I am curious--will the White House be swept for bugging devices

[Horse with no Name]

and other "left behinds"? I hope someone makes sure that georgie didn't shit in the plants or anything.

[John Q. Citizen]

1. I figure they will leave them and use them to dis-info whoever is listening.

[Vanje]

10. Yes! yes. Leave them in one room

where you talk about Plan X, parte el C. and try not to give it away by laughing.

[Zoigal]

2. I've been wondering about that too...

[EFerrari]

3. That's a very interesting question.

Wouldn't be easier to just turn the dude with the headphones? :silly:

[Lagomorph]

4. From what I gather...

it's supposed to be bugged. I'm sure the security system is state-of-the-art. If there's a bug in there, the Secret Service knows about it.

[Bolo Boffin]

5. I understand that crews are working right now, changing the carpets, the drapes, everything.

There will be no sign of the Bushes or their actual furnishings left when the Obamas enter, and that's the way it is for all Presidents in anticipated handovers.

[RB TexLa]

6. Actually the office is pretty much staying the same, rug and all

[Bolo Boffin]

8. I don't think they change the style, but everything is physically changed.

Redecorations and renovations come later.

[Horse with no Name]

7. That's good to know that the vomit stained carpeting will be gone

It would be awkward for the kids to trip over bush's drunken passed out body when they were moving in.

[Bolo Boffin]

9. The ground-in pretzels, the beer stains...

[kentuck]

11. if they were smart...

they would.

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12. ha! a "sopranos" fan,,, i love it. n/t

[LaPera]

13. Have no fear...they are listening, then blackmailing, as they have been for 8 years....

Just look at how Bush & the republicans did business from day one...eavesdropping, domestically spying, (information is power) they listened to (all) democrats phone calls. (We all have skeletons. No?) Now, you capitalize on it. Blackmail? But of course, no different, than how the dress wearing republican bullshit self proclaimed "moralist" J. Edgar Hoover did his biz...

You must admit the paranoid Hoover was the master of how to use blackmail against "opponents"...No one was allowed to make a move unless J. Edgar felt secure in his position as Director...nothing has changed...And BushCo... does anyone trust them to have done anything differently...the republicans will be listening & laughing, how they are controlling, sorry to say.......They, (the corporation republicans) do NOT want to see ANY progressive progression by especially by Obama or anyone else.

Yes, the republicans are listening! (How else can they hope for their elitist corporatism to come back).