(KEVIN LAMARQUE - REUTERS) Posted on 12/21/2011 2:24:56 PM PST by Qbert
His payroll tax cut plan might be stuck in Congress, but President Obama found another way to boost consumer spending Wednesday: He went Christmas shopping.
(KEVIN LAMARQUE - REUTERS)
Obama ducked out of the White House at about 12:45 p.m. for a quick jaunt into Virginia, where he dropped more than $235 in less than an hour.
The excursion began at some big box stores at Potomac Yards in Alexandria. With his wife Michelle and two daughters already vacationing in Hawaii, Obama brought the only remaining member of the family with him: Bo, the Portuguese water dog.
It was a good trip for the nation’s first dog. The first stop was a Pet Smart, where the president purchased a dog bone and a chew toy totalling $41. Bo also was spied by nosy reporters and paparazzi sizing up a brown poodle named “Cinnamon.”
“Okay, Bo, don’t get too personal here,” Obama admonished, clutching Bo’s leash.
The trip came in the middle of what might otherwise have been another tense day for the president, who just before leaving the White House called House Speaker John A. Boehner and implored him to support a two-month extension to the payroll tax that remains in limbo.
Obama has delayed his annual winter vacation in Honolulu, even though his family decamped from D.C. last Friday. He has not said whether he intends to join them for Christmas, but his shopping trip included picking up some gifts for daughters Malia and Sasha.
After Pet Smart, Obama went into into Best Buy, heading to the Wii section and buying a game called “Just Dance 3.”
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You’re absolutely right. IIRC, Before the White House, they didn’t celebrate Christmas or Birthdays...It has something to do with the word “Happy”. I believe Merry Christmas was early on referred to as Happy Christmas.
A $41 chew toy for a dog is a disgusting display of decadence.
I hope his supporters on welfare, food stamps and housing vouchers are happy for him.
Probably so.
Check out the police tape:
http://www.daylife.com/photo/05sFgJAbzWcwe?__site=daylife&q=obama
http://www.daylife.com/photo/012m0MOfl02W4?__site=daylife&q=obama
http://www.daylife.com/photo/02bAbmK1F90We?__site=daylife&q=obama
a dog bone and a chew toy totalling $41
$41 ??
and folks wonder why we’re in the mess we’re in..
I have to say “BO” is cute and the only thing easy on the eyes in that family.
OMG!! I actually feel SORRY for the poor bast@rd!!! His wife and kids couldn’t WAIT to go on a vacation!!! WITHOUT their MEAL TICKET!! Oh, wait....WE are their meal ticket.
Friggin’ cheapskate.......
“Have any of us ever seen any person shopping with their dog?”
Just about every single day.
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Amateur.
He looks like hell.
Agree....I thought he looks sick...very sick....
I thought he was suposed to be supporting the little mom and pop stores.
“give your dog a bone”. This old man went rolling home....
“”I wonder how many thousands of real shoppers were highly inconvenienced (let alone the retailers) by his mobile convoy.””
Inconvenience to the public is acceptable for shopping trips but not for going to church!
He’s looking mighty gay in a lot of these photos.
I guess that’s the first time he’s paid for any thing in a longgggg time since he did say this:
“From PetSmart, Obama moved on to a nearby Best Buy, telling reporters the stop was “for the girls.” Inside the store, he made a beeline for the video game “Just Dance 3” for Nintendo Wii. “The girls beat me every time on these dance games,” he told reporters traveling with him, “but you’ll never get a picture of me.”
Obama also picked up two $50 iTunes gift cards and “The Sims 3: Pets.” In all, his total was $194.48 and the president whipped out his credit card to pay. “Let’s see if my credit card still works,” he said.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70756.html#ixzz1hDp9KwYD
100,000? I hope you are joking. Try 4 million.
I guess Axelgrease told him there are lots of comments about the Muslim in chief not celebrating Christmas so it was time for a photo op.
He is such a cheapskate.
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