A meme that has been carefully managed by the Obama White House is that the president is a man of the people, not just a cool cat but one of Us. The fable has been promoted by the president’s surrogates in the media since the campaign season of 2008 when his work as a community organizer, something conservatives laughed about as rabble rousing, was redefined as sacred work of the proletariat class.
Photo: Zariff the Barber Gives Obama a Haircut
Today we learn that Barack Obama has been flying his personal barber “Zariff,” a nice Muslim man from Chicago, to the White House every two weeks like clockwork. Over the course of four years, the taxpayers have footed a cumulative bill in excess of one million dollars to give the president a haircut. Warren Buffet, meanwhile, still cuts his hair at the local barbershop in his hometown for $15 dollars. So do I, and so do you. You can read the story here.
Marketing the president as a man of the people flies in the face of what everyone plainly sees no matter how much his handlers try to change the subject. On his White House dinner table, it was leaked that Obama’s regular menu cycle includes foie gras, quiche, and raspberry sorbet. Far from the grub of the proletariat working class, Obama’s bourgeoisie cuisine is fitting of any 18th century French king.
Obama’s income over the past five years has exceeded one million dollars each year. He grew up a young man of moderate means, but he never seemed to fit in with his peers at school. Obama had few friends in Hawaii, or for that matter in Indonesia where he grew up practicing Islam. Like people often do who suddenly accumulate “new money,” the president has turned to his wealth to fill the voids in his life.
And for him it appears to be difficult to differentiate his private wealth with the public treasure which he is safeguarding at the White House. He flies his personal barber in from Chicago on your dime, because to Obama that is what rich people do. I don’t think he thinks about the public image no matter how much his campaign staff want you to believe he is one of us. He does it because he can — because he thinks that is what rich people like him do.
You can watch your tax dollars at work in the video below. Reader thoughts?
Video: Obama’s Barber
May 31st, 2012 at 9:46 am
What the frick is it with Democrap men and their hair?
BJ Clinton kept AFOne waiting while he got his hair cut in LAX—then Johnny Edwards with $450 haircuts??
If I was married to a Moonbat–gift giving would be easy…A huge mirror for every holiday.
Narcisstic bunch of fools.
May 31st, 2012 at 12:28 pm
Over/under on the word Moonbat today?
I am guessing 50.
May 31st, 2012 at 12:33 pm
Today we learn that Barack Obama has been flying his personal barber “Zariff,” a nice Muslim man from Chicago, to the White House every two weeks like clockwork.
Much like the previous post about the “homosexual” drug dealer, not a barber, but a “Muslim” barber.
What if he was a Methodist or a Baptist or a Catholic, would that be noted?
Great entertainment.
May 31st, 2012 at 12:51 pm
You’re reporting as fact a report on Fox Nation which mentions a report that “surface” from German source. Hmmm. Oh, and you leave out the part where the report about the alleged report says he pays for these trips himself….. so not on the taxpayer’s dime. Even if true. But sounds quite sketchy to me. I’ll await a more reliable source, thank you.
May 31st, 2012 at 12:55 pm
Wow, the pickins sure are slim these days!
It’s becoming increasingly more difficult to tell if this site is for real or if it’s actually a brilliant parody. These recent submissions read like poorly written Onion articles.
May 31st, 2012 at 1:57 pm
I really cannot see Obama’s hair being worth a million dollars. The American people are being ripped off by this elitist moron in the White House. A haircut every two weeks?!?! Give me a break! Its not like he has much hair to begin with. May as well just go bald.
May 31st, 2012 at 2:16 pm
Are you really that dense Andy?
Even in the Fox report it states that the president pays for the trips himself, as TA pointed out.
Reread the above until it makes sense to you.
May 31st, 2012 at 4:38 pm
“This site is so lame, next they’re gonna be making criticizing Obama’s haircuts!!!”
May 31st, 2012 at 4:53 pm
Oh please. I KNOW that you want to go back those halcyon Clinton days, but I am sorry, it ain’t gonna work.
You need to come up with something BETTER than this. Rehashing old s*** is just not going to work. “The President has haircuts.” So what. He sits on the can, too, I bet.
Excuse me I gotta go take a s***.
May 31st, 2012 at 11:15 pm
I’m growing amused by the day when a few diehard rabble still try to excuse this president’s behavior in office.
June 1st, 2012 at 1:26 pm
Snow,
Is Obama paying for the Kobe steaks he has flown in from Japan, too? How about all those trips on Air Force One to campaign fund raisers? Oh sure, he follows ‘the law’ with his campaign paying some token fee based on airline tickets. Hardly the same as the millions it costs us taxpayers.
June 1st, 2012 at 2:11 pm
Haircuts these days set a bad example for those boasting frugality.
Once you recieve the cut it must me maintained at a monthly cost for life.
15.00 x 12 x 75 (average) years = 1350.00
No haircut with rubber band = 75.00 at one rubber band per year per average life.
Michelle runs a bit more with the cost of fuel for weedwhackers on the rise.
“You’re reporting as fact a report on Fox Nation which mentions a report that “surface” from German source. Hmmm. Oh, and you leave out the part where the report about the alleged report says he pays for these trips himself….. so not on the taxpayer’s dime. Even if true. But sounds quite sketchy to me. I’ll await a more reliable source, thank you.”
So what ?
The point is that only a fckin idiot would go thru all that no matter whos money !!
June 1st, 2012 at 2:16 pm
“Oh sure, he follows ‘the law’ with his campaign paying some token fee based on airline tickets. Hardly the same as the millions it costs us taxpayers.”
Sht, his salary alone is unjustifiable