“This party atmosphere sends the wrong message”
The Obama cocktail party-and-conga line bonanza is coming under scrutiny:
An organization that serves as a watchdog on the U.S. government for American taxpayers has launched a campaign to uncover exactly how much tax money is being spent on parties at the Obama White House.
The president has shown a penchant for lavish galas, such as the huge assembly orchestrated in Denver when he accepted his party’s nomination for president – an outdoor gathering for some 75,000 featuring a stage with Greek columns. He also held a multimillion-dollar victory celebration in Chicago, and his fancy inauguration cost an estimated $170 million, according to ABC News.
Now, Larry Klayman, founder of Freedom Watch, told WND today he’s seeking information about the partying in the White House since the Obamas moved in…
…Klayman said the reports of the partying at the White House, “with the likes of Steve Wonder and other high priced entertainment stars,” will be the focus of document requests being submitted to the General Services Administration. The requests will seek to determine how much taxpayer money is being used.
“Barack and Michelle Obama have been throwing taxpayer funded parties nearly every night with their ‘friends’ and supporters, with Michelle Obama even exhorting them not to ‘break’ White House property,” Klayman’s announcement said.
“This party atmosphere sends the wrong message to the American people. As the Obama-Clinton crowd party on, the American people are suffering greatly,” Klayman said.
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“Party on, Joe.”
“Party on, Barry.”
“Think the stock market will go up next week, Barry?’
“Yeah, and monkeys might fly out my butt!”
Wouldn’t drinking Mogen David wine offend muslims?
More like Boone’s Farm.
x
Yikes! ABC News reporting Obama declaring US is losing in Afghanistan, plans to reach out to the Taliban for talks. We will soon be openly negotiating with terrorists. God help us.
Hey if you can’t trust the Taliban, who can you trust? Right?
Welcome back Carter! After all, there is nothing more endearing to our enemies than to show weakness. No wait! I misspoke! There is nothing more provocative to our enemies than to show weakness.
How did that work in those South-side Chicago ‘hoods Obama organized in his prior career as community organizer? Aren’t they suffering through a monstrous wave of killings?
Oh, well. I suppose being organized counts for something. Afghanistan will now be an organized killing field.
What a mamby-pamby buffoon.
RetFireman – I have finally picked my jaw up off the floor from watching your link……..
I came away with the take that he is insulting hussein and his followers in a BIG WAY. That said, it’s stupefying to see what some people are listening to at their churches without batting an eye. The woman in the background seemed to be taking notes and none of the men changed their expressions at all. Clearly they’ve heard ‘sermons’ like that before… UN-REAL……..
Pasedena – I only wish you’d saying, ‘Jus kidding!’, but I know you aren’t. It’s just what I’d expect from him.
Bill Ayers will be a consultant.
Geez. Now I wish he’d just stay in the WH and party.
Joy. Here is the part that really annoys me. It’s a tactic Obama uses when being criticized by conservatives:
See my problem? He uses “began under Bush” to respond to conservative criticisms. Do you ever hear any RINOs call him on it? No. The GOP is still being led by Hannitized RINOs who also use “Republican” and “conservative” interchangeably.
It is a very important distinction to make because it cuts to the heart of the problem we conservatives have with the GOP. We better start making this distinction soon if we hope to take these tax protests all the way.
This GOP is stupefyingly lame. Conservatives must either seize control of the GOP soon or else unite behind a new party.
Just George and Louise movin on up and settin an example for all the little people.
I’m all for a Federalist Party following the Jefersonian and Adams view of the role of the Federal Govt.
Leave the Royal Family alone.
We will just have to throw them out and take our government back. Simple.
For formal occasions yes, of course the good stuff.
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Keep the change-I’ll keep my guns
You forgot the “/sarc” tag… if it were that simple, we wouldn’t be in this mess to begin with.
Pasedena – You will never see me call myself a Republican. I haven’t in quite some time. I am a conservative and yes, the two are quite different.
As to seizing conrol, there aren’t enough true conservatives left to seize anything. I don’t see much unity on the right at this point although action is finally awakening. And not enough people see the real danger in what is happening. To most it appears to be nothing but a blip on the radar and all will be okay soon. Just politics.
I keep asking the question, and haven’t seen a response yet, and I’m sure many think me totally out there for even asking… but I’ll ask again.
At what precise point in time should the Germans have recognized the evil and stopped Hitler? And how? Hindsight is 20/20, but hindsight is also too late. Only time will tell if I’m an alarmist lunatic or not.
Joy-
I don’t think you are an alarmist or a lunitic. I would say realist. If we don’t do something immediately to take back our county, all will be lost. Let us look to the Constitution and our Founding Fathers and “show some sack” so to speak. We need to stand up against tyranny.
