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Originally Posted by deepimpact2
In fact I did NOT say that Americans CANNOT visit the White House. I said they BARELY can visit.S o he did not show that my statement was not accurate. He showed that he did not properly read and comprehend the sentence. There is a difference.
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You said Americans "can barely
get near the White House, let alone even VISIT it." The clear implication is that while we can "barely get near" the White House, it is next-to-impossible to visit it. I'll take your word as to what you meant, but what you said doesn't quite match up with what you meant. So apparently, it's not that KSig RC can't read and comprehend what you wrote; it's that you had some trouble writing in such a way as to convey what you actually meant.
And to be honest, I think you're way overstating the hoops that have to be jumped through to visit the White House. Having jumped through those hoops not that long ago, I can assure you it's really not
that hard at all. You pretty much just call your Representative far enough in advance, let him or her know when you want to come, provide some basic background information and that's about it. Took one phone call.
As for whether the china "belongs to us" or not, it belongs to us all collectively, just like any other public property does.
As for the Obamas moving in, they receive a budget of $100,000 in public funds for redecorating. (Not that much in the grand scheme of things.) Anything spent beyond that will come from a foundation like the White House Historical Association (the foundation that paid for the new china).
I'm just still not seeing the big deal -- and as KSigKid says, I'm
not a Bush supporter. I'm counting the minutes until he moves out of the White House. I just never saw the point of Bush-bashing purely for the sake of Bush-bashing either.
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