Posted on 05/22/2010 4:29:34 PM PDT by Dinah Lord
At a time when the unemployment rate stands at 9.9 percent, when jobs are still being lost, when worries about the global economy are causing breathtaking volatility on Wall Street, when millions of Americans who still have jobs are worrying more than ever about the safety of their retirement savings at a time when all that is going on, the Obama White House has turned itself into a showcase of glitzy extravagance.
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R&B diva Beyonce topped the entertainment bill for the dinner, taking place in the East Room of the White House, with the action later moving to a luxury marquee on the South Lawn of the presidential mansion. The marquee, the size of two-thirds of a football field, decked out in elaborate black decor and nightclub-style lighting, featured a stage and baskets of flowers and models of Monarch butterflies dangling from the ceiling.
It was a scene the most ostentatious party-giver would have envied: the White House turned into a luxurious, high-dollar nightclub. (Club 1600, perhaps?)
The Marxist elitists don’t mind “feeling” our “pain”, they just don’t want their lives to be affected by it.
Shades of Nero’s parties in the gardens of the Vatican.
Are those Tijuana Trolleys, I wonder????
” . . .FLOTUS bust a move.”
So come on fatso and bust a move
Google it.
"Let them eat corn tortillas"
No, they are local to DC.
This reminds me of the mentality that we see when we’re driving along and pass a shack with a shiny new Cadillac out front and a satellite dish on the roof.
"U.S. exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study"
"Obama admin exempted BPs Gulf drilling from environmental impact study "
"Obama sheltered BP's Deepwater Horizon rig from regulatory requirement"
"Red Flags Were Ignored Aboard Doomed Rig "
"US allowed drilling 'without required permits"
To our UnCola Prez I say...
Rodrigo y Gabriela perform during the State Dinner reception for President Felipe Calderón of Mexico and his wife, Mrs. Margarita Zavala, in a tent on the South Lawn of the White House, May 19, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Rodrigo y Gabriela look like they just crawled across the border to perform, don't they? (Sheesh. You think they could have at least wore a new pair of jeans.)
I thought it was FWOTUS.
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