The $74,000 Obama date we paid for....

[-Cp]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1189893/How-Obamas-romantic-120-trip-Broadway-racked-45-000-bill.html

Fyi…. £45,000 = $74,000 – Can anyone think of a good reason why the Obama’s didn’t just pay for this themselves?


...that's for three private jets, two helicopter rides, extra planes for security and closing roads for motorcade

It was a campaign pledge that Barack Obama didn't dare break - a promise to take his wife out for dinner and a show once the election was over.

So on the weekend he booked a babysitter, asked Michelle to put on a little black dress and swept her off for a date.

He had also paid £60 apiece for two tickets to Joe Turner's Come And Gone, a play about a man coming to terms with the history of slavery.

As a little extra, he shelled out for two martinis to toast his first five months in the White House.

Overall, not too extravagant, and few would begrudge the hard-working couple such a treat.

Unfortunately, there were one or two other bills to settle at the end of the night.

Read the rest at the link above...

The President picked up the tab for a meal at a low-key restaurant, Blue Hill, that specialises in locally grown dishes.

[Mr. P]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1189893/How-Obamas-romantic-120-trip-Broadway-racked-45-000-bill.html

Fyi…. £45,000 = $74,000 – Can anyone think of a good reason why the Obama’s didn’t just pay for this themselves?


...that's for three private jets, two helicopter rides, extra planes for security and closing roads for motorcade

It was a campaign pledge that Barack Obama didn't dare break - a promise to take his wife out for dinner and a show once the election was over.

So on the weekend he booked a babysitter, asked Michelle to put on a little black dress and swept her off for a date.

He had also paid £60 apiece for two tickets to Joe Turner's Come And Gone, a play about a man coming to terms with the history of slavery.

As a little extra, he shelled out for two martinis to toast his first five months in the White House.

Overall, not too extravagant, and few would begrudge the hard-working couple such a treat.

Unfortunately, there were one or two other bills to settle at the end of the night.

Read the rest at the link above...

The President picked up the tab for a meal at a low-key restaurant, Blue Hill, that specialises in locally grown dishes.

It goes with the job no big deal. Now if it was every weekend I'd have an issue.

[mundame]

Let's not be mean. A president is not a prisoner and we can afford it.


What we canNOT afford is an assassination. So never mind the security costs.

[-Cp]

It goes with the job no big deal. Now if it was every weekend I'd have an issue.

A personal date "goes with the job"? Since when?

[Mr. P]

Let's not be mean. A president is not a prisoner and we can afford it.


What we canNOT afford is an assassination. So never mind the security costs.

Mean? Hell mundame, it's plain asinine to attempt to make this an issue.

[Mr. P]

A personal date "goes with the job"? Since when?

Since when? Since we foot the travel bill including security for every POTUS that's since when.

How much do you think it cost for a flight to Crawford TX? How many were there? Get over it CP, you ain't got a case. :laugh2:

[emmett]

I got to take issue with you on this one P....if we are going to pay for everything the man does....why do we pay him a salary then?

Who paid the baby sitter?

[Mr. P]

I got to take issue with you on this one P....if we are going to pay for everything the man does....why do we pay him a salary then?

Who paid the baby sitter?

Donno..maybe the same folks that paid for the sitter during JFK's day?

We pay em and give em perks..security isn't a perk however.

What did it cost us when W was reading to Fla school kids on 9/11?
Should we have paid that bill?
No, It's part of the office and job of course..

A lil date is part of life. Hey what if he went out alone? We can't expect the POTUS to be a hermit.

[Joe Steel]

It goes with the job no big deal.

That's it exactly.

We expect the President to make public appearances and it's even more important now. Giving the appearance of normalcy will calm the economic fears of the public.

[red states rule]

Actually, it seems Obama's date cost around $250,000 - and the White House will not talk about it

So much for "transparency"


CURL: The cost of a NYC weekend

In another odd twist left unexamined by the media, the White House on Monday said it simply would not release the cost of President Obama's weekend jaunt to New York City, where the First Couple had dinner and caught a Broadway show.

