Live long and prosper.
Posted on 12/01/2008 7:36:34 PM PST by dascallie
Barack Obama to buy rare £20,000 gold ring for his wife.
The ring is made of rhodium - the world's most expensive metal --encrusted with diamonds. It is being hastily made by Italian designer Giovanni Bosco in time for January's inauguration ceremony.
Only about 25 tons of rhodium are mined each year, mostly in South Africa, and as a result its price is typically around £5,000 an ounce.
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Michelle tells poor women in Chicago to forego the corporate world and volunteer in the community instead - these people are hypocrites! Annie, Madrid, 30/11/2008
A man of the people - NOT. Ostentatious displays of wealth at a time of recession. ken, london england, 30/11/2008
Fiddling whilst Rome is burning, what a joke. Robert, Sumter USA, 30/11/2008
Americans are losing their savings, their jobs, and their homes. Many can't afford the cost of nutritous food for their families, but Obama can shuck out $20K for a bracelett - that's the way to show "change" and "good for the common man" in America. Chi, London,+UK, 30/11/2008
He's a man of the people all right - a multi millionaire that holds the lower classes in contempt, whilst sticking his wealth in their faces with outrageous purchases. Now theres change you can believe in! Mark, Melbourne, 1/12/2008
He relied on the goodwill of the American People to be elected (ie people used their own funds) so he should be setting an example to the rest of the Americans telling them to save money during the hard times up until the economic situation begins to improve. Let us hope that he does not turn out to be similar to vast majority of other African leaders who happen to be in the 'game' for the sake of personal financial gains nil, London UK, 1/12/2008
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Thanks for the education...gosh oh gee guess I been under a rock...one word for this waste of gems..tacky...
SAy this brings to mind the Inauguration of Slick on his first term...for the ball, the state of Arkansas loaned Hillary a ring that belongs to the state because of a rare yellow diamond. Wonder if it is still in her jewelry box?
Nevermind the ring 0, buy her some decent clothes.
Or should it be phrased "Let them eat pie"?
It seems to me the Obama's were, indeed, taking notes during all of those sermon's delivered by Reverend Wright.
“Can find the rarest metal on earth but can’t find his Birth Certificate?”
POW! That’s priceless!
If a politician plays class warfare game then I fully expect perfection from that politician. It would only be “fair” (Share).
Obama has made somewhere in the neighborhood of $4 million from his book deal with Bertelsman’s US division Random House.
Liberals take care of their own.
Of course the Obamatrons are spending their own money. But the bling is considered by many in bad taste as there is an ongoing financial crisis and recession whose impact is not yet clear.
And of course the Obama’s record like the Bidens shows a woeful lacking in the giving to charity department. (The self-anointed One’s donations to the hate USA church notwithstanding.)
She is a harmful gas.
Many of my sterling silver pieces of jewelry are rhodium plated, so next time you go shopping for sterling jewelry, ask to see pieces that are "anti-tarnish". It's no big deal to find items even at Wal*Mart around $29 plated with rhodium.
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LOL.
How much for the impoverished aunt awaiting deportation and his half brother living in the hut in Kenya? Supposedly, their charitable contributions have been rather light. Mmm. So much for "change" and the class warfare rhetoric. It's good they're not "bitter" losers clinging to guns and God, huh?
i have no problem with what he spends his money on, but i agree it’s hypocricy and you KNOW that everyone would be screaming BLUE MURDER were a republican president or president-elect to buy such an expensive luxury item, in what are being called the toughest economic times in decades. THAT is what gets me.
It is payback. She kept her big mean mouth shut while knowing about that nifty little package named Vera hidden down in the Carribean.
She hid out on 9-11 instead of showing up at Ground Zero.
She stayed out of the way so he could fool everyone handily.
Yep. Cindy's earrings and Sarah's wardrobe. The media is the real problem in this country -- has been for a long time.
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