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| Obamas Won't Celebrate Christmas |
A survey of adult Americans finds that an overwhelming majority
prefer the seasonal expression "Merry Christmas." More than seven
out of ten, in fact. Twenty-two percent, according to Rasmussen
Reports, go for "Happy Holidays."
However, the Obamas, who won't
spend their first December holidays in the White House, apparently don't
like either one.
The Obamas have just
mailed thousands of greeting cards that say simply, "Season's
Greetings." They're cream-colored, maroon-bordered cards showing a gold
wreath wrapped around the presidential coat of arms.
The Obamas'
card, paid for by the Democratic National Committee, makes no religious
reference whatsoever. "May your family have a joyous holiday
season," says the Obamas' greeting, "and a new year blessed with hope
and happiness." This comes after reports that, initially anyway,
the Obama White House
planned its first Christmas to be a "non-religious" one, kind of
like a non-sports Super Bowl Sunday. |
| Obama's Christmas Tree |
Why let a holiday season come between the White House and making
some political statements? The White House pegged controversial
designer Simon Doonan to oversee
the Christmas decorations for the White House. Mr. Doonan, who is
creative director of Barney’s New York has often caused a stir with his
design choices. Like his naughty yuletide window display of
Margaret Thatcher as a dowdy dominatrix and Dan Quayle as a
ventriloquist’s dummy. For this year’s White House, he didn’t
disappoint.
These photos of ornaments on the White House
Christmas tree in the Blue Room were taken just days ago. Of
course, Mao has his place in the White House. And, it wouldn’t be
Christmas without an ornament of legendary transvestite Hedda Lettuce --
he/she even signed it -- and, so soon after collecting the Nobel Peace
Prize, why wouldn’t the White House have an ornament super-imposing
Obama onto Mt. Rushmore. All around, a very Barry Christmas!
Related:
The White House doesn’t know if Obama will attend Church on Christmas.
As of Tuesday, three days before Christmas, the White House did not
know if Barack Obama would be attending church to celebrate Jesus'
birth.
During his first year in office, Obama has not regularly
attended a Washington-area church. He left his Chicago church in
2008 when its outspoken pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, became a
liability to his presidential campaign. |
| Livin' Large On Your Dime |
Kristinn at FreeRepublic.com
reports
that Barack Obama will be spending ten days over Christmas and New
Year's at a $8.9 million estate in Hawaii at a rate of at least $4000
per night, according to ABC News. Obama spent last Christmas there
as well when he was president-elect.
As the American people are
still caught in the grips of the recession with unemployment running
from 10% to 16% and the federal budget blown out with Obama's massive
deficit spending, Obama is living like a king with no criticism from the
mainstream media.
ABC describes the estate with no mention of the
incongruence of Obama's extravagance with the wrecked Christmases of
tens of millions of Americans one year in to his failing presidency:
The Obamas' rental property is 7,000 square
feet of paradise on the southeastern coast of the island, complete
with large open spaces built around a lagoon pool.
...It's
also not cheap. Staying in this $8.9 million house, which Zimel has
dubbed the "Obama Winter White House," will cost around $4,000 a
night. The two houses next door will be occupied by Obama family
members and friends.
While ABC News ignores Obama's "Let them eat cake"
attitude, the New York Daily News flat out
lies for Obama on his self-indulgent Christmas:
With so many Americans hurting, the White
House is smart enough to know that they don’t want to flaunt their
good fortunes on those who are without...The First Family heads to
Hawaii tomorrow for a well-deserved tropical Christmas.
It's good to be the king! |
| The Obamas' Ritzy Vacation |
Brad Wilmouth imagines the outrage if any Republican president went
on vacation during a recession and spent $4,000 a night on
accommodations --- plus! On ABC’s Good Morning America Wednesday,
correspondent Yunji de Nies seemed to suggest that Obama’s family will
be spending such an amount renting expensive living space at an estate
house in Hawaii for a two-week Christmas vacation. De Nies:
"Christmas trees here aren't cheap -- neither is staying in this $8.9
million house, which runs $4,000 a night. The Obamas rented this
one and the two next door (another $2,000 or $3,000 for family and
friends -- plus security). When you spend that kind of money,
people pay attention to detail."
De Nies did not specify exactly
how much is being spent or where the money is coming from, though the
amount may even be significantly more than $4,000 a day as she related
that "the two next door" were also being rented for family and friends
of the Obamas. The ABC correspondent also recounted that the
estate house overlooks a beach popular with royalty: "But it's the
master bedroom and its breathtaking view that is the crown jewel.
