Barack Flies Michelle To New York For “Date Night”

Your tax dollars hard at work.

President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama landed in New York City late Saturday afternoon for a Manhattan date night that was to include a Broadway show.
A spokesman read a statement from Obama: “I am taking my wife to New York City because I promised her during the campaign that I would take her to a Broadway show after it was all finished.
The president traveled in a smaller, Gulfstream-type plane rather than the larger planes typically used as Air Force One.
The Republican National Committee slammed the outing in an “RNC Research Piece”: “As President Obama prepares to wing into Manhattan’s theater district on Air Force One to take in a Broadway show, GM is preparing to file bankruptcy and families across America continue to struggle to pay their bills. … Have a great Saturday evening – even if you’re not jetting off somewhere at taxpayer expense. … PUTTING ON A SHOW: Obamas Wing Into The City For An Evening Out While Another Iconic American Company Prepares For Bankruptcy.”

I wouldn’t have such a problem with this, except that Obama’s the guy who is regulating what kind of cars we can drive for the sake of global warming. He’s going to put a carbon tax on us in the form of cap and trade. He said on the campaign trail that Americans can’t just set their thermostats wherever they want. Obama and his fellow liberals want to regulate just about every aspect of our lives, all in the name of the “climate change crisis.”
Yet, Obama can hop on a private jet and take his on a “date night”? I’m told that I have to sacrifice, but it’s all private jets and jets and luxury lifestyles for Obama and the rest of the liberal elite?
Maybe the rest of us should believe that global warming is the crisis Obama and his fellow liberals want us to believe it is when they start living their lives like it’s a crisis.
And yes, I get it. He’s the President. He can’t go anywhere without private transportation and an entourage. But surely a President as concerned about climate change as Obama would sacrifice things like “date night” given what he’s asking Americans in general to sacrifice.

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  • http://Array studakota

    Just a N—r doing what they do best, throwing your money down the drains.

  • exceller

    face it, this guy is a big spender. In fact the biggest in history. Most expensive campaign by FAR, most expensive innagural by FAR, most spending plans/biggest deficits by FAR. There is no doubt that his presidency is the most costly to maintain as well with all his traveling and fundraising, party nights at the White House, date nights etc. Not to mention his bloated staff. How many czars do we have now? six or seven? I lost count.

    But the rest of us are asked to keep the thermostat down, drive puny cars, live within our means. My date night is pizza and a movie rental. While Dear Leader jets off to NYC. Actions speak louder than words, if the climate is truly going to be ruined any time now by carbon emmisions, requiring all of us to pay thousands more in taxes, how in the hell can you justify this “Date Night” carbon disaster? What a fraud.

  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    I wouldn’t have such a problem with this, except that Obama’s the guy who is regulating what kind of cars we can drive for the sake of global warming. He’s going to put a carbon tax on us in the form of cap and trade.

    I can’t imagine the carbon foot print that he left from Washington to NYC.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    No, he was just encouraging us to buy houses we couldn’t afford.

  • http://www.kenmccracken.blogspot.com/ Ken McCracken

    And who, or what is stopping you from taking your man on a flight to New York, go to Manhattan and also catch a Broadway show?

    Not having pet taxpayers to pay for it.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    What pettiness. Over-the-top pettiness.

    How many times did we fly bush to his “ranch” to clear brush?

    Pathetic.

  • tothestars2

    No, he was just encouraging us to buy houses we couldn’t afford.

    wrong again dinko. that was your buttbuddy barney and his gang of demos that orchastrated that fiasco.

  • http://verizonwireless.com/ ND in MD

    Let’s see…a fund raising trip to Nevada and California this week and now a trip to the Big Apple for a date with the wife – Barry sure is racking up the frequent flyer miles this week. Must be ice to have a dredit card where others pick up the tab.

  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    I think it is funny that we are living in a time of deep finaical trouble and the president is galivanting around pissing our money away. What is wrong with staying in D.C.?

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    There is a difference between flying Bush to Texas for a few days versus flying up to New York for an evening.

    Aside from all of the other fatal character flaws these guys have, they remind me of the Beverly Hillbillies jetting around just because they can.

  • arianne

    had to go to ny he could not let the prince have one up on him

  • jimmypop

    how many poor people did barry just kill to get laid?