Spokesman Robert Gibbs, keeping the White House press corps in stiches, as he always does, said the Obamas would have preferred using a commercial airline shuttle to New York and back, but the Secret Service would not allow such unprotected travel (ba da bing).

And that was that. No further probing; asked and answered; time to move on.

There was, of course, an ironic element of the trip. In February, Obama scolded corporate executives (while also costing Las Vegas some $130 million) when he said: "You can't get corporate jets. You can't go take a trip to Las Vegas, or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers' dime."

But the Chief Executive (Oval) Officer had made a promise to his good wife that after the campaign, they'd take in a Broadway show, and darn it, he meant to keep that promise.

One early estimate (from the New York Post) put the cost at $24,000. Absurdly low. The Daily Mail in London threw out another number — $75,000. Sure, three times as much as the first estimate, but still probably spectacularly low. Remember, joyriding Air Force One around for a few hours over Manhattan a couple months ago cost $250,000, so the cost of the weekend trip was likely not likely that low.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/01/curl-cost-nyc-weekend/

[red states rule]

That's it exactly.

We expect the President to make public appearances and it's even more important now. Giving the appearance of normalcy will calm the economic fears of the public.

If we are to buy your spin Joe, we must forget how Obama has said over and over how bad the economy is. How we are on the verge of another Depression. How we the people need to "tighten our belts". And how we the people need to make sacrifices

When a liberal talks about sacrifice it means he/she wants us to pay more in taxes so there will be more money for them spend on their nights out and high living

[red states rule]

I got to take issue with you on this one P....if we are going to pay for everything the man does....why do we pay him a salary then?

Who paid the baby sitter?

If McCain would have won the election, and he took his wife Cindy to NYC on a date - the NY Times headline would be "McCain To The Unemployed - Drop Dead"

At least Obama, Reid, and Pelosi are open when it comes to their extravagant spending. Lucky for him they are Democrats so the liberal media lets them get away with it.

[GW in Ohio]

I got to take issue with you on this one P....if we are going to pay for everything the man does....why do we pay him a salary then?

Who paid the baby sitter?

Is this what the GOP has come to? Quibbling over chicken-shit stuff like this?

As someone has pointed out, every time President Bush decided he needed to go down to Crawford to clear some brush, it cost about the same amount to transport his security detail down there and put them up and feed them.

[red states rule]

Is this what the GOP has come to? Quibbling over chicken-shit stuff like this?

As someone has pointed out, every time President Bush decided he needed to go down to Crawford to clear some brush, it cost about the same amount to transport his security detail down there and put them up and feed them.

Why is it whenever Obama is nailed for his double standards, his supporters have to fall on on Pres Bush? I thought Obama would be diffwerent and brign change?

Only arrogrant libs would not think that a date with his wife at the cost of as much as $250,000 of taxpayer money would not receive criticism during a major recession where unemployment is at 30 year highs

[GW in Ohio]

Why is it whenever Obama is nailed for his double standards, his supporters have to fall on on Pres Bush? I thought Obama would be diffwerent and brign change?

Only arrogrant libs would not think that a date with his wife at the cost of as much as $250,000 of taxpayer money would not receive criticism during a major recession where unemployment is at 30 year highs

I'll agree with you in principle, that the president should be setting an example for the rest of the country, and in tough times like these, with people out of work, he should be setting an example of frugality.

[red states rule]

I'll agree with you in principle, that the president should be setting an example for the rest of the country, and in tough times like these, with people out of work, he should be setting an example of frugality.

He has set an example GW

1) Reocrd amount spent on his Inauguration

2) $100/pd steak dinners during an ice storm where many people died

3) Having Earth Wind and Fire perform at the WH

4) Orders pizza and has it delivered 800 miles

5) The NY city photo op

Yep, Obama has set an example. He could not care less how much taxpayer moeny he spend on himself while telling us we need to cut back and brace for more bad economioc news