[Arguendo]

Who cares? $30k seems like a lot, but it really isn’t that much for someone of Obama’s income. It’s probably easier for someone who makes $1 million or so to sacrifice $30k for a ring than for someone who makes $100k to sacrifice $3k, and most of us probably wouldn’t consider it excessive for a normal guy to spend $3k on his wife.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

The problem is buying a precious metal from the slave trade mines of South Africa, which is almost too funny to write.

And he bought this from an Italian designer - not American.

He could buy her all the jewelry he wants if he had the sense to buy American made -

[romanesq]

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.)