Michelle O’s stimulus package: $600 earrings
Actually, Michelle Obama has a point here: the $600 stimulus package tax rebate is kind of a gimmick. But she chose a typically Obamesque way of expressing the thought, complete with an implication that taxpayers are wastrels who will just blow their money on luxuries:
“You’re getting $600. What can you do with that? Not to be ungrateful or anything. But maybe it pays down a bill, but it doesn’t pay down every bill every month.
“Barack’s approach is that the short-term quick fix kinda stuff sounds good. And it may even feel good that first month when you get that check. And then you go out and you buy a pair of earrings.”
Have you seen the price of arugula at Whole Foods earrings at Tiffany’s?
Of course NY Times blogger Kate Phillips rushes to set a pick on the blogosphere:
Now, that was a joke. She didn’t come up with a $600 price tag for a single pair of earrings on “The Price is Right” or anything. But watch for her comment, and it’s already been suggested around the Web, to be misconstrued as a bit elitist.
It was just a botched joke, scolds the Times, who knows the Obamas’ true, noble, pure, humble hearts much better than anyone else “around the Web”. You’re just misconstruing. There is NOTHING ELITIST ABOUT THEM! STOP SAYING THAT!
You know, she’s right. I’ll just have a cup of coffee and chill out:
P.S. If Michelle O thinks the rebate was a lame idea, who should we blame?
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{Post by See-Dubya. H/T to Tim Blair.}
P.P.S. We’re moved into a new place in VA, and our stuff is still on its way; thanks for all the kind wishes. Posting from me will still be light, but I’ll be around.
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Have fun in VA, speaking as one that has been forced to live there on two separate occasions, I can tell you this: this only thing that state does right is CCW.
Glad to see you made it in one piece. now the fun of the three year task of unpacking begins.
I just love how when Pres. Bush gave us all those “rebates” a few years ago, the Dems and Liberals everywhere went on ad nauseum about how it was going to bankrupt the Government, how the money was not ours to get, how it was the worst economically bad idea of all time etc.
Then, when it suits them, suddenly they change the name of it to exactly what Pres. Bush said it would do…stimulate the economy…and it was the best thing to ever happen to America.
So Mrs. Messiah thinks the whole thing was a bad idea because someone might have been able to reward themself with a nice toyu, or actually pay off a bill that has been haunting them for quite some time. We used it to make a few car payments.
It must be really nice to be so freaking rich that an amount of $600 of YOUR OWN MONEY that is being returned is so small as to think it will hold no significance to them.
I’m sorry, but ANY amount of money that is being returned, that you had not planned on getting and was extra over your budget, where you can sit and decide whether to be frugal or silly with it, is ALWAYS a welcome event.
Then again, I have not seen a single news article thatshows The Messiahs returning or refusing said “Stimulus” check. In fact, i have not heard of a single person who claims that it was a stupid, bad, ill thought out idea returning or refusing said check.
I guess as long as they still get it, it is just as good to bitch about it as it would be to bitch about not getting it at all.
But hey…they aren’t elitists…just misunderstood.
Oh, I don’t think there has been a misunderstanding. The Obama’s are leftist elistist. No question about it.
Welcome back!
correction!
Well, dang! Why didn’t I think of earrings!
Welcome back, See-Dubya! Virginia, huh? You may or may not be in the South.
Bought a school computer for the kids with part of our rebate…it’s been two months, still feels good. I’ll let you know when I stop feeling good and wish I’d bought those earrings.
I’m already tired of hearing Mrs. O..it’s going to be a long campaign season.
Welcome back see-dubya
Yes my wife and I wasted our stimulus check having her cateracts removed in both eyes, she’s 45 and we just figured what the heck you are blind as a bat why not splurge on something unecessary.
Oh yeah..See-Dubya..welcome to the east coast..I wondered why the air seemed fresher and the birds were singing louder. We’re glad you’re here!
Welcome back, See-Dubya! As a native Virginian, I know that your going to love it. I know that I cannot wait to leave California to the saner coast.
I agree with all of the other posters that the Obama’s are definitely elitist.
Welcome back to the right side of the river. We did the bounce to MD a few years ago and bounced right back to VA.
Of course, we’re apartment dwellers, so the moving is easy.
