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Hypocrisy->President Takes Wife To NYC On Tax-Payer's Dime
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| 5/31/09
| The Lid
Posted on 05/30/2009 9:35:22 PM PDT by Shellybenoit
Remember that little speech the President made in Elkhart Indiana in February. The one where he said:
But, you know, you are not going to be able to give out these big bonuses until you pay taxpayers back. You cant get corporate jets. You cant go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers dime. Theres got to be some accountability and some responsibility, and thats something that I intend to impose as president of the United States.
This afternoon that same President took his wife on the "Corporate" Jet (Airforce One) and Helicopter, along with the Secret Service, his "corporately paid body guards" and flew to New York for dinner and a Broadway Play.
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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: broadway; govtwaste; lasvegas; obama
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To: Shellybenoit
everything is about them. she has a 24/7 cosmetologist on call, he probably has the equivalent because they are both so ugly on the inside, they need all the help they can get.
To: Shellybenoit
It costs about $68,000 an hour to operate Air Force One.
Do the math.
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posted on
05/30/2009 9:42:01 PM PDT
by
South40
(Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing its Idiot.)
To: Shellybenoit
Does anyone remember President Bush pulling anything like this? It’s practically embezzlement.
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posted on
05/30/2009 9:42:30 PM PDT
by
Hoosier-Daddy
("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
To: Shellybenoit
Do as I say... not as I do.
To: Shellybenoit
Hypocrisy aside, you’ve gotta admit you would do the same thing if given the chance ... at least I would :)
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posted on
05/30/2009 9:44:08 PM PDT
by
voteNRA
(A citizenry armed with rifles simply cannot be tyrannized)
To: South40
frpm another thread: They did not take airforce 1, but a smaller plane. Regardless with security etc the Saturday Night Jive cost around amillion dollars of the tax payers money.....Bill Em Danno!
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posted on
05/30/2009 9:45:22 PM PDT
by
hoosiermama
(Hey hey! Ho ho! Where's your Birth Certificate/ We've a right to know!)
To: voteNRA
You would put other people further in debt just for a night on the town? I know I wouldn’t.
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posted on
05/30/2009 9:45:32 PM PDT
by
South40
(Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing its Idiot.)
To: hoosiermama
Whichever plane he took, he spent taxpayer dollars that we didn’t have and further exposed himself as a hypocrite in the process. What a loser.
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posted on
05/30/2009 9:48:42 PM PDT
by
South40
(Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing its Idiot.)
To: South40
You would put other people further in debt just for a night on the town? I know I wouldnt. When you say it like that it doesn't sound so cool.
Weekly cocktail parties serving Waygu beef - NO
One evening - Maybe
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posted on
05/30/2009 9:51:24 PM PDT
by
voteNRA
(A citizenry armed with rifles simply cannot be tyrannized)
To: South40
loser? Why have you seen them strutting across the sidewalk .....It’s Saturday Night Jive! he coo man! She got her new duud on and they’re lookin fine. ;~)
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posted on
05/30/2009 9:55:16 PM PDT
by
hoosiermama
(Hey hey! Ho ho! Where's your Birth Certificate/ We've a right to know!)
To: voteNRA
When you say it like that it doesn't sound so cool. Actually, I should have put it this way...
You would put other people further in debt and make a complete fool of yourself by showing your hypocrisy just for a night on the town? I know I wouldnt.
:-)
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posted on
05/30/2009 9:57:47 PM PDT
by
South40
(Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing its Idiot.)
To: Shellybenoit
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posted on
05/30/2009 9:58:20 PM PDT
by
PugetSoundSoldier
(Indignation over the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible)
To: Shellybenoit
This is because Obama is more equal than the rest of us.
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posted on
05/30/2009 9:58:44 PM PDT
by
eclectic
(Liberalism is a mental disorder)
To: South40
Fine, but I have to admit that I did almost the same thing tonight when I took my wife out to dinner.
Like Zero, we took my company car, although mine is an Explorer not AF-1.
:)
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posted on
05/30/2009 10:03:56 PM PDT
by
voteNRA
(A citizenry armed with rifles simply cannot be tyrannized)
To: voteNRA
Hypocrisy aside, youve gotta admit you would do the same thing if given the chance ... at least I would :) This is why the USA is doomed. Everyone seems to want to put self interest above National interest. We should burn that painting of Washington returning his commission... Why are we any better than the whores in Washington????
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posted on
05/30/2009 10:10:16 PM PDT
by
April Lexington
(Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
To: voteNRA
I take the company car everywhere I go.
But I own the company. :-)
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posted on
05/30/2009 10:11:10 PM PDT
by
South40
(Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing its Idiot.)
To: South40
I encourage him to fly more often. It is inherently dangerous......
To: Anti-Kenyan
I encourage him to fly more often. It is inherently dangerous...... Certainly Ron Brown would agree...if he could.
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posted on
05/30/2009 10:18:59 PM PDT
by
South40
(Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing its Idiot.)
To: South40
Like the one likes to say "he won!" I guess that's like he "owns us".
Except for when things don't look so good, then he took on a lease and the old owner rode a little rough.
Or something like that :)
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posted on
05/30/2009 10:24:26 PM PDT
by
voteNRA
(A citizenry armed with rifles simply cannot be tyrannized)
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