The Obamas Write a $15,000 Check for Haiti Recovery (But Spent $40,000 on Christmas Vacation)

ABC News ^ | Wednesday, January 20, 2010 | Sunlen Miller

[freekitty]

Good grief Michelle has lots more shopping and trips to make.

[A_Former_Democrat]

And one or more years of Bidens’ tax returns showed about $200 in donations.

These people are unreal

[hsalaw]

$15,000? Paltry in light of all the money he’s made on his faux autobiographies and the Nobel Prize, not to mention under-the-table payoffs by the unions. He’s eager to spend trillions of our money, but just $15,000 for Haiti relief? Guess he doesn’t like black people.

[silverleaf]

They did this TODAY?

That’s astounding they waited so long, and gave so little given the First Lady’ wardrobe and restaurant expenditures.

I would bet the Cheney’s and Bush’s have given a lot more, a lot sooner- unpublicized

[silverleaf]

that Nobel money is belt and shoe money for me-shell

[screaminsunshine]

40k on xmas vacation. 0 on presents for their kids. I hear they do not allow xmas presents.

[myknowledge]

And conservatives like us are far more generous in charitable donations than libs.

[Freedom56v2]

yeah and she was spotted wearing a coat worth nearly $4000 :(. Wow

[john mirse]

What the heck? That money comes from the taxpayers anyway.

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Hey, please take it easy on President Obama concerning his $15,000 donation to the Haiti terrible catastrophe.

Remember, President Obama really doesn't have much money to donate to charity for this reason:

As you probably know, President Obama has to save his pennies in order to pay his lawyers who are defending him against those "birthers" who are fighting in court to have President Obama release his 1961 Hawaii long form birth certificate.

At last count, Obama or the Democratic Party has paid over $1 million dollars, and counting, to lawyers to keep the public from looking at Obama's Hawaii long form birth certificate, a birth certificate that would cost Obama about $10 to get a copy from Hawaii.

So please, be nice to Obama and be thankful that Obama was able to come up with $15,000 of his hard-earned money to donate to the Haiti fund, $15,000 that Obama could have used to pay off $1 million fees to his lawyers who are fighting the "birthers" in court case after court case.

[proud_yank]

Well, so what? I mean, I gave $50 for relief in Haiti, but just spent over $1,000 for a week’s vacation. Does that make me a bad person or something? Seems like a fairly generous donation to me.

No, it doesn't. However I have a problem with liberals whining about 'greed' and going on a tirade about how much others should pay for their cause.

I've never met a generous liberal, and certainly never met one as generous with their money as they are with someone else's.

[zorro8987]

Yes it would cost him only $10 to get a copy of his BC from Hawaii, IF that BC exists. If ...

[sten]

really? that’d be interesting. do you have a link to that info?

[john mirse]

Yes it would cost him only $10 to get a copy of his BC from Hawaii, IF that BC exists. If ...

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Scott Brown: Do you think that new Senator Scott Brown would say "no" if we asked him to show us his Massachusetts long form birth certificate? I don't think so.

[blondee123]

That's embarrassing! Are we supposed to be impressed??? LOL LOL LOL

We have sports figures giving 100's of thousands & this clown give 15k????

[Dixie Yooper]

Sorry, I'm still fuming about the $500 I gave to the Katrina mess. I'm also very confident that Obama will commit 10’s of billions of dollars in aid over the next several months. I'll give my donations to the IRS.

[Marty62]

He JUST made it public.

Didn’t he announce his 15k donation?

[Texas resident]

$15,000? What a putz. I’d bet that I have “given” a lot more than that in foreign aid to haiti over the years. Besides, 15 grand is less than he spends on Wednesday party night. Wagu beef is about $1,000 per ounce. Watch for his media to do stories on where exactly his contribution went.