Kailua Beach has been ranked the island's best, a favorite of Hawaiian
royalty."
Anchor George Stephanopoulos gushed over Obama's plans
for a two-week getaway to Hawaii as he introduced the report:
When I last interviewed Obama in September,
he was already pining for his Christmas vacation -- two weeks of
sun, shaved ice and surf in Hawaii. Well, it's finally here.
Delayed just a little bit by that health care vote, but it's gonna
come tomorrow morning. Then Obama is taking off. One
other big perk of the trip, a magnificent beach house his family is
staying in for the second year in a row.
Here is a complete transcript of the piece from the Wednesday,
December 23, Good Morning America on ABC:
Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann
believes the Obamas’ ten day vacation on Oahu will do wonders for
the state’s tourism industry, which has been deeply battered by the U.S.
recession.
"I think it's going to create all kinds of demand,"
the mayor told Khon2. "People are gonna want to come here when
they see the president sunning and funning in Hawaii having great time."
Despite spending $100,000 or more on Obama's security, Hannemann
believes the expenditure is an investment that will pay tremendous
dividends for the cash strapped city, which faces a $140 million deficit
during the next fiscal year. |
| What Did The Obamas Do In Hawaii? |
KHON2 is
reporting that Obama and his family spent 11 days, 10 nights on
Oahu, and now they're packing up for their return flight home to the
winter weather of Washington, D.C.
Obama is spending his final
hours on Oahu soaking up the sun outdoors, freeing his mind of ugly
thoughts of jihadists, and taking
motorcades to the beach,
and racketeering at the Racquet Club.
Scott Miscovich has seen it all, living on
the same street as what has been coined the First Family's
Winter White
House. Misovich said, "Been interesting, we've had
protestors, a
lot of people coming just to observe" -- not to mention the number of
U.S. Secret Service, police and
Coast Guard crews that have staked claim
to his neighborhood.
And it's been hard for him not to notice
each time Obama passes by. "He left a lot, sometimes three
times a day or more," said Miscovich.
On his final day in Hawaii,
Obama didn't deviate from his morning routine, hitting the gym at Marine
Corps Base Hawaii for a quick workout. After that it was off to
the greens for a round of golf at Kaneohe's Klipper Course.
"He's
doing things I think my kids or if I went away would come back I'd want
to do also," said Miscovich, like exploring
Sea Life Park, watching the
movie "Avatar," a date night
dinner and of course,
shaved ice.
"He
did yeah they were out and about a lot, I heard Island Snow and so they
were out quite a bit," said Kailua resident Kyla Murray.
 Obama, out and about -- three
times a day -- that's a lot of CO 2
Still, day after day, many folks
flocked to Kailua beach, hoping they'd see the Obama's up close.
"Yeah we even came down here a few times with the camera trying to see
if we could catch a glimpse," said Murray.
$4,000 a day for the
rental, and
$4,000,000 a day for the ancillaries. It's good to be the
Obamamessiah. |
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The White House Has Become A Shrine To Obama |
Newsbusters.com is
reporting that Ed Schultz, on his radio show, talked about meeting
with Obama advisor David Axelrod at the White House last week, along
with fellow liberal radio host Bill Press and several other left-wing
media types Schultz did not identify.
Schultz: First of all you walk into the
White House, in the West Wing, and there are picture all over, I
mean everywhere! Of President Obama! I mean, of his life in
the first year as president of the United States. Now I don't
know if that's the way it is with every president, but it was almost
a shrine. I mean, well, here's a picture of Obama the
president with his kids over here. There he is getting on Air
Force One. Here he is with some military people. Here he
is on the line working the line at one of his campaign stops.
I mean, just, it was just one picture after another! (laughs)
Schultz is a
far-left opinion-meister on MSNBC. He considers himself a
"progressive liberal." His talk
show is generally considered to be a very liberal-leaning program.
He is pro-union and centers a large portion of his radio show on the
"plight of working class Americans."
This display of Obama's
narcissism in the White House must really be something when an Obot like
Schultz is surprised.
Update: Just received this Hillbuz report from Stacy -- Today,
...took a much-needed break from the Internet and went down to the
Museum of Science & Industry here in Chicago to see the White House
model they have on display through February: it’s a to-scale
miniature, with cutaways into most of the rooms. Apparently, the
Zeif Family, who made and maintains this model, travels to the White
House in each administration, measures any changes that were made, and
recreates the interior of the White House to exacting detail.
They’ve been doing this since the Kennedy Administration.
What
disturbs us is that, if the model is really exact in all details, the
actual White House is chock full of crazy currently.
