Hope and Change or smug arrogance?
According to TMZ.com and other reports, Barack Obama and his wife Michelle caught a private jet to New York last night to see a Broadway play before grabbing a bite to eat at an upscale West Village restaurant.
The only problem, Barack critics say, is that it’s the American taxpayers who footed the bill for the private planes that shuttled the Obamas back and forth (Air Force One got the night off). Obama sprung for the theater tix out of his own pocket.
Well, isn’t that nice of Obama? You know, to spring for the Broadway tickets and all, while stiffing American taxpayers for the cost of the pilots, jet fuel, extra staff and Secret Service agents — just so he could watch a Broadway play!
Meanwhile, GM is filing bankruptcy and shutting down 11 plants, thus throwing thousands of auto workers out of work and onto the unemployment line. This, at a time when unemployment figures are skyrocketing through the roof!
I hope the Obamas enjoyed their play.
Sandra have you stopped living your life due to the economy? I know I haven’t!
Team Obama’s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!?
Unfortunately Auntie…I know you are…SIGH!!!
they should have seen it via satelite to keep the peace!
Who pays for ANY President’s vacation while they are in office … i’ll wait …. ….
I’m not an Obama fan nor would I ever care to be president. However, anyone in that position deserves to splurge on date night. Besides, the taxpayers pay for Air Force One and security whether they stay at home or fly to NYC.
Did they visit Prince Harry?!?!
I hope they enjoyed themselves. It is good to see my tax dollars being used to support love between a heterosexual black couple. Shout out to the Obamas.
Sidebar: President Obama, can you pardon me on the $4,000 that I owe on last years taxes?
I don’t think they met up w/ the prince. They were only here one nite….lol
We’ve been paying for the presidents vacation forever, whats the prob.
@Attymom I owe more than that from 05/06 on a payment plan no tax return again this yr *sighs*
Sandra this is what presidents do honey. Did you expect them to live in the projects and never have a night out because we are in a recession? Should he have less of a life than any other president? NOT.
Team Obama..YES!
Good for them i hope they had a nice time in the city, i bet the play will pick up in sales and the restaurant also since they went there.
SOMEBODY got a short memory. cause the bush crew (senior and the epic failure named junior…aka “dubya”) BOTH stayed maine’d up. kennebunkport MAINE that is….who the hail paid for them to be in MAINE every time we turned around when both were president!? even when old man bush was vice president?
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Kennebunkport is known as the location of the summer home of former U.S. president George H. W. Bush, father of former U.S. president George W. Bush….has been owned by Bush since shortly after he became Vice President in the 1980s. During his presidency, Bush often invited world leaders, from Margaret Thatcher to Mikhail Gorbachev, to Kennebunkport. In 2007, his son George W. Bush invited Vladimir Putin and Nicolas Sarkozy.
then both of them tried to play it off as WORK by inviting world leaders to the vacation spot. chile please….
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yeah the president of us is a piblic office we/us citzen pay for everything like we also pay for city employees (cops etc) nothing new here
sandra, stop hatin’!
so what , they opted to not use the money that was available to them and every president to not upgrade the white house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What did you expect them to do hop on Air Trans!!!
So, Obama is supposed to work 24/7? I mean, does anyone ELSE stay home and not go out to dinner/playa/movies, etc… becuase of the economy? If you do, you’re better than me.
Until I CAN’T afford to do any of this, I will. I work hard for my little money and when I can enjoy myself, I do and will. I expect no less from Obama.
I hope him and the Michelle had a wonderful time. And Obama can’t go anywhere w/out Secret Service – he said he would have gladly rode a train/trolley/shuttle if he had been allowed to do so.
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Hey Airtran has Wi Fi now..lol