Ungrateful? Why should we be grateful that you’re giving us back our own money?
It’s like a mugger leaving you five bucks for cab fare and expecting a thank you.
Of course, the Obamas don’t see money as belonging to the people that actually, you know, earned it. To them it’s the rightful property of the state and you should be grateful for whatever they deign to let you keep.
What rebate check-I never saw one? Still, it wouldn’t surprise me to know the Obamas qualified somehow.
WGAF what a Princeton Black Studies major thinks about the economy?
All leftists’ jokes are “botched.” Is there a single lib who can deliver a punchline without flubbing it? Or have two decades of political correctness suffocated in the crib their sense of humor?
$600 is about one month’s pay for a person working minimum wage… which I suspect is a very large portion of the populace.
Is the Obama administration going to use my tax money for an earring bailout to help all the sheeple who followed Michelle Obamasiah’s advice and overextended themselves purchasing unnecessary accessories?
Ungrateful? Why should we be grateful that you’re giving us back our own money?
Wrong Michelle – the government is giving out MY money. I paid a hell of a lot in taxes and I didn’t get back a stinking dime! What about the productive people like me who bust our humps and actually contribute to society? You know, the 10 percent that pay 65.84% of taxes? What about us?
We used part of ours to replace the hot water tank which went out right after the check arrived.
Can you say ‘reality challenged’? Frankly, I thought the New Yorker was pretty accurate with their cover image.
It’s our money, I spent mine on insurance which just seems to keep going up with no limit in sight.
Well Mickey Mouth, for $600 you could BUY A CLUE.
Hell, $600 won’t even get you an audience with the Obamessiah!
You forget something there, Michelle. In Chicago, with 10.25% sales tax (thanks, Chicago Dems!), those earrings are gonna run you $661.50
Well, by sitting in that church for 20 years, she got all the material she needed for botched jokes.
I have a question. Did she use her rebate to illegally buy that automatic weapon she is holding in THE picture? Guns of any kind are illegal where she lives and also where she WANTS to live.
I guess I wasted my check on gas, I want another one so I can get me one of them there gatlin guns.
I know there is a Tiffany’s in Oak Park; is there one on Michigan Ave.? I bought two Burberry scarves with my check. I wouldn’t buy anything from (sniff)Tiffany’s.
What can I say? Even we snobs have a caste system of snobbery.
*sarc*
First of all, there’s no need to be grateful or ungrateful – IT’S MY MONEY. I don’t owe anyone a thanks for taking what’s already mine. If anyone, I should be getting a letter of thanks from the IRS for allowing them to borrow my money.
Second, she says a stimulus check pays only one bill, not every bill, every month? Is she really implying the federal government should be paying our bills every month?
The stimulus checks didn’t stimulate anything in this house, except to eliminate some consumer credit.
Now people, don’t laugh: if it helps Mrs. “O’s” kids to have a mom dressed to the hilt, who’s to complain?
i have never even been in the same room with a $600.00 pair of earrings lol
and congrats on your succesful move to Va,
its a great place but has taken a weird turn the last 10 years.
Interesting how Michelle O. will not be accompanying the Messiah on his whirlwind world tour… Hmmm. Now why would they pass up the opportunity for an “I’m the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris moment” I wonder…
could it be they fear an untimely release of a certain tape decrying the melanin-deprived?
How does that benefit her children?
So the government should be paying every bill every month?
I’ll save mine to pay for the tax increase under an Obama admin! Oh wait a minute. It pays down a tax increase but it won’t pay every but of the tax increase every month.
Cindy McCain is far more wealthy than Michelle Obama. Why don’t you riff on the ten homes they own (and sometimes forget to pay taxes on)? No. Luxuries are OK as long as they’re Republicans who deserve them.
lgm, lgm, lgm…Mrs. McCain didn’t comment on my ’stimulus’ check, but Michelle O. did.
dang it!
There I go again, casting pearls before swine…
ROFL!! Lgm, you tool, you made me spew coffee with that inane comment.
BTW, I looked up non-sequitor in the dictionary and there was your picture next to it.
If Cindy McCain is that much more wealthy than Michelle Obama, how is it that Ms. O wins the, I’m an arrogant elitist contest hands down?
