Obama New York City Date Night
Barack and Michelle Obama had a date night in New York City over the weekend. Well, actually it was more like a date weekend, but who cares? Anyway, there has been a bit of a ruckus about how much this nice little evening out cost, considering that the President has been explaining to the common people that we must make sacrifices in our lifestyles for the better good and all that.
You might remember the huge big deal the main stream media made about George W. Bush going to Texas for working time off. However, when he was out of town, he was pictured hauling logs, clearing brush and working out. This President is more inclined to be photographed eating Wagyu steak and arugula, walking topless on beautiful Hawaiian beaches or joking with the main stream media (his base) about terrorism and economy. The celebrity President went out on the town while the country is suffering financial strain. He did it on the tax payer dime while asking the tax payers to pay more taxes and to cut back our spending. He’s getting some bad press for his bad timing. But, of course, he will always have his defenders, no matter what he does.
The White House is refusing to tell how much this little excursion with his wife cost the American people. Considering that last months joyride and Air Force One photo-op over the Statue of Liberty and Ground Zero cost us about $250,000 (or more), we can safely assume that this trip would cost at least that. All things considered.
Eat that taxpayer minions.
As an aside, I wish that Michelle’s stylist would suggest she not wear outfits that emphasize her hips. Just making a suggestion …
Speaking of dates and relationships between men and women, have you heard about The Crisis of the Disappearing Educated Male? Read about it over at the American Thinker.
Its interesting to watch the leftist get upset with what their celebrity president is doing to our country. They are even upset with the latest from the left’s love child Michael Moore. It seems he’s celebrating the demise of GM. Who knew they’d get upset when their own pocket’s got picked. I guess their ideals of sharing all they have with everyone else only goes for other people.
They are still recounting votes in Minnesota in the Franken-Coleman Senate race. Does anyone care anymore? It’ll most likely be time for the next election before this one is decided.
Nancy Reagan has said she was snubbed by The Barack Obama. Now Obama’s media, otherwise known as NBC is mocking Mrs. Reagan for that. I bet she wishes she was nicer to Bush while he was in office now.
It seems that Playboy magazine has gone all hate speech on conservative women. Sadly, we seem to live in a country divided and even our sex magazines are taking sides. Do men really look for intellectual conversation on politics from women wearing floppy bunny ears and bushy tails? I think not! Whoever is editing Playboy these days must really believe men when they say they by the magazine for the articles.
It turns out that Pamela of Atlas Shrugs is one of the targets of Playboy’s hate speech. I doubt she’s overly concerned about it. She’s rightfully more concerned with the fatal illusions about moderate muslims. Check it out.
In all seriousness, why worry about terrorists, the growing threat of war in the Middle East, Hugo Chavez mocking the American president, growing threats from North Korea and the fact that even the Russians are seeing an American decent into Marxism. Why even think about the flip-flopping of the President on closing or not closing Gitmo or ending the war in Iraq … while the violence in Iraq and Afghanistan steadily increases. We shouldn’t wince that Gitmo prisoners are getting new laptops while our young people are being educated by the likes of Bill Ayers. Why worry about growing violence in Pakistan along with increasing power of the Taliban? All of that is nothing next to a Presidential promise to take his wife out to a Broadway play, traveling on the most expensive aircraft in the world to and from New York City and showing his wife a wonderful time on one of the most expensive presidential dates in the history. Yes sir, that’s our President.
Below are some videos of the New York City date night.
Obama New York City Date Night – Video
Obama New York City Date Night Cost? – Video
June 1st, 2009 at 8:14 pm
I am really STUNNED that the liberal media is spinning this into a romantic night for two that the couple well-deserved.
Does the President have the right to a date night? Of course, he does. No one is disputing that.
BUT, when the taxpayers are paying for it, what’s wrong with all the nice places in DC for a date? How about you go out in New York when…oh…all those hundreds of times your Presidential duties will take you to New York! It’s the whole entitlement thing gone beserk. Somehow the President feels like he’s ENTITLED to this!
June 1st, 2009 at 8:16 pm
Entitled is exactly the right word for it. His sense of entitlement is like nothing I’ve ever seen before. He believes his own press, apparently.
June 2nd, 2009 at 7:44 am
Trust me, this guy needs time off. For all our benefits. Anything to keep him from the looming meltdown I think hes gonna have one day as a result of all his crap.
Matter of fact I wish he’d take a really long vacation and just leave everything the hell alone for a couple months. The cost would be worth it.
June 2nd, 2009 at 8:49 am
Hah yeah Micky, compared to whatever dozens of billions of dollars he’ll throw away next, 250 grand doesn’t sound so bad right?
June 2nd, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Right, and how much did GWB (the most vacations of ANY president) spend on his trips to the Crawford ranch?
Obama has been workign 5 months without a break, a weekend trip to NYC is NOTHING compared to the 400+ days GWB was off work.
June 2nd, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Lets not get too stingy fellow Americans. I suppose he’s entitiled to a few perks along the way, and I am sure it gave NYC some good advertising for the jet set and suburban New Jerseyites and Connecticutians to go in and spend some bucks for a big city glamor night out. Actually, its good obama goes out and about to help wake up the country to going out and about again so we can end this recession sooner. It was good advertising for NYC and the press that covered him had to go and spend money there too. His job is bigger than just administrate a beurcrazy and get votes thru congress, he also has to be a marketing man and bring in the business. Ultimately, he should be a rain maker for the country as well.
