The cost to taxpayers of flying one man, his wife, two daughters, and a dog to Hawaii is estimated at $3,639,622. For purposes of comparison, the total bill for flying the entire royal family (Queen, princes, dukes, the works) around the world for a year is £4.7 million — or about enough for two Obama vacations.
I would like to know how Obama can take his dog to Hawaii when the rest of the world’s dogs (including the rest of the U.S.A.) are required to go into quarantine. One rule for the ONE and one for the rest of the population…
Yes, and as Steyn outlines, the costs to the American public of Obama and his family and their extravagant use of the taxpayer dollar for his flights to vacations and elsewhere, with their large contingents of staff, taking over for example the whole Taj Mahal hotel in India – are astronomical. There’s no comparison to the much smaller costs of the Royal Family.
Steyn doesn’t mention the other high living costs of Obama – the parties at the White House which can each cost 4 million, the 17 vacations, the constant golf, the millions for Michelle’s vacations and trips, and so on..
Some commenters complain but the big media say nothing. Because it would be racist to criticize them?
He can take his dog because he’s married to her.
And still, Michelle looks MISERABLE.
Gypsies in the palace, trailer park trash all over the USA have been given hope by these uptown carpetbaggers. It could happen to you to, is overheard in laundromats all over the country as the marginal of society put down their National Enquirers and throw down the Frito Lays Coors and Camels and rise up and aspire to what these people have achieved on the backs of the dull. As always Steyns wit and writing prowess hits another home run, sadly the Enquirer probably had a story about Heidis or Kloe’s deficit sized hooter enhancements.
Aviator
Obama’s family’s dog has a full-time, six-figure paid dog sitter. The dogs that Obama “owns” are completely neutered, totally obedient, defend him from all criticism, mindlessly ignore his gross incompetence and treasury-looting, enjoy licking his entire anatomy, and all masquerade as reporters.
I find it interesting that obama’s dog (Bo) is actually obama’s initials. Was this intentional and will the day of Bo’s death become a national day of mourning remains to be seen.
In the modern day America(circus circus) anything goes.
It is over for these people until the productive come to the realization that an internal war between the producers and takers is the only way out.
Set up the guillotine.
Two White House live-in projectionists available 24/7. Not one but two.
“And still, Michelle looks MISERABLE.”
Posted by: chutzpahticular at December 8, 2012 3:10 PM
Well if your waist was located half way down your rib cage you might be a little uncomfortable yourself. I mean I assume she’s in physical pain due to this tragic deformity. (The boob belt thing is downright bizarre. And to justify my bitchiness, I’m going to remind you that a)they keep trying to market this woman as a fashion icon and b)there are apparently two live-in White House projectionists.)
(Why doesn’t he just rent a DVD? How does he even have time for this, what with all the golf?)
But you know what? He was re-elected. Even taking the margin of fraud into account, I don’t doubt he was genuinely elected. So what’s to say? They had a good look at this creep and they wanted more. Democracy, baby.
Remember when hypocrisy was supposed to be the pet vice of the right?
The Obamas like their perqs.
and we got Stephen and Laureen Harper, yay!
one-up-MAN-ship, canuck-style
Tail wagging the Dog
BO raisin the standards mon.
next prez gonna hafta go all-in.
never underestimate a politician’s entitlements!
Remarkably, some of the longer lived Despots of the world have lived large to the very end. Odd that!
Mark says, “Nevertheless, Canadian journalists and politicians bitched and whined about the cost of this disgusting jet-set lifestyle nonstop throughout the tour. At the conclusion of their official visit to California, Their Royal Highnesses flew on to Heathrow with their vast entourage of, er, seven people — and the ingrate whining Canadians passed the baton to their fellow ingrate whiners across the Atlantic.” These same journalists have no problem with what the First Secretary spends.
I assume that security costs, protocols and procedures are determined by people other than the president. So, the cost of protecting him is not really his fault but the optics are terrible. He must be aware of the cost so considering the state of the economy and his class warfare tactics you’d think he’d curb his decadence. Take fewer trips, go shabby chic once in awhile, at least try to practice what you preach. Otherwise, be being compared to royalty, or even modern TV evangelists and old Popes, is fair game.
I find it interesting that obama’s dog (Bo) is actually obama’s initials. Was this intentional
Posted by: old duffer at December 8, 2012 3:52 PM
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“Supposedly”, the dog was named after Bo Diddley, (Wiki)………believe it if you like.
Btw, that is a great photo-shop image. It suits, and if nothing else, it portrays how the fawning sycophants view him in the US and here.
bartinski; “Gypsies in the palace”????
us’n gypsies are honest theives!!!!!!
bartinski; “Gypsies in the palace”????
us’n gypsies are honest theives!!!!!!
$4 million eh? How much to send Obama on a deep space probe? Since he is the very pinnacle of humankind surely he is the only one who is qualified to make first contact with our interstellar neighbours.
All sarcasm aside, I wonder if it even crosses Obama’s mind how many people, particularly children, whose Christmas will be ruined because he wants to go surfing. The hundreds of policeman, Secret Service agents and US marines that will be on duty protecting him won’t be able to spend time with their families. Ditto the crew of Air Force One. And please someone think of the poor journalists!
Okay, that last sentence was sarcastic.
Hogwash, LC Bennett. Obama, along with the hideous Jezebel styled his wife, could live modestly if they liked. They simply don’t want to. Living like rap stars at the expense of the “crackers” is one of the perks of the job.
For Michelle Robinson, who in a sensibly ordered world would have been lucky to get into the White House as the girl who cleans the toilets, it’s the biggest attraction of all. She’s there to live like Marie Antoinette or Elena Ceausescu for as long as she can.
