GOP goes after the Obama's date night in NYC [jetting off somewhere at taxpayer expense......]

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[Logical me]

Nothing new for King Obama. He is just a childlike playboy with a new toy, taxpayers money. Bet the bill for Air Force one and his world travel will be many billions for his first term.

[celtic gal]

Just heard this on the news. If this is not Louie the XVI and Marie Antoinette behaviour I don't know what is. In the Marine Corps, we are taught to lead by example. In these hard times, when businesses are going bust, and we are all expected to tighten our belts, this dictator takes his wife on holiday at huge taxpayer costs. This President is cruisin’ for a bruisin’. This kind of behaviour is going to lose him even his own devout socialist democrats, who are also feeling the pinch, in the next election ( unless we can get that birth certificate thing and get him booted out of the WH and into jail ).

[Paul46360]

The F-ing-RNC call do all the screaming they want..BUT unitl the MSM starts wagging their fingers, BO will jet off to where he wants to.
REMEMBER he said HE WON!!!

[Ken522]

That’s right - whatever obama wants is okay with Chrissy Matthews ....

[texteacher]

Hmmmm, makes me wonder if Sasha and Malia were on Air Force One when it circled the Statue of Liberty. Nothing like teasing with the truth?

[Big_Monkey]

Think back to the '91 recession. We were treated to a steady diet of pictures and videos of the Bushies recreating in Kennebeunkport. We had videos of Bush golfing, fishing and cruising in his "gas guzzling" speed boat.

I don't know what the per-hour fuel consumption rate of Bush's fishing boat was, but I'm guessing it was much, much less than the 3,400 gallons per hour that AF1 burns.

[freekitty]

Do we really need a POTUS and First Lady who are immune to the economic hardships of Americans, their voters included?

[buccaneer81]

The libs are justifying the flight costs because he’s taking a Gulfstream instead of the VC-25. What a joke.

[Bluebird Singing]

Just like their Valentine date in Chicago while the stimulus bill was waiting on his desk to be signed.

They’re a couple of sickos.

[John123]

they will take a smaller VIP jet under military command to minimize the costs

That must really hurt... but really Obama, can't you take a commercial flight or something?

[John123]

We had videos of Bush golfing, fishing and cruising in his "gas guzzling" speed boat.

Did the Bush's own the boat and fueled the boat at their expense?

[freekitty]

On his own nickle too.

[BluH2o]

Did the Bush's own the boat and fueled the boat at their expense?

Yes. Chase boats manned by the SS were gov't owned and were on the taxpayers dime.

[Big_Monkey]

"I don't know what the per-hour fuel consumption rate of Bush's fishing boat was, but I'm guessing it was much, much less than the 3,400 590 gallons per hour that AF1 burns.

Fixed it.

Of course, one would have to also add the 4,300 gallons per hour that the C5 (used to transport the Beast and other SS vehicles) uses.

[Las Vegas Ron]

I'm finding it more and more difficult to post anything anymore without getting banned

[Big_Monkey]

"Did the Bush's own the boat and fueled the boat at their expense?

Absolutely.

[Lou Budvis]

“The president and first lady had announced they will take a smaller VIP jet ...to New York this evening.”

Are you freakin’ serious? If he wanted to live this type of lifestyle, he should’ve gone to work on Wall Street, or had a sucessful talk show like Rush ;)

[NonValueAdded]

SNL watch!

[linn37]

1) I am sure there are plenty of nice restaurants in DC. 2) They should pay the exact cost of using the airplane if they intend to use it for personal business.