June 3rd, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Well, he’s had he date night…so be it.
I just wish he’d stop lecturing the country to tighten the belt and do without, while he spends 1/4 million hard earned tax dollars to see a show and have dinner. He’s lost his moral authority to lecture us.
June 3rd, 2009 at 9:49 pm
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June 7th, 2009 at 5:55 am
I think Phil hit it on the head. He’s been working for 5 straight months. So far he’s just about bankrupted america. Put the US automakers in the hands of the union(guess I’m buying a car from Japan now). Oh let’s see what else has he done? Oh yeah. Put a just a couple people who don’t pay their taxes in charge of enforcing it and making those laws. And the latest? A latino who thinks that the judiciary branch of government has some other duty other than applying the constitution to court cases. We’re ABSOLUTELY going in the right direction as s country. When is the next election? I wonder why he hasn’t called Nancy Pelosi to the carpet with her CIA blunders…oh yeah…he doesn’t care.
June 8th, 2009 at 9:33 am
You know, the man and his wife can go out every saturday as far as I’m conserned. But he can pay for his own. It’s not like he has any bills to pay, we pay for all that. He doesn’t have to pay for his staff – we pay for that, and his insurance and security and everything else (including pizza delievery)… the man has a big fat income, he needs to start buying his own ‘extras’.
June 10th, 2009 at 6:23 am
Okay, if you could all suspend your “outrage” for a second and do some simple math: Take the figure of $250,000 and divide it by 138,000,000
(yes, 138 MILLION, the number of US taxpayers, based on the 2007 census), what do you get? 0.0018 dollars, per taxpayer. How much did you spend on your coffee this morning? More than that I imagine.
June 10th, 2009 at 9:04 am
Hey Michael.
Lets apply your formula to everything else, okay ? Sh*t adds up ya know.
The US population is 304,059,724. Dividing the $3.552 trillion that he just pi$$ed off by that gives us close to $11,833 each. If we divide by the number of taxpayers it comes out to around $25,000.00 each. And now this b*tch wants to bill me for a date ?
Its my coffee you moron, no one else is paying for it.
Phil.
How do you get from someones own home(Bushs ranch) to a flight to Paris with all the trimmings being the same thing ? Do any of you clueless moonbats really think any presidnt ever really goes on vacation ? The concentration of issues to deal with in one day may be limited while on these trips but they are never “not on the job”.
June 12th, 2009 at 6:23 am
If you believe he spent $250,000 for a dinner and show, then the brain cells in half your brain are gone.It happens when one listens to right wing pundits all day for years. Dead cells.
He paid for the date, but because of security, could not take a commerical flight like the rest of us. His life is not his own anymore and an American President certainly deserves a flight away from the Washington circus once in a while. Go Obama.
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:49 pm
From a former Air Force Colonel….
Subject: The Date: And the media is concerned with the cost of Palin’s clothes?
First, let me say that I’ve moved three presidents up to now and I’ve seen incredible waste. But, the “new” guy really takes the cake. I don’t have an issue with the President promising his wife dinner and a show or that he even takes his wife out; but, when I saw the news say that the date cost $24,000, here’s what you DON’T know.
Three days before “dinner” a C-17 flew Marines and the helicopter maintenance equipment to JFK Airport. The day before “dinner” I flew the USSS and the motorcade to JFK Airport. Our crew of 5 spent two days and nights at the Hilton in Times Square . My hotel bill: $621.66 plus $64 a day in per diem. The USSS guys were at a different Hilton in NYC, so figure that cost another $14,000+- plus per diem. The Marines had to have cost as much and were there four days, so figure another $55,000 plus per diem (for 44 Marines).
We were supposed to fly the motorcade back and go home, but the Air Force was so short C-17’s that we were re-tasked to take the motorcade back, return to JFK and take the helicopter back to Quantico …
When we got back to JFK, while the pilot was turning the plane around to park, he noticed a rotor blade sticking out of the hangar where the helicopter was parked and informed me that either it wasn’t ready to transport or it was flying home. After shutting down I walked over to the hangar and to my surprise I find FIVE helicopters, not ONE. We’re obviously not transporting five big helicopters. I went and talked to the Marines guarding the “fleet” and found that they were flying all five helicopters home and we were only transporting the Marines and the maintenance equipment. After talking to the Marine(s) in charge, I was told that the White House requested FIVE helicopters. The Marines told me that they spent all morning trying to figure out how much it cost them to come and said they figured it cost them $140,000 to stay there (I don’t know where they came up with that) and the trip’s total had to be about $1,000,000.
We heard that the President didn’t use Air Force One (the 747) so I asked if he came in on one of the 757’s. I was told that he came in on THREE Air Force Lear jets.
So, date night consisted of:
2 C-17’s flying three missions, 3 Lear jets, 5 Helicopters, Presidential Motorcade, 44 Marines, more than 20 USSS personnel on our plane. Who knows what it cost the NYPD and NY Port Authority (at the airport) in overtime.
These are the same people that chastised the automobile CEO’s for using their aircraft. It further proves that the media only use the facts that make the President look good and hide any facts that will detract from his persona.
Is this the ‘change’ we expected? Talk with friends and those who are not blinded by charisma. Many folks I know who voted for Obama are very disappointed and sorry they did so. Remember, 2010 is just around the corner. All we have to do is survive long enough.
The Emperor’s clothes on a grand scale. “Transparency”?
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:19 pm
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