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OBAMA KEEPS HIS BIG APPLE PLEDGE WOWS FIRST LADY WITH DINNER & B'WAY SHOW
NY Post ^ | May 31, 2009 | CHARLES HURT in DC and STEFANIE COHEN in NY

Posted on 05/31/2009 7:10:21 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

Two martinis, a swank restaurant, a Broadway show President Obama really knows how to treat a First Lady.

"I am taking my wife to New York City because I promised her during the campaign that I would take her to a Broadway show after it was all finished," the president said yesterday after touching down at JFK for an intimate night on the town.

The first couple left their girls, Sasha and Malia, behind at the White House yesterday afternoon, taking two helicopters and a small Air Force jet to make their way to Manhattan.

The Obamas were dressed to the nines -- Michelle in a sleeveless, black cocktail dress adorned with fringe, a pair of low, strappy heels and a turquoise clutch; and the president in a dark suit and white shirt, no tie.

The first stop after touch ing down at JFK was a meal at a low-key, but elegant, Greenwich Village restau rant, Blue Hill, which boasts farm fresh, locally grown dishes.

Obamas were tucked into an out-of-the- way corner table where they enjoyed a multi- course feast specially prepared by the chef. They washed down the fine fare with wine, said a fellow diner, who also no ticed Michelle re laxing with a cou ple of martinis.

Photographers were kept blocks away be hind barri cades for the first couple's privacy.

"We left them alone the entire night," said Blue Hill diner Rachael Levit, of Manhattan. "Nobody asked for autographs or took any pictures. They were laughing and talking and seemed like they had a genuinely good time."

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Then it was up to Broadway, where they had tickets at the Belasco Theatre for "Joe Turner's Come and Gone," a play by August Wilson about a man coming to terms with the history of slavery.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bho44; broadway; hypocrite; nyc; obamafamily; wastingtaxpayermoney
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Nero and Mrs. Nero on date night.

1 posted on 05/31/2009 7:10:21 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount
She looks miserable.
2 posted on 05/31/2009 7:12:16 AM PDT by angcat ("When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe".)
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To: COUNTrecount

Wasn’t there some controversy when the CEO’s of the Big Three flew into Washington DC on their private jets? I don’t believe that was for the purpose of going on a date.
Do as I say not as I do.


3 posted on 05/31/2009 7:12:46 AM PDT by kempster
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To: COUNTrecount
Now there's a happy looking couple.

Shades of Clinton all over again.

Regardless of the blunders President George W. Bush made during his presidency, he always brightened up when in company of his charming wife Laura.

Is that a recent picture of the couple in New York? Zero looks completely unpresidental.

4 posted on 05/31/2009 7:14:24 AM PDT by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier)
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To: kempster
Yes, there are two sets of rules. Those for liberals, and those for everybody else.

If Bush did even a sliver of what Osbama does, like golf 18 on Memorial Day, there would be scathing articles on him.

5 posted on 05/31/2009 7:15:29 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: COUNTrecount

two martinis and wine? she must be a nasty - not a happy- drunk.


6 posted on 05/31/2009 7:15:36 AM PDT by blackminorca
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To: COUNTrecount

“We left them alone the entire night,” said Blue Hill diner Rachael Levit, of Manhattan. “Nobody asked for autographs or took any pictures. They were laughing and talking and seemed like they had a genuinely good time.”

I could have a very good time on less than a million dollars.


7 posted on 05/31/2009 7:15:41 AM PDT by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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To: COUNTrecount

We the people are the only ones that are expected to sacrifice. They all screamed years ago when George Bush would take a legitimate vacation, yet this dope wastes the tax payers money for dinner and a show.


8 posted on 05/31/2009 7:15:55 AM PDT by Long Island Pete (Stupidity is in the DNA of liberals.)
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To: COUNTrecount
..a play by August Wilson about a man coming to terms with the history of slavery.

Naturally. What else is there?

9 posted on 05/31/2009 7:17:08 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: COUNTrecount

So how many of our tax dollars were spent getting Big Zero and Blackie-O up to NYC? And were they buzzing lower Manhattan on the way in?


10 posted on 05/31/2009 7:17:14 AM PDT by OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
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To: COUNTrecount

Who’s tending her Victory Garden at the WH??

Pray for America and Our Troops


11 posted on 05/31/2009 7:17:24 AM PDT by bray (Time to Stand Up)
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To: Northern Yankee

Just imagine the outrage if that were the Bushes instead of the RockHeads.....the economy is in a mess, this idiot has put us in a debt hole so deeeep we’ll never get out of it and he and his partner in crime take two helicopters and a plane to nyc for date night....aaaaah, the hypocrisy is breathtaking.....


12 posted on 05/31/2009 7:17:46 AM PDT by BamaDi (Sessions/Bachmann....my new choice)
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To: COUNTrecount

“...they had tickets at the Belasco Theatre for “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” a play by August Wilson about a man coming to terms with the history of slavery.”

It always has to be about what’s wrong with America, or with race. Guess they are both nostaligic for the good old day’s at Rev Wright’s church.


13 posted on 05/31/2009 7:18:03 AM PDT by silverleaf ("Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal ( Martin Luther King))
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To: COUNTrecount

Wonder what else he promised her (and kids) when the election was over. This could go on for years. Let’s just hope he didn’t promise them queen and princess titles.


14 posted on 05/31/2009 7:18:21 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: COUNTrecount
Michelle went sleeveless again...


15 posted on 05/31/2009 7:18:50 AM PDT by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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To: silverleaf

“It always has to be about what’s wrong with America, or with race.”

...yep, that’s the mantra that gets him the votes from self-hating white liberals....that’s how he turned the ballot into a race card.


16 posted on 05/31/2009 7:21:33 AM PDT by STONEWALLS
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To: Long Island Pete
yet this dope wastes the tax payers money for dinner and a show.

It would have cost less for the entire cast of the show to be brought to the white house for a private show.

And for the price of that dinner, they could have fed 100,000 starving African children for a month.

17 posted on 05/31/2009 7:21:55 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: COUNTrecount

Did anybody tell Michelle that you don’t wear $500.00 sneakers with an evening gown?


18 posted on 05/31/2009 7:23:34 AM PDT by JohnLongIsland
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To: angcat

“She looks miserable.”

So does he. Just goes to show you that a million dollar date, paid for by the American taxpayer, cannot buy happiness! LOL!


19 posted on 05/31/2009 7:24:11 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: silverleaf

Sounds like a depressing play!


20 posted on 05/31/2009 7:24:18 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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