Actually it was about $566K for two sets: one private and one for state functions. The existing china was Clinton-era and due for replacement. It was funded privately by the White House Historical Association Acquisition Trust. See Leaving the White House.
Joy:
The Rev. was being hyper-critical of Der Fuhrer and of his followers. He has been taking a great deal of heat for pointing out the obvious. It seems that the community of Obama apologists and supporters cannot stand to have a mirror placed in front of them and being shown for who and what they are.
All thepeople who are even attempting to bring up President Bush as a comparison to what Der Fuhrer is doing are dong nothing more than, once again, demonstrating their deep ignorance as to what the truth of the matter was about the Bush Administration as well as what their false god and Lady MacBeth are doing.
Just what kinds of friends and supporters do they have where Lady MacBeth needs to beg them not to damage items in the White House?
It is clear that Der Fuhrer and his power-hungry bride have absolutely no respect for this country, it’s history or it’s people, but are the people they surround themselves with really just that stupid and careless and ignorant as to how to act, what to do and how to respect the White House, what it means, what it symbolizes throughout the world and just how valuable and priceless as well as irreplaceable the things in the White House are?
Just how ghetto are these parties?
Do these imbeciles who are still deluded enough to apologize for and make excuses for these two Shakespearean characters occupying the People’s House really believe that they should be throwing extravagant parties every single night on the tax payers dime? Do they really believe that Bush did anything even remotely close to what they are doing? Do they even know just how few State Dinners Bush even had during the eight years he was President?
My God…the millions and millions of dollars this buffoon has spent on himself and his wife since he usurped the office is breaking records, and is so obnoxious that even the media is noticing and mentioning it. Does anyone really believe for one nano-second that he has done a damn thing to warrant a single solitary party, let alone one every night?
And are people really so stupid as to believe he does not drink at these things when there was a picture on this very site this morning showing him holding up an enormous glass of wine?
While this country is supposedly so hideously bad off and having the hardest time since 1929 (you may have to look up that date to know what I am referring to, LGM) these people are partying like they are some French Monarch from the 18th Century.
Well, we all know what happened to those monarchs, don’t we? Looks like yet again, the Liberals are showing an incredible ignorance when it comes to history and learning from it.
How much longer will these amateurs at the helm of this country be allowed to get away with this?
This all can end rather quickly, if the courts would enforce the Constitution and force him to provide his actual birth certificate. Not the BS “live birth” garbage he showed on his site, but the actual birth certificate that he flew all the way to Hawaii under the lie of visiting his dying grandmother (without bringing his daughters, I might add, so they could say their good-byes) to seal and hide from the public. And having shown it, arresting each and every person with knowledge of the fraud he committed against this country. THAT would be justice served.
Every single President has their very own China pattern. They have all picked out a new one that is used for official dinners and such.
Anyone who is carrying on about the Bush’s having one is only showing they don’t really know what they are talking about.
The China is then put in the archives. It really is not that difficult to look it up. Why, I would be willing to bet with just a couple of seconds on Google, you can find what every President’s patterns looked like dating way, waaaay back.
Awww heck…I took 15 seconds out of my life and did the work for you.
If you are an alarmist and/or a lunatic, then so am I. However, the reality is, we aren’t. They should have recognized and stopped him after reading “Mein Kampf” In that book, Hitler told the world EXACTLY what it was he had planned for Germany, the Jews and the entire world.
So, just when should they have stopped Obama and Lady MacBeth? In 1995, right after they read his first “auto”-biography that had been ghost written by an unrepentant, admitted terrorist.
It still is not too late, but unfortunately it will be very, very messy.
I am glad to hear someone is calling them on all these parties. It make me upset when i found out that B. Hussiein Obama was telling us to cut back and then had the gall to turn the heat up to 75 in the white house. Could he not put on a sweater like the rest of us? He seems to think that he can say one thing and do another.
That is the very definition of “Liberal”…not to mention the Politburo
So, I guess they plan to party like it’s 1984.
Unfortunately, history when taught (or if taught) is usually a memorization of dates/events, not the why. Jeff Shara(sp?) opened my mind with his psych-histories of the Revolution and Civil Wars (both of which, I admit [and I apologize to the long suffering Mrs. Sims of the GCHS History Dept] hating to learn about). Read these and Samuel Adam to understand what the founding fathers went through to give us what we have, a noble experiment of man. I think the GOP as a party of political influence is dead as the acronym as been so damaged that it may never be able to recover. I repeat my earlier post, that what is needed is a new party built around the core of the founding fathers beliefs of limited federal government, a revision of the tax code – perhaps a national sales tax to replace the current (though that will throw gobs of accountants and tax lawyers onto the pile of the unemployed).
Ret, I worship at your philosophical altar!
