Posted on 12/23/2009 8:06:14 PM PST by kristinn
Barack Obama will be spending ten days over Christmas and New Year's at a $8.9 million estate in Hawaii at a rate of at least $4000 per night, according to ABC News. Obama spent last Christmas there as well when he was president-elect.
As the American people are still caught in the grips of the recession with unemployment running from 10% to 16% and the federal budget blown out with Obama's massive deficit spending, Obama is living like a king with no criticism from the mainstream media.
ABC describes the estate with no mention of the incongruence of Obama's extravagance with the wrecked Christmases of tens of millions of Americans one year in to his failing presidency:
The Obamas' rental property is 7,000 square feet of paradise on the southeastern coast of the island, complete with large open spaces built around a lagoon pool.
...It's also not cheap. Staying in this $8.9 million house, which Zimel has dubbed the "Obama Winter White House," will cost around $4,000 a night. The two houses next door will be occupied by Obama family members and friends.
While ABC News ignores Obama's 'Let them eat cake' attitude, the New York Daily News flat out lies for Obama on his self-indulgent Christmas:
With so many Americans hurting, the White House is smart enough to know that they don’t want to flaunt their good fortunes on those who are without...The First Family heads to Hawaii tomorrow for a well-deserved tropical Christmas.
It's good to be the king!
Who is paying for it? Nadhmi Auchi?
Have they buried granny yet?
Why the hell does he not go to his real home in Chicago
“Let them eat cake.”
Does anyone have any pictures of this humble hideaway?
Yep, two weeks ago I spent the week in Arlington, across the river from the Kremlin on the Potomac. Ain’t no recession goin’ on there! On the last day I saw the article in USA Today about the salaries of federal employees. I don’t know how I kept my head from exploding...
Let him stay there for his whole term—cheaper by far to house him there than the economic disaster he creates with his socialistic experiments here stateside.
“My Kennebunkport is on the South Side of Chicago. Our friends are here. Our family is here. We are going to try to come back here as often as possible ... at least once every six weeks or couple months.”
Barack H. Obama, 2008
It’s hopeless - the media would have critized Bush if he stayed at a Motel 6 for Christmas. “Times are hard; shouldn’t he have camped in a tent with the homeless people?”
And imagine if they found a Bush hotel bill showing room service caviar and lobster - it would have been bigger than Palin’s “ClothesGate”, and we would still be hearing about it to this day...
Saudi’s are paying for it. Their loyal servant is doing a good job in Amerika!
“Let them eat dirt.”
How doest dare deny thy royal king a happy abode in the warm, sunshine of the fair distant islands of the sea.
“Let them eat yellow snow.”
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The author of the NY Daily News blog item referenced brags on how the Obamsky’s buy their gifts online rather than disrupting the malls—this is the same Obamsky that told someone when he was running that his family doesn’t exchange gifts. Now they do. Now they don’t. Now they do. Now they don’t.
Whatever line of bull the Agenda requires the MSM happily delivers.
Ha ha! Good one. Thanks for the memory. I think he’s been to the house once. Valentine’s weekend-President’s Day holiday when the stimulus bill that was bull-rushed through Congress collected dust on his desk in the Oval Office when he took a ‘much deserved’ long romantic weekend with Michelle less than a month in office.
He’s riding for a BIG fall.........
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