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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This should really please the leftists!!! BAAAWWWAHHHHHHHH
the american taxpayer
No wonder his Administration has no change - he spent it all on the ring.
Guess he didn’t watch Blood Diamond....
Considering that she has been the wage earner for much of their marriage would it not be more truthful to say that BO is using money his wife earned to buy her a gift?
Not very pretty. I wonder how that gold they are using to craft it was mined? Gold and diamonds from slaves working in mines?
It’s his money, let him spend it on what he wants. He isn’t using public funds so I don’t see a problem. As to being a hypocrite, well he’s a liberal so that goes without saying.
You beat me to it!!
I want it sold immediately and the money given to the People! It’s only fair. CHANGEY HOPEY!!
O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma![/sarc][/cynic]
Now if it were a nose ring it might be even better, but ...( lets not go there just yet)
The leftie moonbats are getting their wake up!
We told yah about the "King of Suth Afriga" syndrome Obama has, but y'all voted him in!
Who's crying Now?
Buahahahahah!
Stupid sheeple who elected him have their heads so far up their arses they won't even hear about this overtly inappropriate use of their OUR tax dollars.
Is this satire? Or has it really come to this? Maybe the White House will be on MTV Cribs next.
I hope it turns out that minority child labor does the mining, the mining itself pollutes the water, and Bono is strongly opposed to it.
I asked that question too. Then I remembered something.
Do you have any idea how many STUPID people bought his TWO autobiographies???
That's his wealth in a nutshell.
Man, think of all the sponge baths that ring could have bought for the homeless . . .
I can only laugh about the prize ass America’s put in that office.
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