You make exquisite sense and make me laugh out loud at the same time.
I bet you do it without teleprompters too!
Now that the Obama’s are enjoying the ‘spoils of victory’, can’t we let them afford a trainer to work on Michelle’s bottom half? Compared to her ‘toned’ arms, her booty needs some serious work-out time!
Maybe Obama likes her that way…..
Baby got back.
Bottom line is – this bunch are hypocritical clowns, lacking principles, common sense and morals. Like spoiled children, not raised up right.
Now we know why he had all those Roman columns at his acceptance speech in Denver.Obama is the modern day Nero.
Savage24 – and a heaping load of self-important.
The Obamas are acting like a young, poor couple who just inherited a paid-off residence, refinanced and are on a spending spree, behaving like they have never had any cents.
Obama, hussein and the bitter one, have turned the White House into a bad Eddie Murphy/Belushi/Moms Mabley ‘B’ movie with out the humor.
The entire obamanation with barry leading is an EMBARRASSMENT to the country. All past presidents must be rolling over in their graves with fear and anger at this insolence.
At the risk of sounding RAAACCCIIISSST… This WH is beginning to look like a scene from TRADING PLACES… The one in which MURPHY invites the whole bar to his NEW DIGS… “Whose been puttin’ their COALS out on my flo’???
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This was in USA today. Now we know who’s actually running the country – N. Pelosi and her deputy H. Reid – and O-BUM-A is just the puppet in a string.
That is really dumb. The bill hasn’t passed yet, but will, on HIS watch. The spending will be during HIS administration (and also the administrations of our grandchildren and great-grandchildren). He needs to veto it until the earmarks come off. What a stinking liar! And yes, he is a pelosi puppet, no doubt about it!
The KBPOTUS just a string puppet for pelosi and reid? I think you doth insult the string puppets too much-I doth think he’s more of muppet from the Childrens Television Workshop! (Zoe being the more approbiate one!)
GSP
“This is Sparta!”
Dimsdale-
Go back to MM past posts for some other Retfireman’s philosophical gems. He’s been spot on faster than an engine company responding to a 8-alarm fire at 3 am!
GSP
“This is Sparta!”
RetFireman-The offer still stands for BBQ in Memphis!
By the way, even with all his partying, Obama has found time to screw the conservatives yet again. He is going to reverse Pres. Bush’s bill outlawing federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. I haven’t totally made up my mind on that subject…for the embryos that already exist and will be destroyed anyway. But I can’t understand why the Federal Government should FUND this!! The research is already being done in private industry, where it belongs. Obama’s timing is perfect for him, as it will open up a whole new week of distracting the public from the issue of his socialising the country. Last week, Limbaugh. This week, stem cell research. Anyone care to guess what next week’s issue will be? Maybe Obama will perform some other amazing and astounding feat so that the MSM will spend another week worshiping at his feet and totally ignoring the fact the our Country is disintegrating. And by the way, I hold the MSM personally responsible for this mess…they covered up for this man and got him elected. Traitors, every one!
How do we go back and find posts for one particular person? I don’t know how to do that, but would like to read Retireman’s posts! Or do we just need to browse through and search for them?
Now THIS is some quality reading for a Sunday morning/afternoon. Ever wonder just how many lies Der Fuhrer has broken since taking over as messiah for the unwashed (SERIOUSLY unwashed…dowsing yourself in patchouli oil is not the same thing) and historically and politically ignorant and mislead masses?
Well, according to this, by December 8, 2008, more than a month before he took his very own version of the Oath of Office…the first time…158.
How many more since? Wow…I mean, that would take some sort of Stephen Hawking type brilliance to count…so who knows. But here is a short list from then.
I leave it to LGM, Ideludemyselfbyclaimingtolovemycountrywhileworkingagainstit, and the rest of the apologists to attempt to justify and rationalize them. That alone will be entertainment for the rest of the day.
Obama’s Documented Lies: 158 and remarkably still growing
Sorry I fractured your moniker, RetFireman! Won’t happen again.
This type of research should be done by private industry and government has no business here. If embryonic stem cell research was so promising, don’t you think the venture capitalists would be tripping over themselves to fund this? Same way they do with other cutting edge technologies?
The only kind of stem cell therapy that has worked with success has been by using adult stem cells. But of course, you’ll never hear about that in the MSM. Let’s put the money on things that have worked:
yo yo yoooo … sa black thang – yall wunt unnerstan! Gotta has the flash, D! Gotta has the flash! Ya unnerstand wut am talkin about? PAR-TAYYY!!!!
Hey Obie kind sir… how ’bout tossin’ some of yur bling-bling my way… us unemployed leaders of your “new economy” need more than jus’ a free ride…
what I’ sayin’ is… the best things in life are free but you can leave them for the birds and bees… I want bling-bling that’s what I want party dude.
