Posted on 05/31/2009 6:03:58 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Sure, it’s one of the worst songs ever written. But perhaps President Obama and First Lady Michelle are closet Air Supply fans and are simply “Keeping the Love Alive” by enjoying a date-night in New York City tonight. As we told you earlier, the Obamas are spending a presumably romantic evening together with dinner and a Broadway show this evening in the Big Apple. If the RNC are fans of Air Supply as well, perhaps they believe the Obamas are “Lost in Love” because flying off to New York while the economy is tanking is just not right they say.
“As President Obama prepares to wing into Manhattan’s theater district on Air Force One to take in a Broadway show, GM is preparing to file bankruptcy and families across America continue to struggle to pay their bills,” RNC spokeswoman Gail Gitcho said in an email this afternoon. That’s not all from Gitcho. She then added a snitty, “Have a great Saturday evening — even if you’re not jetting off somewhere at taxpayer expense.”
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“This why guys around here are a bunch of idiot”
Gee you are a very articulate apologist for Obamachev. Seems to me it comes easily for you.
As for me, I resent him using the presidency so that he can act like a billionaire on the taxpayers dime.
I am not here to defend 0. I am here to get some of you whinging crybabies to focus on something real. O spent a couple hundred dollars for dinner and a show in NY. I have spent that much. That he has a staff that has to go wherever he goes is not his fault, and it is just about as expensive to have the President roast marshmallows in the WH fireplace because all of those other things are already paid for anyway. Now, if he pulls a Clinton and shuts down NY air traffic for 1 1/2hrs while he gets a haircut on the runway, then bitch away.
How is he doing that? Is he traveling any differently than Bush or Clinton or the elder Bush or Reagan? I hate to think what it costs the American taxpayer to have a president who breaths. Unfortunately it is even more expensive if he stops. [this is pure and utter satire to convince you idiots that this is not the measure of the quality of the president. Character is what counts, not cost per minute to the taxpayers of the sycophants who hang around]
Try, for once, to stop being a member of the party of losers. Act like there are fundamental principles that this country stands for, and that you are standing for them and challenging key administration policies and proposing different and better policies because it is better for the country. Act like a loyal opposition. Advocate something that matters and that the country would be better off if it were adopted. Force an argument and rational debate over policy choices. Then the policy we end up with might be better because of it.
If the GOP started doing that they would act like they had spine and character and scruples. They would be worthy of respect. One day they might actually find themselves back in power.
You may think that running along nipping at 0's heels like a puppy may be cute and quaint. It won't get conservatives in office.
I'm a conservative and I won't vote for you if that is all you have to say for the world.
This is the philosophy of a loser, a junk yard dog. Conservatism used to stand for something, not this. This is shear opportunism. Wishful thinking is not a plan. Grow up and come back when you have something useful to say about where this country needs to go. And don't tell me how nostalgic you are for the great policies of the guy who just paid his Wall Street buddies $750B.
The GOP is beginning to sound like a bunch of high school kids getting snitty about the dress some other guys date wore. Hardly the kind of adult stuff you expect from someone who wants the job of running the country.
“This is the philosophy of a loser, a junk yard dog”
Andy ..why don’t you run back to Daily Kos and tell them how you posted pro Obama apologies on FR. I’m sure they’ll all clap their flippers for you.
I swear that FR has been taken over by a bunch of high schoolers. What is pro Obama about suggesting that Pubbies grow a spine and engage him in a real policy debate rather than his weekend social life?
“I swear that FR has been taken over by a bunch of high schoolers”
You don’t impress me either. End of discussion.
I wonder what BHO thinks about ALL the makeup his wife is wearing?
The false lashes and tons of pan cake, eye shadow, etc. could be scrapped off with a knife!
I would vote for them. They’re cute. Maybe we can put the dog at treasury.
AndyJackson,
I made all the same points you are making last night on another thread and was also basically called a troll and Obama-lover. You won’t get anywhere with some of these people. The RNC will continue to revel in the trivialities instead of the issues and many here will cheer them on. And we will continue to lose elections.
Michael Steele better pull himself together and start issueing bulletins on Sonja Sotominor instead.
Leni
I'm with you, also. It's crap like this is why I don't vote GOP anymore.
When I hear Reagan or Goldwater again, then they will get my vote
Try defending the 4th Amendment or suggesting that $750B to Paulson's friends on Wall street is not exactly in the spirit of economic freedom. I am a socialist, communist, 0-troll, troll from Kos, kiddie who lost his way from DU. What would bother me is if someone thought they had constructed more than an ad hominem to defend getting sidetrack by a night seeing a Broadway show.
Even if it is a viper's den of liberalism? Conservatives don't like to have a good time. /s/
My head is plenty hard. Maybe if I butt theirs enough some fresh air and sunshine will seep in and the little gray cells will start to function.
But the dinner date shows a disconnect with the American people,who are being asked to tighten their belts,while the President and First Lady go galivanting around on a whim.It’s one thing to use air Force One for governmental business,it’s another to waste it on a date.
“The issue that the GOP needs to go after right now is figuring out what, after Bush/Cheney, the GOP actually stands for. After no child left behind, the creation of the world’s most incompetent bureaucracy, gov care for drug companies, reducing education to the lowest common denominator, obsessive compulsive security behavior at home while letting insurgents set the time manner and place of battle in Iraq, etc. etc., bailing out democratic donors on Wall Street to the tune of $750B, the GOP needs to figure out just where it wants this country to go.”
I agree - and had the majority of the population not been so ANGRY with Bush and his 8 years, they would have voted FOR McCain rather than AGAINST Bush’s party. The approval ratings for Bush told the tale in the end. A vote FOR Obama was, at least for some, a vote AGAINST the Rebublican party in general.
"Judge Sotomayor is off limits from criticism."
Signed,
GOP Senate and the RNC
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