Obama’s “Date Night” Cost The Taxpayers $73,000

Proof • June 1, 2009

Wonderful.
Not that I care all that much about the cost. This country has a lot bigger spending problems to face than Presidential travel. And, to a certain extent, this is one of the perks of the job. All Presidents traveled for personal pleasure, and being the President means having an entourage and a security detail everywhere you go. It’s unavoidable.
What I’m much more worried about is the carbon footprint. After all, Obama wants to tax carbon emissions and regulate where our thermostats are set and what sort of vehicles we drive all in the name of thwarting what he believes will be a global warming apocalypse, yet he can whisk his wife away to New York on a gas-guzzling jet (not to mention a gas-guzzling helicopter) for a date?
Obama tells me I have to change my lifestyle and sacrifice for the greater good while he’s busy flying down to New York for some fine dining and theater.
If you ask me, this little move by Obama should kill his cap and trade legislation. If global warming isn’t enough of a threat to get Obama to change his lifestyle, then why should it be enough to justify regulating every part of my lifestyle?

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compared to my president, it’s still so so
Frank C

You are right on. In your calculations don’t forget that the Presidential Limo clies in an Air Force C130 that costs $6960 according to a Governemtn Reform and Oversight Minority Staff report prepared for Rep. Henry Waxman. This date night was taken by a President who last week told Steve Scully of CSPAN “we are out of money.”
http://www.myspace.com/thekingscourt4u Gman

16,000 Americans lose their jobs every day of the Obama Depression and Barry spends $73,000 on a dinner date.

I hope for all that tax money, he at least sealed the deal.
Hannitized

And there is no other way for Obama to travel, and nobody expects him to quit dating his wife.

No other way to travel, cheaply, that is.
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

obama wouldn’t need so much expensive security if the right wing wasn’t making so many threats against his life.

Nearly all of the leaders murdered in this country were from the left or had done something to piss off the right (think-ending slavery, etc).

As we saw this past weekend, conservatives make us all less safe.
jimmypop

As we saw this past weekend, conservatives make us all less safe.

grat point…never mind the unibomber and timmy mac…. lets not even get into robby ryrd or teddy k.

oh, did you see this? your side is on a roll!
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/two_soldiers_shot_outside_a_recruiting_center_in_arkansas/
Hannitized

Wonderful.

Not that I care all that much about the cost.

Uhhh……yeah. That’s why the title of this post is based totally on what it cost.

Your such a duplicitous ass-wipe Rob.

And there is no other way for Obama to travel, and nobody expects him to quit dating his wife.

Don’t be an ass.
SigFan

If global warming isn’t enough of a threat to get Obama to change his lifestyle, then why should it be enough to justify regulating every part of my lifestyle?

Because he’s Obama, and you’re not? I do take exception to his saying the other day that we (the country) are already out of money and then going out and blowing a family of four income for one night of fun. If he wants to spend his own money, then fine, but using taxpayer dollars for a flagrant boondoggle is just rubbing everyone’s face in it.
pparets

(think-ending slavery, etc).

Oh! You mean Lincoln… the first Republican president!!??

While the democrats split into two pro-slavery factions?

Hahahahahahahahaha! God, you’re stupid, Dino.
jimmypop

this guy needs to be more like other liberal leaders and hire a hooker. im guessing it would be way cheaper.
http://www.sayanythingblog.com/ electnixon

Fortunately nobody is asking you…

Buzz, if you’re not interested in what Rob has to say, what the hell are you doing on this blog, other than trolling?
2Keyboards

Really, Dino? You did know that Lincoln was a Republican, right?

As for the cost of this “date”, he could have done without the third helicopter transporting the press. And the price tag? Is 3 TIMES the salary my husband makes right now. (He’s currently looking for more work).
theuber

I just have to butt in here and clear something up.

