Posted on 07/30/2009 9:24:07 AM PDT by wrrock
Watch Video, http://butasforme.com/2009/07/30/let-them-eat-cupcakes/
"Let them eat cake." The quote, as attributed to Marie Antoinette, was claimed to have been uttered during one of the famines that occurred in France during the reign of her husband Louis XVI. Upon being alerted that the people were suffering due to widespread bread shortages, she is said to have replied, "Then let them eat brioche."
This type of callousness on the part of the monarchy has often been referred to in writings about the possible factors that led to the French Revolution. English biographer and author of Marie Antoinette: The Journey, Antonia Fraser, states Antoinette never made the quote:
"[Let them eat cake] was said 100 years before her by Marie-Thérèse, the wife of Louis XIV.
It was a callous and ignorant statement and she, Marie Antoinette, was neither."
Apparently, in a time of deep ression, Barack Obama's cupcake quip renders himself both.
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Actually the Chicago WalMarts time the delivery of snacks such as Oreos to coincide with the replenishment of the LINK card (food stamps).
They won’t allow any Walmarts in Chicago. Costco maybe...
I don’t blame Wal-MArt. If they don’t get their oreos from Wal-Mart, they will just get them somewhere else.
This guy Obama is allegedly a politician. One might think he’d think before making some of his comments. Perhaps been hangin’ with Joe “The Gaffe” Biden too long.
Well, will I at least be able to purchase a Red Velvet Cupcake?/Just Asking - seoul62.......
I remembered that but they place them in the Chicago metropolitan area near low income people, sorry for missing that detail.
Or maybe it’s the real him coming out.
Does a carrot cupcake count as a vegetable?
The whole “let them eat cake” thing has been subverted, Cake in the 1700’s meant Coal.
“Or maybe it’s the real him coming out.”
I question the word “maybe”. ;)
What the hell is he talking about- tax cuts? Who got those?
I think you’re right.
I heard it was the scrapings from the ovens.
At 24 in the Video, watch this sob speak with toungue in cheek, what a liar. Obama poop.
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