In the Zeif model, the East and West wings of the
White House are plastered with propaganda. Inside all the offices, there
are GIANT photos of the current First Family, the likes of which we’d
expect to see in Pyongyang or the old presidential palaces in Baghdad,
before the Husseins were ousted. They aren’t even particularly
good pictures -- like things cut out of People magazine or some other
propaganda piece run on the Obamas.
It’s just strange that the
Zeifs took the time to recreate everything else in such painstaking
detail, but then plaster the interior of the East and West wings (but
not the original White House itself), with giant images of Dr. Utopia
and his "fashion icon" wife. Unless the REAL East and West wings
really are covered in this garbage.
The miniature computer
screens in the offices are all functional, and play tiny propaganda
reels praising the Obamas. The White House cinema, located
in the Collonade between the White House and the East Wing, also plays a
DVD promoting the glory of all things Obama.
It’s really very
strange. And, there's more
here . . .
Sounds like Schultz's description
of the place might be understated. |
| Obamas Throw A Party Every 3 Days |
Gateway Pundit
reminds us that Back in January 2009, before he signed his failed
$787 billion stimulus bill into law, Barack Obama told America that
everyone must
sacrifice for the greater good. Everyone must have
"some skin in the game."
What he meant, of course, was that
everyone would have to sacrifice to lift American out of the worst
recession since the Great Depression -- except for Barack and Michelle
Obama.
Now we learn that the the Obama White House has held one
party every three days in first year of Obama reign.
Rep. Bob
Latta (R-OH) reported:
"Let the good times roll" -- and roll they have
at the Obama White House, while nearly 11% of the workforce remains
unemployed, nearly four million Americans are losing their homes,
and terrorists ride the open skies.
In fact, according to the
Chicago Tribune, the stylish Ms. Rogers and the party-hearty First
Couple hosted no less than 170 parties and social events through
December 3 of 2009. And that does not even include the 17
parties and 11 open houses -- feting more than 50,000 guests -- ABC
News reported the Obamas hosted throughout the Holiday Season.
For those not counting, that means by January, 2010, Ms. Rogers
had staged one gala
White House event every three days throughout the first year of the
Obama Administration, making the once austere Executive Mansion look
more like party central.
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| Obamas Earned $5.5 Million In 2009 |
Breitbart
reports Barack Obama and his wife have doubled their income since he
took office, declaring a joint gross income of 5.5 million dollars for
the 2009 fiscal year, the White House said Thursday.
Obama
earned an annual salary of 374,460 dollars since his inauguration in
January 2009, according to his tax filings released Thursday, but most
of his income came from his books, which have leaped to the top of the
bestseller lists since he first started running for the White House.
In 2008, Obama and his wife, Michelle, declared a joint gross income
of 2.65 million dollars, most of which also came from royalties on his
mythology, "Dreams of My Father" and, the Rev. Wright-inspired, "The
Audacity of Hope."
According to his 2009 documents, the Obamas
paid 1.79 million dollars in federal taxes and 163,303 dollars in state
taxes to Illinois where the couple owns a home in Chicago.
Obama
also received 1.4 million dollars last year when he won the Nobel Peace
Prize, but he has donated his prize money among 10 charities, the White
House said, and the sum is not part of the 5.5 million dollars declared
income.
The couple also donated 329,100 dollars to 40 different
charities in 2009, with the largest reported gifts being 50,000 dollars
to CARE and the United Negro College Fund.
In 2007, the Obamas
said they had earned 4.2 million dollars. That was still an increase
from 2008 when their joint income was 269,256 dollars. They also
gave some 4,820 dollars to charity, or some 1.4 percent of their
incomes, the White House said.
Obama also sold two inheritances
from his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, who died in the final days of his
campaign. He made less than $1,000 from the sale of a tax-free
trust. A
second inheritance -- shares in the Bank of Hawaii where his
grandmother rose from a secretary to a vice president -- sold for
between $250,000 and $500,000. Obama's tax returns, made public
earlier in the year, show he took a loss on that investment. |
| Party! Party! Party! |
The AP is
reporting that another gazllion-dollar White House state dinner is in the
works.
Chinese President Hu Jintao (hoo jin-tow) has accepted
Barack Obama’s invitation to visit the U.S. on a formal state visit.
Obama officials said Saturday after the two leaders met in Toronto that
the countries will work out a mutually acceptable date for the visit.
Obama extended the invitation during his meeting with Hu. The
two were in Canada to participate in an international economic summit
among the world’s largest and emerging economies.
It will be
Obama's third state dinner, following the extravagant galas for
India and
Mexico.
No sweat! It's only your money. |
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