Obama’s New York “date” may have cost $400,000. Hope he got laid.

June 3, 2009, 3:00 am · 16 comments

"Oh, Barack, is that the Washington Monument in your pocket or are you just happy to see me."

"Oh, Barack, is that the Washington Monument in your pocket or are you just happy to see me."

The self-proclaimed “most transparent administration in history” announced on Monday that it would release no information regarding the cost of President Obama’s “date” in New York. Just won’t do it.

The administration’s policy seems to be summed up in these nine words: “Love to talk more. Just no time. Gotta go.”

The New York Post guestimated that the trip cost $24,000. The London Daily Mail put the figure at $75,000. But the Washington Times did additional research and came up with a far higher number: $400,000.

Their figure includes three helicopters that shuttled the First Couple to and from Andrews Air Force Base and all the air and ground personnel associated with that move. It includes the corporate jets that flew the Obamas and the ones that flew decoy duty. It includes a previously unmentioned C-17 cargo jet that flew all the cars for the President’s motorcade to New York and back. It included hundreds of additional Washington, DC and NYC policemen. It included the vast crew of Secret Service people who had to check the New York locations out in advance and also be there during the date.

We’re not sure what happened to the Obamas at the end of the date, but we’re pretty sure the taxpayers got screwed.

Source: Washington Times

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Dee Mac June 3, 2009, 5:45 am at 5:45 am

So yesterday I had to deal with the mental image of the Dear Leader’s paperdolls, and couldn’t eat breakfast. Today, it is the post date speculation, again, passing on breakfast. What will I have to endure tomorrow? The Dear Leader’s See and Say for preschoolers? Possible sayings “I have spent all of your Money,” “Don’t get a job; Volunteer,” “ACORN will help you vote correctly if we still have elections when you turn 18,” and my personal favorite, “President for Life!”

Between the marketing for this clown and the headlines proclaiming his arrogance and ignorance, I should finally lose those nasty extra 10 pounds!

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wes June 3, 2009, 6:54 am at 6:54 am

yep, just let the press keep throwing those two in our face everyday. . .
sooner or later the honeymoon will end. with everything this administration is doing, AF1 fly-overs of NY , college drop-out in charge of GM, Iran has a right to nuclear power (but we don’t) this is looking more and more like a very expensive remake of “Dumb and Dumber”.

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Administrator June 3, 2009, 7:14 am at 7:14 am

Over at the Huffington posted they’ve posted over 4,700 mostly drooling comments on the photos of The Two on their date.

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guy June 3, 2009, 8:31 am at 8:31 am

And Bush’s 77 trips to his ranch were all free i guess?

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Editor June 3, 2009, 12:54 pm at 12:54 pm

Huge difference. Bush’s trips were to his HOME in Crawford, Texas. It was a fully-functional substitute for the White House. We’re not aware of President Bush taking Laura on any date night extravaganzas on the taxpayers’ dime. If he did, we would have been equally tough on him.

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Administrator June 3, 2009, 12:58 pm at 12:58 pm

Beat me to it, Editor.

And he certainly did not do it while we suffered in the depths of a recession such as this, while the rest of us are tightening our belts.

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Harry Brown June 4, 2009, 10:54 pm at 10:54 pm

Nothing about the Bush administration was fully functional, least of all George Bush.
Or are we still pretending?

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wes June 3, 2009, 1:58 pm at 1:58 pm

I also noticed that zero has no problem playing golf – Bush quit playing golf while we had troops on the battlefield.
How about the fact that in a country that is overwhelmingly Christian (85+%)
we are no longer a Christian nation (with a secular government, of course).Now, according to zero, a little over 2 million muslims now makes us a huge muslim country?
Hey lefties, you’ve all been had and the rest of us will have to pay along with you for your folly.

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Harry Brown June 4, 2009, 11:04 pm at 11:04 pm

Actually, the founding fathers were careful not to allow this to be a Christian Nation. You are no doubt confusing the generic term God that can have many meanings with what you imagine to be it’s only meaning.
And if you check on Bush’s golf game you will find he was less than honest about this too.
I know: Don’t confuse you with the facts, your mind is made up.

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Patriot-7 June 3, 2009, 7:38 pm at 7:38 pm

Oh man, I think I got a visual…yuck! I wonder if she Bows to him before they…you know.

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wes June 5, 2009, 6:58 am at 6:58 am

Harry,
You repeat the fabrication of the revisionist left. The founders were careful
that we did not have a state supported national church. Every citizen was free to belong to the denomination of his/her choice. The fear was a state church that suppressed all others as happened in England. It amazes me that the arguments made by the left ignore the realities of the time. Virtually every one of the founders, save 2 , were devout christians. The two “deists”
actually attended numerous demoninational churches. So ignore their personal writings and statements and continue to cling to the revisionist view that is divorced from reality.

