Obama spends $24,000 of your money to take Michelle on a date

[wild_wild_wes]

Two martinis, a swank restaurant, a Broadway show -- President Obama really knows how to treat a First Lady.

"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.

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.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/05312009/news/nationalnews/obama_keeps_his_big_apple_pledge_171810.htm

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[Mr.K]

Love the sensationalist partisan headline. :)

From which budget this money comes from? Discretionary spending of the POTUS?


Dinner costs and orchestra seat tickets -- at $96.50 apiece -- were paid by the Obamas. Wow how lavish. As for the cost of transportation, well that's the perks you get as president. Or do you think the secret service will let him to take a cab?

[WarriorMonk]

I would hope he paid out of his own pocket but that seems highly unlikely...

[wild_wild_wes]

From the linked article:

"Dinner costs and orchestra seat tickets -- at $96.50 apiece -- were paid by the Obamas."

[ggk]

his taking her for a date..... leave him alone.

[Mr.K]

I would hope he paid out of his own pocket but that seems highly unlikely...

Why should he pay it out of his own pocket if a president of the USA has a 50K expense account.
Either way, out of his pocket or not, 100$ is peanuts when you earn 400 000$ per year, plus the perks.

[Policía Loco]

Even the president has to dish out a little money to get his pinky stinky :|

[little icebear]

Get back to me, when he spends several trillions of dollars & the lifes of more than 4000 soldiers, to save mankind from the threat of imaginary WMDs.

[skipperbob]

I hope they had a good time! Leave the family alone!

[Insane Tadpole]

If he gets laid at the end of the day isn't worth it?

[bd popeye]

From the linked article:

"Dinner costs and orchestra seat tickets -- at $96.50 apiece -- were paid by the Obamas."

Plus he did not use Air Force one. He used a Gulfstream 500


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.

Get over yourself..

And as most of you know I did not vote for the man..

[Hot Lips]

If he was going to pay for it, it would cost him a whole lot less just to book tickets for the two of them on a commerical flight and take a limo to the theater like anyone else would do and leave the entourage of staff, security, and reporters behind. The reason it costs so much is because as the first family they really don't have that option, thus we pay for it. When he starts spending beyond the funds allocated to every first family for such things I'll be more concerned. I don't expect them to cease having a life of their own completely.

[IraGlacialis]

And I suppose Bush never done anything similar to this?

[Hollis]

It isn't really worth wasting ban width, to post something every time Obama does something that someone can spin..................