Presidential Fundraising Trips Leave Taxpayers With Hefty Tab

FOX ^ | 05/27/09 | JUDSON BERGER

[Doogle]

President Obama left Tuesday for a two-day fundraising tour in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. The Democratic National Committee is expected to pick up part of the cost, but if history is any gauge, taxpayers will pick up most of the tab.

[Doogle]

Party Time

[EGPWS]

Take it out of the rainy day petty cash fund at Government Motors.

[Zathras]

So the President of the USA's job description is:
"fly around the world in your private 747 and read from a teleprompter"

[Doogle]

eeeyeah, thats about it

[Crazieman]

You owe me a new monitor.

[bushfamfan]

Not to mention that flying that big ol’ plane isn’t so great for the environment either, is it? But sacrifice is only for the pions and Demonrats do not adhere to any rules or laws they place on everybody else! This is the same punk who had to fly Air Force One from DC to Williamsburg, VA for the importance of a Demonrat retreat and who cranks up the heat in the White House to where “you could grow orchids” in there. FRAUDS and it will catch up to him eventually.

[trumandogz]

The fact that it is expensive for a president to travel is not news.

[hsalaw]

Typical dems - they love spending other people’s money.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

So did the damned ‘coronation’ and everything he’s done since.

[abb]

The fact that it is expensive for a president to travel is not news.

Agreed. But the other side gets to bitch and bellyache about expensive travel when one of ours is President. Shouldn't we be allowed the same luxury?

[Logical me]

It will all be on the tax payer. This will be his permanent job description, party, play, and screw the taxpayer. His only purpose as President is to elevate to the position of permanent leader of the recently created Communist party and his Communist Administration. Wait, now it is more than this Administration but the Senate, House and now soon to be Supreme Court. All hail King Obama.

[maranatha]

does anyone have record compiled on how many places he has travelled since taking office? It seems like he is always somewhere other than the WH. He needs to stay home, hunker down and have some very long meetings with whatever experts he has to figure out what to do with all the hot spots in the world.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Nachum (FReeper) may have them.

[trumandogz]

Actually, this story does touch on the tax payer costs of Presidential travel back in 2002 but I do not recall previously seeing MSM stories on the same issue.

And yes, we should always be made aware of the cost of Presidential travel.

However, we should always expect the president to be protected and simply have to cough up the cash whenever a president wants to jet out to California to raise money or take the limo across town to grab a burger.

[mosesdapoet]

Yea, like the army of 500 that traipsed along with him for that weeks plus stay in England and Europe.

[SunkenCiv]

President Obama left Tuesday for a two-day fundraising tour in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. The Democratic National Committee is expected to pick up part of the cost, but if history is any gauge, taxpayers will pick up most of the tab.

Los Angeles? I thought California was broke?!? /sarc