  • ellinas

    My date night is pizza and a movie rental. While Dear Leader jets off to NYC.
    exceller on May 30, 2009 at 05:23 pm

    And who, or what is stopping you from taking your man on a flight to New York, go to Manhattan and also catch a Broadway show?

  • Lioncourt

    I wouldn’t have such a problem with this, except that Obama’s the guy who is regulating what kind of cars we can drive for the sake of global warming.

    Yes you would because this is just petty snark.

  • Hannitized

    And yes, I get it. He’s the President. He can’t go anywhere without private transportation and an entourage. But surely a President as concerned about climate change as Obama would sacrifice things like “date night” given what he’s asking Americans in general to sacrifice.

    Over the top pettiness.

    I for one am glad to see out president show the importance of loving your wife and keeping promises to them and keeping the romance alive.

    Perhaps if he continues he will avoid being frumpy and starting wars for no reason?

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    And you’re a bunch of petty cranks.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    How many times did we fly bush to his “ranch” to clear brush?

    That would be equivalent to Obama flying back to Chicago…which he has done, not New York.

    No, he was just encouraging us to buy houses we couldn’t afford.

    Your pointless delusions know no bounds, Dino!

  • http://forums.kikizo.com/ Eddie_the_Hated

    I think it’s sweet personally.

    He’s not going to convince anybody who isn’t already with his AGW rhetoric to begin with.

  • ellinas

    What is wrong with staying in D.C.?
    goon on May 30, 2009 at 04:30 pm

    No Manhattan, no Broadway.

  • ellinas

    And who, or what is stopping you from taking your man on a flight to New York, go to Manhattan and also catch a Broadway show?
    ellinas on May 30, 2009 at 08:55 pm

    I didn’t say anyone was stopping me.
    exceller on May 30, 2009 at 09:35 pm

    Then do it and don’t worry about what other people are telling you.
    Plus you are a cheap date.):

  • FlybyKnight

    Limited, Constitutional Government = The President would not be afraid to go somewhere without a small military escort.

    It’s 2009. The President is always going to have to travel with protection, no matter how limited the government gets.

  • ellinas

    how many poor people did barry just kill to get laid?
    jimmypop on May 30, 2009 at 09:39 pm

    About 2,000,000!
    Don’t forget sex makes the world a better place!

  • Buzz

    we have a president that thinks he can just fly to NYC to see a play on the tax payers dime

    And flying to texas every weekend is different how? And have to fly in all his staff, to the ranch so he can ride his horse. And all the infrastructure I had to pay for so he could have a “command center” at the ranch. All so fuck stick could wear his wranglers and a work shirt for the week end.

  • Mickey

    Rumor has it Obama once had a gay lover. Maybe the Broadway show was his idea.

  • http://tarheelred.wordpress.com/ pino

    Just a N—r doing what they do best,

    Poor form.

  • Jayne Carroll

    As I wonder if I can make my mortgage payment, feed the family, make a car payment etc.. I also wonder if my husband who took a partial layoff to keep his job as well as if my job will be here tommorrow in depressed Ohio I need a date with my husband too. But guess what no taxpayer money for me.. It is all going to bail out coporations and fly obama nd wife to New York.. Must be nice. I know “he understands how we Americans feel”.. Right and I believe in Santa..

  • ellinas

    Not having pet taxpayers to pay for it.

    Ken McCracken on May 30, 2009 at 09:26 pm

    Shame on you for not being able to find some suckers to pay! /sarcasm

  • exceller

    And who, or what is stopping you from taking your man on a flight to New York, go to Manhattan and also catch a Broadway show?
    ellinas on May 30, 2009 at 08:55 pm

    I didn’t say anyone was stopping me. I’m implying that it is hypocritical to indulge that way when he is talking about others having to sacrifice. We’re told the ice is melting and our cities are going to be under water and that we have to drive small cars and pay higher taxes and go green, etc, etc. Yet at the same time you find the frauds like Obama and Gore that do nothing but talk about what others need to do.

    I couldn’t care less what he does for date night or how big his carbon footprint is. But he should practice what he preaches if he is going to makes demands of others.