While Dino’s comment was unfounded, and Lincoln was indeed the first republican president, Lincoln was what we would consider Left-wing today. The party ideologies switched early in the twentieth century, near the end of the Progressive Era. Democrats were the conservative party until the Woodrow Wilson administration responded to the public’s growing desire for liberal policy (as given to them by other Republican president Teddy R.).
andophiroxia

Arecibo:

Welcome to the board, and yes, Dino is as much of a retarded misanthrope of what he shows himself to be. In fact, many of our trolls are this. They show their true colors quite quickly.
Headward

Obama wanted this position. He should foot the bill or atleast be taxed on the value like any other person in the US. This was clearly not business related.
Mickey

Arecibo

Welcome to SAB. Dino is an ass clown with nothing to offer. And to answer your question, yes he is everything you think he is.
Buzz

If you ask me,

Fortunately nobody is asking you, and none of your opinions or the opinions of the other extremists here amount to a hill of beans. You are down to 15% of the voting base, and going lower.

It is fun to watch you guys frantically trying to keep your heads above water though.

Can we look forward to a third post on this subject today?
Craig

I think the estimate is extremely low. Try $500,000 to $1M!

Marine one from white house to Andrews Air Force Base.
Private jet for them, secret service, aides & reporters
Cargo planes to carry the presidential motorcade
Shutting down new york’s streets
All the hours of everyone’s time planning the trip
All this just to get to New York and he still hasn’t been on the date yet!

What a hypocrit & so is the American Press!
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Arecibo,

Yes, I’ve noticed your post before, notably the avatar of the way-cool NAIC.

Like anywhere, technology can be your friend. I prefer to screen out posts by Dino and found that I have lost nothing by that choice. Check out SUITEPOTATO’s sigline for the app to screen out Dino’s posts.

And then, Enjoy the Silence.
Stefanie Hartman

That’s just so great to know. Especially since my family of 6 just tried to go to a show where we won tickets. We could barely afford parking, 2 other tickets, food, tips and more just to be in NYC. I saw the big to do all over the tv. I want my tax money back for that – I want to spend it on my children!!!!!!!!
Mickey

16,000 Americans lose their jobs every day of the Obama Depression and Barry spends $73,000 on a dinner date.

Priceless elitism.

The next election has a shitload of good commercial material from this ass clown.
http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

Hope and Cha ching change!
ProudinNC

Sounds low to me, considering the price of jet fuel for three aircraft plus helos.

And you are correct Rob, shows poor form doing something like this when asking others to cut back their thermostats and make sacrifices.
Canadian Ex-Pat

Obama is going to have to raise taxes just to pay for his date nights, never mind the trillions in hand outs, bailouts, etc. I paid over 60K in taxes last year, and Obama blew that and more in one night. Do you think most Americans pay 60K in taxes each year? I don’t.
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DINO, what is it with you? You continue to push this idea of only “right wing nutjobs” as the only ones to fear in society; who will kill; etc.

Are you really this foolish? Ignorant? I hate to bring the argument to base like this, but honestly you are not earning any respect. You can argue and disagree, but have some class and pinache.

I would say that you must know enough about history to know that the statements you make along these lines are quite untrue, but you are a leftist. This requires cognitive dissonance.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

Since when do we expect rock stars to practice what they preach?
http://www.rabidamerican.net/ Rabid American

Good thing we’ve been admonished to sacrifice……..

I guess they just want us to live vicariously through their “antics”…………..

Yeah, That’s it!

IMPEACH THIS A$$HOLE!
NOW!!
Bodhi

Yet another example of how politicians are out of touch with reality.
http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

Arecibo, Dino is a) a troll, b) insane, and c) evil and sadistic.

He’s joked about ejaculating in a young boy’s mouth.

He’s stated that cops deserve to be shot.

He’s more than once stated his desire to see the USA and its people destroyed or reduced to abject poverty and suffering.

He’s stated that sex between adult men and underage boys is entirely understandable and a normal part of homosexual culture.

He constantly states his desire to see conservatives rounded up and put into concentration camps including their children.

Read his stuff and you get the point. He’s a troll. Arguing with him is pointless because he is leftism taken to its ridiculous extreme: hateful, demented, deluded, and existing only for its own emotional needs and nothing else. Utterly bereft of reason or imperative, Dino simply is killing time until time kills him.
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