Black Mamba, nobody who had to work for a living could maintain that perfectly mesomorphic pear shape that Michelle flaunts and Snoop Dogg wants. ‘Vogue’ has spoken.
Horse apples to your hogwash, Dicky.
Steyn’s article also describes Bush’s security wanting to replace windows at Buckingham Palace. The Obama’s security team is likely following similar, if not the exact same, procedures as they did for Bush and other US Presidents. There may be an institutional problem with over-protection but it likely did not originate with Obama.
Now, like I said, when the POTUS promotes fair share, tax the rich, everyone-must-sacrifice policies during a recession then the sheer number and exotic location of holidays does invite people to criticize the sincerity of his beliefs and the aristocratic-like extravagance.
Take a bow, Aviator and Original Rick: your comments have made it to Vanderleun’s American Digest/sidelines. (“You’ve Got Questions, SDA’s got answers“).
Ah, but the Royal Family has no chimps, so the costs should clearly be very different.
Their comments may indeed have made it there, EBD. But that’s not a dog that the Chimp in Chief has married. It’s a cow. As in “How now…”
I’ve read that Bush always stayed in the WH/D.C. over Christmastime so the Secret Service personnel and other WH staff could stay home for the holidays and not be travelling abroad. That ties into what others, above, have pointed out about the extra expense of Obama going abroad every Christmas.
Also there’s a difference between a state visit and a vacation, LC Bennett, that means that this isn’t comparable to, say, our MSM going ape over the cost of the PM’s limo when that’s not the PM’s decision to make.
BTW, Obama’s also notorious for not caring about local traffic wherever he goes (even, say, fund-raising in L.A.) often shutting down major traffic routes during rush hours.
Not really OT
California thrown a Laffeer curve
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/07/CALIFORNIA-STATE-BUDGET-GOES-OFF-THE-CLIFF
Raise taxes and revenuies drop … hoodathunkit?
I am reminded of how Julius, and then Augustus, Caesar subverted the Roman Republic while leaving the institutions in place.
In this modern day variant, the “Caesar” is just a manikin with a halo around his head. He is Big Brother, a personality cult, while the bureaucratic socialist machine claws ever more powers to itself. The inner circle are those running the show, Geitner, Holder, Bernanke etc.
I don’t like Obama’s policies, and believe he’s the worst president the US has ever had. His wife acts like an Entitlement Princess living large on the taxpayer’s dime.
However the personal attacks against him and his wife as individuals say more about the mental state of the poster, than about the Obama regime.
Ann Coulter had this positive thing to say about President Obama at CPAC:
“He’d probably make a great neighbor — unless you’re Chinese. Then he’d be coming over and borrowing things all the time.”
Is the Axis of Maple, or part thereof, seeking to return home?
Call me crazy, but I thought the article was more a vindication of the Monarchy than an indictment of Obama, actually.
They are all more than welcome, as far as I’m concerned. “The British criminal” is not part of my lexicon.
executive privilege, royal prerogative – tomAto, ToMahto. wazza diff?
That might be, north_of_60, because even here one cannot call them what they really are. Even though that terminology is perfectly descriptive of them.
>>He can take his dog because he’s married to her.
Posted by: Original Rick.
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Sometimes the funniest things are staring at us and it just takes the smallest observation to bust a rib.
>>He can take his dog because he’s married to her.
Posted by: Original Rick.
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Sometimes the funniest things are staring at us and it just takes the smallest observation to bust a rib.
>>He can take his dog because he’s married to her.
Posted by: Original Rick.
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Sometimes the funniest things are staring at us and it just takes the smallest observation to bust a rib.
Sorry for the triple post. I guess this is what happens when ther lappy lags behind, so I hit enter 3 times, waiting for it to respond.
Air Force 1 is just part of the expensive farce.
A emerged during the election, AF1 is part of a formation of several aircraft, capable of roll-on/roll-off vehicles such as the armoured limo and the heavily armed/armoured suburbans that are a component of POTUS 40 car convoys.
During Pelossi’s reign as Speaker of the House she took liberal advantage of the USAF transport to fly home to California every weekend then complained about smaller aircraft that were unable to make the trip non-stop.
Sorta like Kim Il Sung eating caviar on the Trans-Siberian, in his personal car….while his people starved.
“Let them eat cake”
— Marie-Antoinette
“Let them eat the rich”
—Marie-Obamette
“I wonder if it even crosses Obama’s mind how many people, particularly children, whose Christmas will be ruined because he wants to go surfing”
Question:would Obama be in danger of shark attack in the ocean off Hawaii, or would they leave him alone out of respect for a fellow mindless predator?
With apologies to the guy who invented the old shark/lawyer joke.
Well, lets hope a shark makes an appearance and bites his head off. This way they won’t be able to preserve him in a glass display case for all eternity so that freeloading lefties can make the pilgrimage to see his worthless husk.
Well, lets hope a shark makes an appearance and bites his head off. This way they won’t be able to preserve him in a glass display case for all eternity so that freeloading lefties can make the pilgrimage to see his worthless husk.
Well, lets hope a shark makes an appearance and bites his head off. This way they won’t be able to preserve him in a glass display case for all eternity so that freeloading lefties can make the pilgrimage to see his worthless husk.
Well, lets hope a shark makes an appearance and bites his head off. This way they won’t be able to preserve him in a glass display case for all eternity so that freeloading lefties can make the pilgrimage to see his worthless husk.
Well, lets hope a shark makes an appearance and bites his head off. This way they won’t be able to preserve him in a glass display case for all eternity so that freeloading lefties can make the pilgrimage to see his worthless husk.
Ugh! Damn Ipad!
Heh, Robert L! You’ve now got DHS and SS files that are comparable to mine!