Obama: Complaints About Date Night "Annoyed" Me

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Obama: Complaints About Date Night "Annoyed" Me

Posted by Brian Montopoli

President Obama doesn't have a lot of patience for those who he says turn date night with his wife into a "political issue."

In an interview with the New York Times Magazine for a story on "The First Marriage," Mr. Obama said it "annoyed" him that he was criticized for flying to New York last spring to see a Broadway play and have dinner with his wife. Critics complained that the president was using public money to pay for the trip.

"If I weren't president, I would be happy to catch the shuttle with my wife to take her to a Broadway show, as I had promised her during the campaign, and there would be no fuss and no muss and no photographers," he said. "That would please me greatly."

"The notion that I just couldn't take my wife out on a date without it being a political issue was not something I was happy with," he added, later echoing a reporter's comment that "everything becomes political" in the White House.

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oh boo hoo..........

[a fool in paradise]

Wednesday Night Concert Nights also annoy me. Can’t this guy draw a crowd without a “free concert” by big name stars?

[wiggen]

then tell secret service to stand down and make the trip.

[y6162]

I got a letter printed in the NY Post complaining about the Kenyan’s double standard. He had just told business that the days of jetting off to Vegas are over.

[Carling]

Poor little Marxist. Perhaps he’ll get over it with some Kobe steak tonight while his constituents eat scraps from a garbage can.

[swain_forkbeard]

Yeah, really. If you don’t WANT to be the POTUS, you don’t have to be.

[Newtoidaho]

More whining from the whiny little titty baby

[Common Sense 101]

Your existence in the White House annoys me on a biblical scale... POS whining pansy.

[Common Sense 101]

Your existence in the White House annoys me on a biblical scale... POS whining pansy.

[TChris]

Waaaaaaah!

Don't ask for any ACCOUNTABILITY from me! That's RACIST!

Waaaaaaah!

What a juvenile.

[Vision]

he added, later echoing a reporter's comment that "everything becomes political" in the White House.

Smartest man in the world don't ya know.

[Maverick68]

obama, you are a petty little bitch...

[Kakaze]

You are, for a brief moment, the president...........EVERYTHING YOU DO IS POLITICAL.

[Godwin1]

This guy is so self-absorbed. EVERYTHING is all about him. Ten percent of the country is without work and, with Obama’s cap and trade over the horizon, most have no chance of ever finding work. Our best young people are fighting and dying in Islamic hellholes. And he thinks it appropriate to spend more than a million dollars for a “date night.” A real, first class, elitist jerk.

[Buck W.]

Perhaps he and Michelle should just be happy with secret nooners that are closed to the press.

[MrB]

Sounds like Bammy doesn’t like how the “big boy pants” fit him.

[goodnesswins]

YOU make EVERYTHING political you smarmy little peoen of a community organizer....it’s just that now your “community” is bigger, and you’re being watched more, and from ALL sides...where IS that BC, by the way?

[KarlInOhio]

"If I weren't president, I would be happy to catch the shuttle with my wife to take her to a Broadway show, as I had promised her during the campaign, and there would be no fuss and no muss and no photographers," he said. "That would please me greatly."

I would be happy if you weren't president and could fly whereever you wanted... well except for the fact that the president has criticized people and companies for flying for pleasure (which has killed Las Vegas's conference business) and wants to jack up energy taxes to keep the little people down on the farm.

[usmcobra]

The democrat had just spent eight years ripping into everything President Bush said or did and Obama is annoyed when he is held to a faction of the same standard.

[Cheetahcat]

Fine then take the Wookie out on your own dime then you worthless Ghetto race baiter.