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Harry Brown June 5, 2009, 7:54 am at 7:54 am

I agree that the Founders were Christian. http://www.adherents.com/gov/Founding_Fathers_Religion.html
But you must note the stark insistance on real freedom of religion.
But things degrade over time:
The Pledge of Allegiance was created in 1892 and did not have the words “under God” added until 1954 almost 200 years after the birth of the U.S.
“In God We Trust” was added in 1864. On a two cent coin. In 1957 it was added to paper money. It replaced “E Pluribus Unum” (From Many, One) adopted by the Union in 1782. This bold concept of many states joined in a union was a real reminder of the fragile union that binds them. But God gradually won the day and real concepts lost to superstition.
Men act as if they chose their religion. They take it as important and a personal paradigm.
The reality is that our religion or lack thereof is an accident of birth or social events. Who would study all religions to make an intelligent choice of “The Best, Most True Religion?” None would be chosen if the study were extensive. Religion – all manmade and less than valuable.
Nowhere do we see the spontaneous generation of Christians, Muslims, Jews or Buddists. Why not?
The ‘choice’ is an accident of birth with all those choices equally serious to those enthralled by wildly divergent precepts.
When we first look up into the night sky and see 50,000,000 million year old light it should awaken us to the meaninglessness of our johnny come lately religion. When we find that 99.9% of all species are extinct it should make us aware that we too will be gone shortly and we should be very serious about our caretaker role on the planet.
Mother Nature will not miss the most destructive species that ever lived.

Some notes from the founding Fathers:

“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.” – Thomas Paine (The Age of Reason, 1794-1795.)
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of… Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all.”- Thomas Paine (The Age of Reason, 1794-1795.)

“Question with boldness even the existence of a god.” – Thomas Jefferson (letter to Peter Carr, 10 August 1787)
“Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error
all over the earth.” – Thomas Jefferson (Notes on Virginia, 1782; from George Seldes, ed., The Great Quotations, Secaucus, New Jersey: Citadel Press, 1983, p. 363.)

“During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.” – James Madison (Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments, 1785.)
“In no instance have . . . the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.”
“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.” James Madison, April 1, 1774

“Where do we find a precept in the Bible for Creeds, Confessions, Doctrines and Oaths, and whole carloads of other trumpery that we find religion encumbered with in these days?” – John Adams
“As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Musselmen; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.” – (Treaty of Tripoli, 1797 – signed by President John Adams.)

“When a Religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its Professors are obliged to call for help of the Civil Power, it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.” – Benjamin Franklin (from a letter to Richard Price, October 9, 1780;)

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Jim Beattie March 2, 2010, 6:24 am at 6:24 am

Add the $$ 30 million + spent flying Peelosi back and forth to california!!

Add the 2nd plane to Copenhagen because she couldnt wait one day and fly on the 747 with nobama burning a gallon of fuel a SECOND!! Not to mention the Giant contingent of lawmakers and their wives that flew over there-slept in $300 a night hotels and wined and dined on taxpayers $$ to shore up THE
LARGEST WASTE OF $$ that ever existed -Gorey Als Global Warming snafu

Add the 747 + the fighter fly over NYC

Add the 747 coming to pick him up to take him from MD. to Williamsburg VA, a 2 hour drive cost the taxpayers 23000 gallons of jet fuel- an ignorant waste of $$

The 747 is hangared in Omaha Nebraska and has to come over (2 of them) to take him anywhere.

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Jim Beattie March 2, 2010, 1:40 pm at 1:40 pm

Terrific Article on Obama ! ! !
Article from the Wall Street Journal Form by Eddie Sessions:

“I have this theory about Barack Obama. I think he’s led a kind of
make-believe life in which money was provided and doors were opened because
at some point early on somebody or some group took a look at this tall, good
looking, half-white, half-black, young man with an exotic African/Muslim
name and concluded he could be guided toward a life in politics where his
facile speaking skills could even put him in the White House.

In a very real way, he has been a young man in a very big hurry. Who else do
you know has written two memoirs before the age of 45? “Dreams of My Father”
was published in 1995 when he was only 34 years old. The “Audacity of Hope”
followed in 2006. If, indeed, he did write them himself. There are some who
think that his mentor and friend, Bill Ayers, a man who calls himself a
“communist with a small ‘c’” was the real author.

His political skills consisted of rarely voting on anything that might be
deemed controversial.. He went from a legislator in the Illinois legislature
to the Senator from that state because he had the good fortune of having
Mayor Daley’s formidable political machine at his disposal.

He was in the U.S.. Senate so briefly that his bid for the presidency was
either an act of astonishing self-confidence or part of some greater game
plan that had been determined before he first stepped foot in the Capital.
How, many must wonder, was he selected to be a 2004 keynote speaker at the
Democrat convention that nominated John Kerry when virtually no one had ever
even heard of him before?

He outmaneuvered Hillary Clinton in primaries. He took Iowa by storm. A
charming young man, an anomaly in the state with a very small black
population, he oozed “cool” in a place where agriculture was the antithesis
of cool. He dazzled the locals. And he had an army of volunteers drawn to a
charisma that hid any real substance.

