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White House Won't Reveal Cost of Obamas' Date Night (what happened to "transparency?")
Associated Press ^
| June 1, 2009
Posted on 06/01/2009 1:05:01 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Barry treats the office he currently holds as a kingship, not the presidency of a republic.
He reminds me of the junior high student responding to the insipid question, “What would you do if you were president/governor/mayor?” The question is always asked as if holding one of those positions gives that person unlimited power to do whatever they wanted. At one time most people recognized that it was just a fantasy sort of question. The fanciful response would assume that one would have totalitarian power even though the reality is different. Unfortunately, a lot of the populace believes that being mayor/governor/president does entitle the beholder to a dictatorial power and Obama and his honey seem to believe that as well. There is always something just so very unsophisticated about Obama and his thoughts. He seems to always think like a fourteen year old....and not a very precocious one at that.
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posted on
06/01/2009 1:16:59 PM PDT
by
madinmadtown
(Nuclear...better to mispronounce it, than not understand it.)
To: stop_fascism
The Royal Mother-in-Law is there all the time.
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posted on
06/01/2009 1:17:12 PM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: bigbob
"The Audacity of....audacity?" That's good.
If there's one thing President Obortion is, it's audacious.
If the public ever wakes up and runs him out of town on a rail like he deserves he can always find work in Chicago as a pimp.
To: pgkdan
Imagine if GWB had done this with Laura, even in a prosperous time. They would be calling for investigations.
But of course we know the Bushes were nothing but backwoods Bible thumping bumpkins who didn’t have the class or style to go out for a Sat. night in NYC. End of sarcasm.
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posted on
06/01/2009 1:19:20 PM PDT
by
TNCMAXQ
To: Free ThinkerNY
Fly to NY. A nice diner and Broadway play, first class all the way. Fly home.
Lots of powerful people with lots of money(or access) do this or something similar on a regular basis. Or at least once did.
Like it or not he is prez and that puts him in that category.
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posted on
06/01/2009 1:20:23 PM PDT
by
Phlap
(REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
To: Free ThinkerNY
My suggestion: Let’s do a pool. Everyone gets to take a guess and see who actually comes closest when they finally reveal the costs after we have made such an issue of it.
My guess $125,000
To: Free ThinkerNY
I read somewhere it was around $45,000.00 of taxpayer money. It was on drudge. One of the British rags... so... who knows.
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posted on
06/01/2009 1:22:49 PM PDT
by
erikm88
To: Phlap
Whose money is he spending? his own, or ours?
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posted on
06/01/2009 1:25:09 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(John Galt was exiled.)
To: Army Air Corps
"...Gibbs said Monday the Obamas would have preferred using a commercial airline shuttle to New York and back but the Secret Service would not allow such unprotected travel. " Then stay home. I mean doesn't everyone have to sacrifice a little?
To: Free ThinkerNY
Gibbs said Monday the Obamas would have preferred using a commercial airline shuttle to New York and back but the Secret Service would not allow such unprotected travel Like Washington doesn't have good restaurants and theater??
We all know how the press would have treated this if any Republican President in the air age would have done this, even if there wasn't a nasty recession on. Hypocrites.
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posted on
06/01/2009 1:29:13 PM PDT
by
colorado tanker
("Lastly, I'd like to apologize for America's disproportionate response to Pearl Harbor . . . ")
To: Free ThinkerNY
It was a lie...just like most everything else that comes out of his mouth, and the death cult rats that do his bidding.
The Left are all death cult lying self exterminating rats.
The problem is, they want to exterminate all of *us* too!
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posted on
06/01/2009 1:34:07 PM PDT
by
DGHoodini
(The New York Times, are lying 'Rats!)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Is it too much to hope that they at least got their theater tickets from TKTS?
-PJ
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posted on
06/01/2009 1:35:08 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(This just in... Voting Republican is a Terrorist act!)
To: Argus
So we are now a socialist monarchy...we have a king :(
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posted on
06/01/2009 1:37:19 PM PDT
by
Freedom56v2
(If you think health care is expensive now, just wait till it is free PJ Orourke)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Transparency doesn't exist with this admiinistration. Now if you are talking rats scurrying undercover?
Obama is probably is here to perpetuate one of the biggest frauds and scams in American history. That is his job.
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posted on
06/01/2009 1:38:05 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
What was the carbon footprint of the date?
To: Tzimisce
Guess zero doesn’t have any skin in the game.
To: Phlap
He could do it on his own dime, and I wouldn’t care.
Yes, he paid his dinner and theater tickets, but the taxpayer picked up the rest of the cost of transporting secret service and the media and all other transportation costs.
I can’t afford his date nights. If I’m to pay for their romantic evenings, I’m sure there is a Blockbuster in the vicinity which would do a lot less damage to my wallet.
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posted on
06/01/2009 1:44:42 PM PDT
by
Texas56
To: Free ThinkerNY
The costs aren’t just for the aircraft operating hours. How much for the SS prep and vetting of the venues they were visiting? How much for ground transport, operating costs, fuel, etc. How much for Marine 1 to fly from the WH to Andrews? How much for the local PD to help provide security at the airport in NY? (Can you say OT anyone?)
The SS are usually augmented by local PD to assist the SS with manpower and the WH gets the bill from the locals. There are many more overhead and associated costs with this junket that I haven’t even touched on.
This trip was probably more in the range of $500,000 or more.
FUBO!
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posted on
06/01/2009 1:50:09 PM PDT
by
SZonian
(I'm a Canal Zone brat)
To: freekitty
I’ve been working and paying into the “system” since 1975,
and he gets to go on a date that costs more than I make in two years, go figure...,guess thats what I get for being a bitter old(ish) white guy with a gun!! bad boy- bad boy!
To: Texas56
This is quadrant four escapism. Just like his upcoming trip to the Arab countries.
The middle class is disappearing while Ozero fiddles.
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posted on
06/01/2009 2:02:37 PM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
(President Obama: Pontificator in Chief and Poster Child for the Peter Principle)
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