Posted on 03/05/2009 6:29:43 AM PST by Daffynition
Today is Wednesday, which means it's party time at the White House! The Associated Press explains:
Since the presidency changed hands less than six weeks ago, a burst of entertaining has taken hold of the iconic, white-columned home of America's head of state. Much of it comes on Wednesdays.
The stately East Room, where portraits of George and Martha Washington adorn the walls, was transformed into a concert hall as President Barack Obama presented Stevie Wonder with the nation's highest award for pop music on Wednesday.
A week before that, the foot-stomping sounds of Sweet Honey in the Rock, a female a cappella group, filled the East Room for a Black History Month program first lady Michelle Obama held for nearly 200 sixth- and seventh-graders from around the city.
Cocktails were sipped during at least three such receptions to date, all held on Wednesdays.
We do not begrudge the president his fancy cocktail parties. Indeed, if anyone in the White House is reading this, please add us to the invitation list.
But there is a dissonance here that is rather hard to miss. The same president who last month lectured private-sector executives, "You can't get corporate jets, you can't go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer's dime," is living large in the Executive Mansion that we taxpayers have generously provided him. (And he is being celebrated for it by the AP, which in a recent court case, The Associated Press v. All Headline News Corp., describes itself as "the 'gold standard' of objective journalism." Apparently the AP filed this suit before it devalued its currency.)[snip]
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Stop complaining. Get back to shining my shoes.
The title is in sync with my tagline!
Let them eat cake.
He flew out to Denver to sign the friggin “stimulus” bill.
If you think they behave like rulers now....
Has Flava Flav slept over yet? If he does maybe he can loan that clown Obama his Viking helmet & gigantic clock necklace.
All animals are equal. Its just that some animals are more equal than others.
Every time I see these guys, I envision looking in the window of the big house seeing the pigs drinking brandy with the local glue factory owners. And I am an old horse.
“We do not begrudge the president his fancy cocktail parties. “
I do. Obamachev parties while America dies.
It’s clear he craves the celebrity and trappings of power, but hasn’t a clue what he’s doing.
How much is this costing us?
0bamelot
Perfect!
“How much is this costing us?”
I don’t know what last night’s gala cost us, but CNN reported that at the previous shindig, each serving of beef (Kobi beef) cost $100.
BO can’t decide if he’s Hugo Chavez or Louis XIV.
Obama’s Katrina is looming on the horizon and after it hits he may very well end up like Louis XVI.
It’s a twist on something a fellow FReeper posted in a thread awhile back.
one could only hope...
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