And then he had the great good fortune of having the Republicans select one
of the most inept candidates for the presidency since Bob Dole. And then
John McCain did something crazy. He picked Sarah Palin, an unknown female
governor from the very distant state of Alaska . It was a ticket that was
reminiscent of 1984’s Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro and they went
down to defeat.

The mainstream political media fell in love with him. It was a schoolgirl
crush with febrile commentators like Chris Mathews swooning then and now
over the man. The venom directed against McCain and, in particular, Palin,
was extraordinary.

Now, nearly a full year into his first term, all of those gilded years
leading up to the White House have left him unprepared to be President. Left
to his own instincts, he has a talent for saying the wrong thing at the
wrong time. It swiftly became a joke that he could not deliver even the
briefest of statements without the ever-present Tele-Prompters.

Far worse, however, is his capacity to want to “wish away” some terrible
realities, not the least of which is the Islamist intention to destroy
America and enslave the West. Any student of history knows how swiftly Islam
initially spread. It knocked on the doors of Europe , having gained a
foothold in Spain ..

The great crowds that greeted him at home or on his campaign “world tour”
were no substitute for having even the slightest grasp of history and the
reality of a world filled with really bad people with really bad intentions.

Oddly and perhaps even inevitably, his political experience, a cakewalk, has
positioned him to destroy the Democrat Party’s hold on power in Congress
because in the end it was never about the Party. It was always about his
communist ideology, learned at an early age from family, mentors, college
professors, and extreme leftist friends and colleagues.

Obama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Boston police
officer who arrested an “obstreperous” Harvard professor-friend, but would
warn Americans against “jumping to conclusions” about a mass murderer at
Fort Hood who shouted “Allahu Akbar.” The absurdity of that was lost on no
one. He has since compounded this by calling the Christmas bomber “an
isolated extremist” only to have to admit a day or two later that he was
part of an al Qaeda plot.

He is a man who could strive to close down our detention facility at
Guantanamo even though those released were known to have returned to the
battlefield against America .. He could even instruct his Attorney General to
afford the perpetrator of 9/11 a civil trial when no one else would ever
even consider such an obscenity. And he is a man who could wait three days
before having anything to say about the perpetrator of yet another terrorist
attack on Americans and then have to elaborate on his remarks the following
day because his first statement was so lame.

The pattern repeats itself. He either blames any problem on the Bush
administration or he naively seeks to wish away the truth.

Knock, knock. Anyone home? Anyone there? Barack Obama exists only as the
sock puppet of his handlers, of the people who have maneuvered and
manufactured this pathetic individual’s life.

When anyone else would quickly and easily produce a birth certificate, this
man has spent over a million dollars to deny access to his. Most other
documents, the paper trail we all leave in our wake, have been sequestered
from review. He has lived a make-believe life whose true facts remain
hidden.

We laugh at the ventriloquist’s dummy, but what do you do when the dummy is
President of the United States of America ?”

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Jim Beattie March 4, 2010, 12:43 pm at 12:43 pm

That’s right! I will say it, “THANK GOD FOR BARACK OBAMA”
He destroyed the Clinton political machine – Driving a stake thru the heart of Hillary’s Presidential aspirations – something no Republican was ever able to do. Remember when a Hillary Presidency scared the daylights out of you?
He killed off the Kennedy dynasty – No more Kennedys trolling Washington looking for booze and women wanting rides home. American women and Freedom are safer tonight!
He is destroying the Democratic Party before our eyes!
Dennis Moore had never lost a race – quit!
Evan Bayh had never lost a race – quit!
Byron Dorgan – had never lost a race – quit!
Harry Reid – bid for re-election doesn’t look good!
These are just a handful of the Democrats whose political careers Obama has destroyed! By the end of 2010, dozens more will be gone! In December of 2008, the Democrats were on the rise. In the last two election cycles they had picked up 14 senate seats and 52 house seats. The press was touting the death of the Conservative Movement and the Republican Party. In one year, Obama put a stop to all of this and will probably give the House, if not the Senate, back to the Republicans.
He has completely exposed liberals and progressives for what they are. Every generation has to relearn why they should never actually put liberals in charge. He is bringing home the lesson very well!
Liberals tax, borrow, and spend –
Liberals won’t bring themselves to protect America –

Liberals want to take over the economy –
Liberals think they know what is best for everyone –

Liberals aren’t happy till they are running YOUR life –
He has brought more Americans back to Conservatism
Since Regan
In one year, he rejuvenated the Conservative movement and mobilized millions of freedom loving Americans. Name one other time in your life when you’ve seen your friends and neighbors this interested in taking back America! In all honesty, one year ago I was more afraid than I had ever been in my life. Not of the economy, but of the direction our country was going. I thought Americans had forgotten what this country was all about. My neighbors, friends, and strangers proved to me that my lack of confidence in the greatness and wisdom of the American people was flat out wrong.
When the American People wake up, no smooth talking teleprompter reader can fool them!
Barack Obama has awakened these great Americans.
Thank God for Barack Obama!

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connor March 4, 2010, 2:25 pm at 2:25 pm

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