Susnot

The Usual Randomness

The White House

Today I took a tour of the White House. Being that it is now by invitation only and it took my company a year and a half to obtain the invite, and the fact that I'd never been there before, I wanted to seize the opportunity!

I have to say, it really is a very lovely house. It's very well furnished. Everything is clearly an antique, well made, and expensive. Paintings of Presidents and their First Ladies from history books I remember are all over the walls. I can at last say, I have been to the White House.

I had no ideas there were paintings of First Ladies. The first picture you see on the tour is Hilary Clinton. It made me wonder why she deserved that distinction. Until you go upstairs and you see the room where they keep the paintings of all the recent first ladies... and then you wonder "why is Hilary in the basement?" Poor Hilary, do they know she has been "shunned" in that way? I mean, I'm not exactly nuts about George W. Bush, but I am still willing to respect the fact that he is currently the President. Is Hilary not a more recent first lady than Jackie O and Lady Bird Johnson? Why doesn't she get to be in the fancy room with the rest of them?

posted by Susnot @ 1:34 PM