"I am taking my wife to New York City because I promised her during the campaign that I would take her to a Broadway show after it was all finished," the president said yesterday after touching down at JFK for an intimate night on the town.Is a night on the town worse than a weekend at the Crawford ranch? Of course not, but a little modesty by a president ready to micro manage our lives would be nice. A president preparing a cap and trade program to curtail our carbon footprint could easily be tracked from Washington to Broadway by following his. A president who lectured American consumers and business for their profligacy spending painted the town red using only a drop in an ocean of red ink from his own deficit. I found the night on Broadway, tone deaf.
By the way, did anybody calculate the Obama's carbon footprint for the night?
Taxpayers footed the bill for the big night on the town, which included a total of at least $24,000 for the three aircraft used to ferry the Obamas, aides and reporters to New York and back. Dinner costs and orchestra seat tickets -- at $96.50 apiece -- were paid by the Obamas.Obama's jet, a Gulfstream 500, served as a more modest Air Force One for the day in place of the customary presidential Boeing 747.
The White House declined to say how much the trip was costing taxpayers.
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If we all wanted to, we could nit-pick at every little thing everyone does and eventually we would find something bad. While many can object to this ONE NIGHT we can look at other politicians who have done this type of thing for years.
ReplyDeleteAs far as Im concerned, he may have overspent on this night out on the town , but I don't think that reflects on his character as a whole.
One misstep doesn't determine someone's future.