair Kamin says "I'd say we should all be glad that our President never followed his inclination to be an architect. " Since the President gets criticized for everything from the cut of his jeans to the choice of his vacation spots and can't satisfy anyone, we might as well pile on and point out that it could have been greener as well as beige.... Read the full story on TreeHugger