Suhail Khan, a former Bush administration political appointee at the Department of Transportation and a board member of the American Conservative Union (the people that put on CPAC), takes to the Daily Caller today to admonish President Barack Obama for having the audacity to sit "with his feet up on the Resolute Desk." It seems that Khan has found out about this dastardly act through an e-mail, which shows the president talking to members of his senior staff and kicking back. Khan writes:
Many preceding presidents wouldn't go as far as to even enter the Oval Office without a suit and tie, much less use this very important and public office in an informal or casual manner. And yet, while conferring with his senior aides in the Oval Office, President Obama obviously feels it appropriate enough to prop-up his feet on the historically significant nineteenth-century Resolute Desk. Perhaps its the age in which we live, or a new time of informality, but I'm sure I'm not alone in being just a bit uneasy with such a disregard for the highest American office, however small or insignificant the gesture may be. In the grand scheme of things, putting one's feet up on White House furniture isn't akin to the high crimes and misdemeanors of say Watergate or even President Clinton's antics with interns and the like, but President Obama's callous gesture demonstrates a significant lapse of respect for our highest office.
There's only one problem with Khan's analysis:
