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The Obamas Write a $15,000 Check for Haiti Recovery (But Spent $40,000 on Christmas Vacation)
ABC News ^ | Wednesday, January 20, 2010 | Sunlen Miller

Posted on 01/20/2010 5:32:54 PM PST by kristinn

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To: kristinn

Good grief Michelle has lots more shopping and trips to make.


41 posted on 01/20/2010 7:50:39 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: ridesthemiles

And one or more years of Bidens’ tax returns showed about $200 in donations.

These people are unreal


42 posted on 01/20/2010 8:04:43 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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To: kristinn

$15,000? Paltry in light of all the money he’s made on his faux autobiographies and the Nobel Prize, not to mention under-the-table payoffs by the unions. He’s eager to spend trillions of our money, but just $15,000 for Haiti relief? Guess he doesn’t like black people.


43 posted on 01/20/2010 9:07:51 PM PST by hsalaw
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To: kristinn

They did this TODAY?

That’s astounding they waited so long, and gave so little given the First Lady’ wardrobe and restaurant expenditures.

I would bet the Cheney’s and Bush’s have given a lot more, a lot sooner- unpublicized


44 posted on 01/20/2010 9:17:12 PM PST by silverleaf (At Harvard, George Bush got C's - Obama probably failed "lunch")
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To: La Lydia

that Nobel money is belt and shoe money for me-shell


45 posted on 01/20/2010 9:17:45 PM PST by silverleaf (At Harvard, George Bush got C's - Obama probably failed "lunch")
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To: sten

40k on xmas vacation. 0 on presents for their kids. I hear they do not allow xmas presents.


46 posted on 01/20/2010 9:32:13 PM PST by screaminsunshine
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To: kristinn

And conservatives like us are far more generous in charitable donations than libs.


47 posted on 01/20/2010 9:38:37 PM PST by myknowledge (F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
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To: kristinn

yeah and she was spotted wearing a coat worth nearly $4000 :(. Wow


48 posted on 01/20/2010 10:37:23 PM PST by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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To: fatnotlazy
What the heck? That money comes from the taxpayers anyway.

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Hey, please take it easy on President Obama concerning his $15,000 donation to the Haiti terrible catastrophe.

Remember, President Obama really doesn't have much money to donate to charity for this reason:

As you probably know, President Obama has to save his pennies in order to pay his lawyers who are defending him against those "birthers" who are fighting in court to have President Obama release his 1961 Hawaii long form birth certificate.

At last count, Obama or the Democratic Party has paid over $1 million dollars, and counting, to lawyers to keep the public from looking at Obama's Hawaii long form birth certificate, a birth certificate that would cost Obama about $10 to get a copy from Hawaii.

So please, be nice to Obama and be thankful that Obama was able to come up with $15,000 of his hard-earned money to donate to the Haiti fund, $15,000 that Obama could have used to pay off $1 million fees to his lawyers who are fighting the "birthers" in court case after court case.

49 posted on 01/20/2010 10:57:12 PM PST by john mirse
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Well, so what? I mean, I gave $50 for relief in Haiti, but just spent over $1,000 for a week’s vacation. Does that make me a bad person or something? Seems like a fairly generous donation to me.

No, it doesn't. However I have a problem with liberals whining about 'greed' and going on a tirade about how much others should pay for their cause.

I've never met a generous liberal, and certainly never met one as generous with their money as they are with someone else's.
50 posted on 01/20/2010 10:59:06 PM PST by proud_yank (Socialism - An Answer In Search Of A Question For Over 100 Years)
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To: john mirse

Yes it would cost him only $10 to get a copy of his BC from Hawaii, IF that BC exists. If ...


51 posted on 01/20/2010 11:31:27 PM PST by zorro8987
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To: screaminsunshine

really? that’d be interesting. do you have a link to that info?


52 posted on 01/21/2010 12:42:44 AM PST by sten
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Yes it would cost him only $10 to get a copy of his BC from Hawaii, IF that BC exists. If ...

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Scott Brown: Do you think that new Senator Scott Brown would say "no" if we asked him to show us his Massachusetts long form birth certificate? I don't think so.

53 posted on 01/21/2010 2:08:49 AM PST by john mirse
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To: kristinn
That's embarrassing! Are we supposed to be impressed??? LOL LOL LOL

We have sports figures giving 100's of thousands & this clown give 15k????

54 posted on 01/21/2010 2:40:27 AM PST by blondee123 (Don't blame me, I voted for Sarah !)
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To: proudtobeanamerican1
Sorry, I'm still fuming about the $500 I gave to the Katrina mess. I'm also very confident that Obama will commit 10’s of billions of dollars in aid over the next several months. I'll give my donations to the IRS.
55 posted on 01/21/2010 5:23:16 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Blue Collar Christian

He JUST made it public.

Didn’t he announce his 15k donation?


56 posted on 01/21/2010 5:53:43 AM PST by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: fatnotlazy

$15,000? What a putz. I’d bet that I have “given” a lot more than that in foreign aid to haiti over the years. Besides, 15 grand is less than he spends on Wednesday party night. Wagu beef is about $1,000 per ounce. Watch for his media to do stories on where exactly his contribution went.


57 posted on 01/21/2010 5:54:05 AM PST by Texas resident (Hunkered Down)
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