  • studakota

    He had to do it to keep peace in his family. Michelle has been asking too many questions as to where “The One” was , and who he was with, the morning Air Force One went flying over New York City for that Photo Op. Most Wives, including the First Lady, wonder what is going on when they discover their husband is not in bed with them, or an adjoinning bed, at the time she discovers, later, a strange occurance involving her husbands plane, has taken place. The night out in NYC, and having her Mother put on payroll as Director of Protocol, of course, should suffice as penance. That is also, perhaps, as good as any explanation for the, bizarre, gaffes that keep popping up around the President lately.

  • exceller

    Yes you would because this is just petty snark.
    Lioncourt on May 30, 2009 at 10:00 pm

    He can’t have it both ways. He says we’re broke and that we have to do something about deficit spending, and he says if we don’t take action on the climate now that there will be catastrophic effects on the planet. He said that corporate executives of companies that took TARP money were wasting taxpayer money when they used corporate jets. If that’s the case then he is a hypocrite for spending over $100,000 of taxpayer money and burning fuel for a jet and two helicopters so that he can take in a dinner and a show. How is that setting an example? How is he showing that he’s serious on the issues?
    He’s a fraud like all liberal democrats who want to define how others should live but maintain different choices for themselves.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    I’ll bet he was banging the shit out of that big ass on the way there. You go Barack! In fact I think I see a little spooge running down her leg there.

    Stay classy, Buzz!

    they remind me of the Beverly Hillbillies jetting around just because they can.

    Au contraire, Whistler!
    Jed used his own money!

  • jimmypop

    We have a winner folks, Barry O aka NOBAMA is running around in air force 1 telling people they must sacrifice and give up stuff and that small cars and homes are nice for the enviornment and then we have a president that thinks he can just fly to NYC to see a play on the tax payers dime. It’s bullshit and hypocritical.

    i can hear gore in his mansion laughing at the libby sheep right now. i think he counting all his money.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    True to form.

  • Brent

    Limited, Constitutional Government = The President would not be afraid to go somewhere without a small military escort.

  • Hannitized

    He’s one of yours Rob.

    You see that PP?

  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    I didn’t say anyone was stopping me. I’m implying that it is hypocritical to indulge that way when he is talking about others having to sacrifice. We’re told the ice is melting and our cities are going to be under water and that we have to drive small cars and pay higher taxes and go green, etc, etc. Yet at the same time you find the frauds like Obama and Gore that do nothing but talk about what others need to do.

    We have a winner folks, Barry O aka NOBAMA is running around in air force 1 telling people they must sacrifice and give up stuff and that small cars and homes are nice for the enviornment and then we have a president that thinks he can just fly to NYC to see a play on the tax payers dime. It’s bullshit and hypocritical.

  • Buzz

    Where is my spell checking bitch when I need it?

  • Buzz

    I’ll bet he was banging the shit out of that big ass on the way there. You go Barack! In fact I think I see a little spooge running down her leg there.

  • http://insanereindeer.blogspot.com/ Kenny
    No, he was just encouraging us to buy houses we couldn’t afford.

    Your pointless delusions know no bounds, Dino!

    Actually, for once, Dino is right. Bush did make increased minority home ownership a priority. And he did push for federal help to make it happen. He was part of the problem.

  • http://www.kenmccracken.blogspot.com/ Ken McCracken

    Heh, you’re right!

    I’m in the wrong racket.

  • Buzz

    Is that your old buddy Petraus with Barrak? He is still your buddy right? Even after the whole “Cheney is a torturing piece of shit, that make us less safe” thing.

    Petraus 2012!!!

  • sayanything-4625

    So when Zero flies an “empty” Airforce 1 up to New York to take a picture wasting tons of money that’s OK? When he jets up to NY to have date night, that’s OK? Zero himself said that our level of spending was unsustainable but he can spend tons of money on this frivolous crap! Wow you guys are hypocrites.

  • http://wizbangblog.com/ Jay Tea

    Think strategically, people.

    Time Obama spends planning these outings and actually doing them is time he is not actively fucking up the country.

    Plus, it relaxes him, keeps him healthier, and keeps Joe Biden that heartbeat away from the Oval Office.

    We should be encouraging him to do this every night.

    J.

  • robert108

    We flew Michelle on that booty call.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    How many times did we fly bush to his “ranch” to clear brush?

    Well, President Bush wasn’t exactly telling us what cars to drive in an effort to ward off a climate change apocalypse now, was he?

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