Speakup said (#32):
Because you and Fox News are the judges.
Because Cindy McCain would never say:
1. The rest of us should not pursue careers that pay well
2. That we are mean
3. That we lack empathy
4. That criticism of her will not somehow help her kids
5. She has never been proud of her country until her husband ran for president
6. That a country which people are willing to risk their lives to come here by crossing deserts on foot and oceans in rafts is in need of drastic change, without even bothering to define that change.
That’s why.
I thought it was because Cindy McCain doesn’t tell other people how to live, or how mean they are, or how much more they should be paying in taxes.
lgm,
Do you ever post anything factual?
On July 17th, 2008 at 11:17 am, lgm said:
First Lady Cindy McCain isn’t wagging her finger, chiding me for trying to earn what she has; while Mrs. “O” advocates policies that would make it darn near impossible for me to even make ends meet!
you’re right. the american people ARE the judges of those who are in public service, as well as those would seek to be in said offices.
WOW, you’re not just all crap afterall!
/sarc off
Of course we’re the judges, lgm. Who else would hold public officials to account? it is for “We the People”, or don’t they teach that at your university?
And we don’t go railing Cindy for having 10 homes and so on…because she doesnt act shrill about it, come out and say she isn’t proud of America, and doesn’t put her foot in it every couple of days or so.
If Cindy said the same kind of things MO spouts out of her piehole, you can bank on the fact we’d take her to task to…
but i dont expect you to see, much less note, the difference.
And if they forgot to pay taxes, then yes, take them to task for it as well. If there’s something there, then the law would resolve that issue. Correct?
leastimus giftimus mentalimus, speaks…
…everyone nods in agreement with his timely observation…well, at least many nod…off to sleep…at the constant finger-pointing, whinning, “but…but…Cindy did it, too” ; “Yeah, but Bush…etc., etc., etc.” yammering.
Is it just me, or are his comments REALLY getting old, and predictable? Perhaps, he is using one of the old plays from the liberal playbook. Yeah, that’s it! Play # 3 – “Grind ‘em down until they can take no more, and when they just give up, we win!”
There ya go, buddy. You used the wrong adjective there. Now it makes sense!
Yeah right_on, that makes all the sense in the world !! Keep up the good editing. Democrats can have all the luxuries they want too, as long as they earn them.
Confession – I stole the check from my liberal neighbor’s mailbox and purchased $1200 of carbon credits in their name. I expect them to receive their little car sticker any day now.
OT..
my family just moved to VA this year as well.. (3 months ago)
both enjoying it very much..
I guess once BO is elected I can have all my bills forwarded to Pennsylvania Avenue…? Thanks for picking up the tab Michelle! Mind if I add HBO to my cable?
This was one family that couldn’t blow [the money that is rightfully ours that is returned by the federal govt] on $600 earrings. We put it towards a new roof (although we REALLY wanted to go to Hawaii).
And, memo to the Obamas:
If you have to keep explaining that all your outrageous gaffes were “meant to be a joke” maybe you aren’t that good at telling jokes. Why don’t you just give it a rest already!
That is the funniest friggin’ thing I’ve heard in a loooonnnng time.
Just when you think lgm could be more inane..
whoops, could not be more inane
Well if National Health Care goes into efect she can feel lucky. She’s 45, nearly half her life gone, so NHC will mandate only one eye.
(Sorry, it’s a tasteless joke, apologize to your wife for me.)
Since Fox has been proven to be the most fair and accurate news…truth hurts huh?
Michelle O reportedly has a taste for luxury accessories, e.g. at least one pair of $400 shoes.
Here she reveals a “ghetto fabulous” mentality which is not suitable for a First Lady. If the government ain’t gonna pay all her bills, she’d rather blow the $600 on some “bling”.
A red state got redder and a Blue bluer. I hope you have as much of a blast as I did when I lived in Virginia.
I swear…as far as lgm is concerned, if breathing wasn’t an involuntary reflex action, this moron would suffocate.
So I am sure that you are all up in arms about Cindy saying:
I had no idea that each of the 5,130,000 citizens of AZ had private planes! Talk about a traffic control nightmare!
Waiting for the board to take her to task in
five
four
three
two
one….
Huh? Silence?