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'The Obamas treat Air Force One like an Uber ride': Chief of spending watchdog says
Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | 12/15/2015 | Kieren Corcoran

Posted on 12/16/2015 4:49:05 AM PST by simpson96

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To: simpson96

“Obama’s holiday habit proves that he is out of touch - and has to stop.”

NOW??? His LAST Christmas in office???

We’ve been hollering about this manic personal spending of his for SEVEN years!

Sheesh.


41 posted on 12/16/2015 6:31:36 AM PST by joethedrummer
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To: Norm Lenhart

True.


42 posted on 12/16/2015 6:36:34 AM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: simpson96

I just cannot wait for these people to GTFO of DC and off of the public stage. 1/20/17 CANNOT come soon enough.


43 posted on 12/16/2015 7:10:09 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: simpson96

The left loves it when Hussein pisses off the Right no matter what the cost.


44 posted on 12/16/2015 7:14:44 AM PST by DungeonMaster (2John11 = shun democrats.)
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To: BitWielder1
I don't mind him going on vacation anywhere in the world, it's the coming back I have a problem with.

We could all move and leave no forwarding address...

Regards,
GtG

45 posted on 12/16/2015 7:24:28 AM PST by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, but it's OK. They all know me here.)
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To: 9YearLurker

I understand that it seems petty to begrudge a vacation, etc.

But isn’t it a little bit odd that they never go back to Chicago? Its as if they (including their daughters) had no roots there. Barry hasn’t lived in Hawaii for decades...so why pick it (every single time) over his alleged home of Chicago?

And there’s another element to this - how he treats his hired help (secret service) and staff, and even media lackeys. By going so far away, he is essentially telling them “screw you, you’re not spending any of the holidays with your family”.

I don’t begrudge him a vacation...but can’t there be some limits? I don’t think if he tried, he could find a vacation spot that cost the taxpayers more money, and disrupted the lives of his staff more.


46 posted on 12/16/2015 7:24:53 AM PST by lacrew
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To: simpson96

We allow our exalted elected leaders to be treated like royalty. And our exalted elected leaders expect to be treated like royalty. It makes it easier to accept the exalted status of our elected leaders if we just accept our role as peons.


47 posted on 12/16/2015 7:26:53 AM PST by lakecumberlandvet (APPEASEMENT NEVER WORKS.)
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To: Night Hides Not

Certainly nobody put a stop to Hillary during Bill’s last year. Remember the grand tour of China with the gold bathroom hauled around on a trailer and an entourage of 800, including Chelsea, Chelsea’s friend, her mother and who know which other members of her family? And then she went to the Australian Olympics. And she traipsed all over the mid-east. I remember pictures of her and Chelsea on camels.


48 posted on 12/16/2015 8:25:24 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: simpson96

Its not that he keeps going. ..it’s that he comes BACK!


49 posted on 12/16/2015 8:51:34 AM PST by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam- it's about Islam. That death cult must be eradicated.)
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To: Salamander

Yes. The last seven years have proven that they ARE ghetto-rats that won the lottery.


50 posted on 12/16/2015 9:48:29 AM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: Salamander

More specifically, the 0bamas have shown what happens when people who have never earned anything are given money and power.

One of Trump’s biggest assets as a candidate is that he’s not a professional politician. He earned what he has, or at least appears to have done so.


51 posted on 12/16/2015 9:50:41 AM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: lacrew

Wouldn’t you rather Christmas in Hawaii than Chicago?

And I don’t think you can really hang the SS thing on him, since W used to drag them to Texas in August.


52 posted on 12/16/2015 11:08:29 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Jacquerie

Oh, I agree with all that—but it looks petty for the GOP to be pointing it out.


53 posted on 12/16/2015 11:09:11 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: simpson96

Obama embraces the culture of “get as much as you can when you can” undoubtedly because he believes that what everyone else does. It’s certainly what everyone he knows does.


54 posted on 12/16/2015 11:18:44 AM PST by FourPeas (Tone matters.)
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To: tgusa

“Dude. I haven’t heard that phrase in 40 years.”

That’s ‘cuz you haven’t been to my house.


55 posted on 12/16/2015 1:45:31 PM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: TexasRepublic

:-)


56 posted on 12/17/2015 5:15:13 AM PST by tgusa (gun control: hitting your target.)
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