Posted on 03/23/2008 11:55:12 AM PDT by reagandissiple
Barack Obama's campaign tossed around nearly $600 at Tiffany's last month - for a trinket that remains a secret.
Obama's team tapped his flush campaign bank account to pay the $572.25 tab at the famed jeweler last month, recently released federal fund-raising records show.
When asked about the curious expenditure, campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki said, "That was mistakenly charged to a campaign credit card and the money has been refunded to the campaign."
Psaki insisted that the senator did not make the purchase himself but she refused to say whether the gift was in any way connected to him or his family.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
“Obama girl” probably just needed her watch fixed, lol
No.
Mack Daddy.
Well, we know that it wasn’t for a flag lapel pin.
$572.25 doesn’t buy all that much at Tiffany’s.
i was just thinking the same thing myself.
Maybe a swizzle stick?
LOL, maybe.
Maybe a professional cleaning.
Now people suddenly care that Obama used $600 to buy jewelry for his wife (if it's even true)? In general, how much campaign money (for all candidates) goes to buy the staff steak dinners, fine wines, and expensive hotel stays? I'm not condoning it, I just find it interesting that people suddenly care.
Maybe they are running the same search program as FR’s.
There are some items under that amount; I know, because at Christmas I bought a necklace from there for for someone special. :)
Not even a decent breakfast.
At what point is Free Republic going to be renamed Obama Republic? When will there be the multiple postings about Obama passing gas or reports of the number of sheets of toilet paper he uses?
-for
Nicely done!
I have to ask: what is a "dissiple"? :)
I got big, big points for that. Heh heh.
Go tell that to the people who have donated 100, 200,
$500 to his campaign, without knowing their money was probably spent in earrings.
this is $190
Oh hell....don’t you racist white fools realize you can never pay enough reparations or kiss enough XXX to gain forgiveness for something that happened to the rabble rouser’s ancestors - done to them by their own ancestors and folks who have NO CONNECTION to your or your family?< /sarcasm>
Just shut-up and keep pretending they and their leaders will ever become simply AMERICANS.
My sympathies remain with the blacks who have MADE the connection with America - and have become AMERICANS in every sense of the word and spirit....
The crime is for them to be diminished in any way by the fallout sure to come from the Rev. Wrights and other preachers of “Black Liberation Theology”.
I shudder to think they may have been a smaller minority that I had previously believed them to be.....
Very sad indeed.
If that was the total (inc. tax) there are only a couple things it could have been. Anyone know the tax rate and were it was charged? Bet i could find the item in a few minutes if you did.
SWEET! You da' man!
still living off those points i betcha ; )
PS Don't tell my husband I'm da man...it's my little secret, k?
...$600 for a “change” purse? How fiscally responsible of a liberal!!!
>>$572.25 doesn’t buy all that much at Tiffany’s.<<
It really doesn’t. Plus they reported it.
OOPS!
Mother Slim always said I wasn’t the brightest child. ;)
Well, yes, but as you know... “points” have a limited shelf life. :)
Hmmm...his ancestors were never slaves. His dad was from Kenya, most slaves came to North America from west Africa.
Don’t fret— Mothers Day is around the corner, another opportunity for....scoring... points : )
I’m sure mother slim loved you just the same as all the other little slims....or close.
I couldn't agree more. They will be painted with the same broad brush that Obama has painted white Americans.
My point...it seems that Obama postings are becoming excessive and obsessive on this site.
When Obama is no longer a candidate for President, then we’ll no longer care.
Just skip the threads and don’t click on them.
Sterling silver telephone dialers, for anyone old enough to remember telephone dials.
OK, I have that song stuck in my head now.
No, not Moon River, which wouldn't be bad....the more annoying one from the mid 90s.
;-)
Obama's Earmarks: $1 Million for Wife's Hospital
Michelle Obama's salary at UC Hospitals when her husband won the US Senate seat was $121,000. Within weeks of his swearing in, the salary went to over $320,000. She's now VP for Community Affairs.
So did the taxpayers end up paying for Michelle's pay raise for Barack's six year term?
http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2008/03/michelle_obamas_hospital.html
Michelle Obama, the Princeton graduate who went to Harvard Law School before joining the mega corporate law firm Sidley & Austin, told an audience of working mothers at a daycare center in Zanesville, Ohio: College isn't worth it and you should stay out of corporate America. Better if they stay in their place, back in "the community.""We left corporate America, which is a lot of what we're asking young people to do. Don't go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers that we need, and we're encouraging our young people to do that. But if you make that choice, as we did, to move out of the money-making industry into the helping industry, then your salaries respond."
According to the U.S. Census, Muskingum County, where Zanesville is located, had a median household income of $37,192 in 2004, below both the Ohio and national averages. Just 12.2 percent of adults in the county have a bachelor's degree or higher, also well below the state and national averages. About 20 percent don't have a high school degree.
Moreover, as the Asia Times points out:
" But she did not leave corporate America. She did leave the corporate law firm that hired her out of Harvard Law School, but there is no reason to believe that idealism drove that decision. The major law firms make partners out of a fifth of their new hires, who slave for years for the opportunity. Michelle Obama was not partner material for a top firm. She took more than a year to pass the Illinois Bar Examination, a substandard result, and - as her thesis makes clear - lacked the command of written English required for legal success. Her skills were better suited to the hospital position she eventually filled. Not only did she sell out, but she sold out for mediocre results."
"But it was not only Senator Obama's writing income, it was Michelle's $200,000 salary increase and corporate directorships following his election to the US Senate that made the family prosperous. And it wasn't just piano lessons and summer camp, but a mansion in the Chicago suburb that represented an adequate price for Michelle's soul."
The Asia Times was referring to Michelle Obama's Princeton senior thesis - the one that the Obama campaign initially suppressed, and Michelle initially claimed she could not recall the contents of.
In it Michelle Obama expresses her bitterness to white America, and praises the 'black separatists." All of this coupled with Michelle Obama's recent admission that she was not really proud to be an American (at least until her husband ran for president and became the Democratic frontrunner) casts doubt on whether this power couple is ready for prime time - let alone the White House.
Hey, CD!
HAPPY EASTER TO YOU AND YOURS!
callisto
How wownderful it would be to block certain key words. Eliminating the key word “Obama” would remove about 40% of all the recent FR threads.
Govnernment edcation pais.
On second thought, let's hope it's NOT for his wife...which would be more plausible - cover the expenditure from her by going through campaign funds = no matter, you can bet your bippy he will have this covered with a story - like an inadvertent purchase by a campaign worker - high enough up to have unsupervised use of a credit card.
One thing I hope people will remember, we won't hear the truth out of the disassembler's mouth until and unless the truth first comes out from another source.
BTW, Behind Liberal Lines, what's the connection with Blondie?
In the nineties we bought Christmas gifts for low-end clients at Tiffany’s. The under $200 selection is pretty wide, including pens, cuff links and money clips. It’s all silver and all found on the first floor.
Well, we know he didn’t buy an American Flag Pin.
One Tiffany's search. That will be $572.25 please.
Actually I think that’s a good idea. It would be a good feature to have an “opt in” / “opt out” option for keywords and such.
Maybe a subscribe feature with options.
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