Obamas reap windfall in diplomatic gifts

Associated PressMatthew Lee ^ | 1/18/11 | Matthew Lee

[Captain7seas]

Haul it all down to the hock shop, the country's BROKE. That's what alot of American’s are doing that are also BROKE.

Keep importing oil
Keep importing goods from China
Keep exporting manufacturing.
Keep the border wide open.
Keep shutting down natural resource production.
Keep borrowing money.
Keep electing the same idiots that are maintaining the above.

How's all that working out for us?

[T Minus Four]

I wish I didn’t know what that meant. Ew.

[Vinnie]

Better tell Zer0 and esp. Michelle this stuff is owned by the Government.

[skeeter]

Not her first I am sure.

Somehow I think Barry would be singing falcetto today if he had ever tried to fob off such a trinket on Michelle.

Unless he served it up with some lobster thermador.

[ballplayer]

simple just sign an executive Order

[shhrubbery!]

You do realize they don’t get to keep these things.

The Clintons tried to, darn near got away with it too.

Maybe the only reason we heard about this little scandal was the other, bigger scandal going on as the Clintons vacated the White House -- the infamous Mark Rich pardon.

After they were caught, the Clintons claimed they would return all the gifts they had already moved to the Clinton Lie-brary in Arkansas, and the house in Chappaqua.

I wonder if they ever did.

[5thGenTexan]

That was year one during the lovefest. I wonder if they even got an iPod in 2010.

[Blogatron]

Come for the Juice; stay for the Bling.

[nonliberal]

Actually, I thought he gave it to BO.

Not his first, either. :)

[MayflowerMadam]

“You do realize they don’t get to keep these things.”

They don’t get to keep the things they report. What about the other sh!t they got under the table? We’re talkin’ Chicago thugs here.

[isthisnickcool]

The king gave Michelle Obama a pearl necklace. Not her first I am sure.

Such comments are lowbrow and juvenile. Funny too:)

[MPJackal]

“Such comments are lowbrow and juvenile.”

I have been called worse, and deservedly so.

[sbMKE]

Amend the tax returns.

[Bernard Marx]

Agreed. But under-the-table stuff got him the Presidency in the first place. It’s always amusing to wonder why politicians spend millions of dollars to run for offices that pay chump change in comparison. It’s equally amusing to ponder how they seem to grow richer and richer the longer they “serve.”

[Huntress]

Some leaders chose more modest gifts. Britain's Queen Elizabeth presented Obama with framed portraits of herself and her husband, Prince Philip, worth $775.

Tee hee. I bet you thought she'd forgotten about that iPod, Barry.