Hypocrisy->President Takes Wife To NYC On Tax-Payer's Dime

NY TIMES/THE LID ^ | 5/31/09 | The Lid

[Shellybenoit]

Remember that little speech the President made in Elkhart Indiana in February. The one where he said:

But, you know, you are not going to be able to give out these big bonuses until you pay taxpayers back. You can’t get corporate jets. You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers’ dime. There’s got to be some accountability and some responsibility, and that’s something that I intend to impose as president of the United States.

This afternoon that same President took his wife on the "Corporate" Jet (Airforce One) and Helicopter, along with the Secret Service, his "corporately paid body guards" and flew to New York for dinner and a Broadway Play.

[television is just wrong]

everything is about them. she has a 24/7 cosmetologist on call, he probably has the equivalent because they are both so ugly on the inside, they need all the help they can get.

[South40]

It costs about $68,000 an hour to operate Air Force One.

Do the math.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Does anyone remember President Bush pulling anything like this? It’s practically embezzlement.

[PeanutbutterandJellybean]

Do as I say... not as I do.

[voteNRA]

Hypocrisy aside, you’ve gotta admit you would do the same thing if given the chance ... at least I would :)

[hoosiermama]

frpm another thread: They did not take airforce 1, but a smaller plane. Regardless with security etc the Saturday Night Jive cost around amillion dollars of the tax payers money.....Bill Em Danno!

[South40]

You would put other people further in debt just for a night on the town? I know I wouldn’t.

[South40]

Whichever plane he took, he spent taxpayer dollars that we didn’t have and further exposed himself as a hypocrite in the process. What a loser.

[voteNRA]

You would put other people further in debt just for a night on the town? I know I wouldn’t.

When you say it like that it doesn't sound so cool.

Weekly cocktail parties serving Waygu beef - NO

One evening - Maybe

[hoosiermama]

loser? Why have you seen them strutting across the sidewalk .....It’s Saturday Night Jive! he coo man! She got her new duud on and they’re lookin fine. ;~)

[South40]

When you say it like that it doesn't sound so cool.

Actually, I should have put it this way...

You would put other people further in debt and make a complete fool of yourself by showing your hypocrisy just for a night on the town? I know I wouldn’t.

:-)

[PugetSoundSoldier]

[eclectic]

This is because Obama is more equal than the rest of us.

[voteNRA]

Fine, but I have to admit that I did almost the same thing tonight when I took my wife out to dinner.

Like Zero, we took my company car, although mine is an Explorer not AF-1.

:)

[April Lexington]

Hypocrisy aside, you’ve gotta admit you would do the same thing if given the chance ... at least I would :)

This is why the USA is doomed. Everyone seems to want to put self interest above National interest. We should burn that painting of Washington returning his commission... Why are we any better than the whores in Washington????

[South40]

I take the company car everywhere I go.

But I own the company. :-)

[Anti-Kenyan]

I encourage him to fly more often. It is inherently dangerous......

[South40]

I encourage him to fly more often. It is inherently dangerous......

Certainly Ron Brown would agree...if he could.

[voteNRA]

Like the one likes to say "he won!" I guess that's like he "owns us".

Except for when things don't look so good, then he took on a lease and the old owner rode a little rough.

Or something like that :)