Right again. So now that we’ve settled that can we get back to the original question of how the current presidential partay policy is being funded?
I don’t see how it sends the wrong message at all.
I mean, who better than our betters to show us how much better they are than by having expensive parties while we can barely afford to pay the bills??
“If the peasants do not have Wagyu, then let them eat Spam!” – The One
Negotiating with the Taliban. Unbelievable. Truly unbelievable. But true, I know. What is wrong with the Dems? Really?? What is wrong with the Dems??
Sorry someone has to say it. They are no better than the hip hop idiots coming out of the ghetto when their first album makes it big!
It’s just a matter of time O is wearing bling!
It also, shows he and the misses aren’t very cultured and this is the first time on the town! Unfortunately it is at our expense!
This needs to be investigated!
I consider RetFireman the anti-lgm..
A little off topic…….
HERE is the whole article. Excerpt:
I love how leftists can never admit to what they believe. Hussein refused o answer the question with a ‘NO.’ Leftists have to rely on deception to get their policies in place.
A person can call a chair a piano, but it’s still a chair. Hussein can call it whatever he wants, it’s still Socialism and he’s afraid to come out and say it.
Why, how tyically ghetto of them. I have a question. Is any one really surprised by Obama’s behavior and that of his “brood?” He is exactly what I expected. No.Surprise.
Looks like I got nabbed in the filter. Should I be honored or embarrassed by that?
Nabbed by the filter?
WordPress eats any post with more than two links and throws it in a spam folder. I have a small photo site and I get TONS of spam, so I can only imagine how much MM’s site gets. For her to find real posts in all that would be quite difficult. I never even check my spam folder any more.
Misscheryl – I’m not surprised either by any of hussein’s actions. As repugnant as they are, they are quite expected.
when it comes to comrade zero, not only is he a socialist coward, but as the old saying goes, you can take the s–t out of the neighborhood and put it in the WH but it’ll always be only s–t.
Don’t be trippin, yo. He jus’ be keepin it real. Don’t be all playa hatin.
I had 4 links in my post, so that would explain it.
Hopefully someone will rescue it from the abyss, but if not, I guess it wasn’t meant to be posted.
I did say thanks for the compliments and they were making me blush as I was not used to such things.
Surprise, surprise, surprise! Any mention of Ayers, Wright or our Kenyan Bastard in Chiefs citizenship is immediately deleted on Obama’s Wikipedia page and the offending author is banned for 3 days.
Change my ASS!
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91114
Pueblo…that’s exactly what I was picturing too!! “Whose been puttin’ out their coals on my flo’?” Man, we got Bill Ray Valentine in the White House except Billy Ray understood the markets.
Considering that Wikipedia is one of the biggest Liberal run sites on the net, and is just as famous for having completely wrong information as it is for having completely biased information, is anyone surprised at all that there are any number of Blueshirts monitoring his bio making sure that is remains all fluffy and nice without a hint of controversy or truth?
Like I have said, once he is finally exposed as the usurping fraud that everyone knows he is, I look forward to the arrests and prosecution of any and all people who had anything, no matter how small, to do with perpetrating what will become the largest act of treason in the history of civilization. That would include just about every Democrat and RINO in both houses, and would guarantee the death of Liberalism in this country.
They gambled with everything they had when they backed him. They decided it was worth losing everything, and now it is time that the Supreme Court give the men and women serving in the Military their day in court. They have paid enough already, let their case be heard and stop throwing it out before the damage is irreversible.
This partying thing cannot be true.
I just read “sources close to the White House… have voiced concerns that the new president is not getting enough rest.”
So how could he….
Oh. Never mind.
Have they even paid for the Chicago party yet?
How about: A monkey in a tuxedo will always be monkey or You can take the monkey out of the jungle but you can’t take the jungle out of the monkey!
I have to admit, I don’t really care about these parties. As best I can tell, they’re chump change compared to everything else he’s spending. I’m more concerned with the purely fraudulent claim that the lying bamster is going to “save” two trillion over 10 years by not spending money that was never intended to be spent, or that the economy is going to grow by 5.5% in 2011. That’s just pure BS.
Whooo HOO – Obama say “We’re gonna party like it’s 2012″!
Doesn’t have the same ring to it like Prince’s song 1999
Yep, this sounds like you people – stupid.
Boy, you sure can always count on LGm and IHMC to live up to the Liberal playbook of always having absolutely nothing intelligent to say unless it is something completely irrelevant and/or childish.
Great argument there…really, really deep and insightful. Your wealth of knowledge is mind-boggling…truly, truly mind-boggling. You must really make your mom happy that she allows you to live in her basement.