Give me a break!

[Elisabethsew 50]

I might not be the biggest Obama supporter but the man is getting flack for taking his wife on a date? Give me a break! The story goes that Obama promised Michelle that he would take her to dinner and a Broadway show once campaigning was over with. He and Michelle boarded a small plane and did just that.

The press is claiming that this was a poor choice given the recession that the country is in. Since when can't a couple plan a short trip? It seems to me that we have more important things to focus on in this country than date night for the Obamas.

[burnsun 27]

i can count on one hand in about 3 second....thing i think are more important to have in the news than his date....by the way my husband i try to do something every month! uRGH ............ do iwish he had solved health care by now....YEP..... will not going to see broadway show have made it done ...likely not.... my sister in law works in a show there so him coming might have helped her...so I thnk it was a great thing !

[libguy2753 0]

Given all the vacations Bush took, there shouldn't be any issue with the Obamas going on a date. It's not like they went and had a $1000 sundae.

[Jaffa 5]

Actually, the small plane used costs about 10,000 an hour to run. So the government probably spends about 20,000 to run the same plane. This is just about the largest corporate plane available, but not the very largest. Don't kid yourself, this "trip" was no less then 100,000 in cost to us. Cost to Barack....nothing. They are also traveling regularly to chicago to eat out!!!!!!! COME ON, this is waste.

It is a complete waste of tax dollars. Take your damn wife out on your own checkbook, not mine.

I hate all of the trips we pay for, republican or democrat, I hate them all equally.

[Rosebud2 26]

They can go on all the dates they want as long as I'm not paying for it. Valentine's dinner in Chicago, theater in NYC. Please. They could have gone to the Kennedy Center in DC for theater.

[debking811 5]

Maybe it's just me but isn't everyone getting tired of hearing about Obama's date that we're paying for and what dog to get for his kids and didn't it take several weeks to decide on a name for the dog. Thank goodness someone finally started helping Mrs Obama pick out a decent dress.

Also, how bout Michelle's arms...do they really look any different from anyone else's arms that work out regularly with weights...I thought this cpl in the White House was going to be different...NOT!!!!

[DownInSocal 12]

Bush ran back and forth to his Ranch in Texas ALL THE TIME and a huge cost to the taxpayers. I am sick and tired of all the nit picking at Obama.

I am wondering how many here complained about Bush jetting around all the time? Or is it only wrong when Obama does it? Lord forbid he take an evening off.

[Jaffa 5]

Yea, I hate it when any politician BUSH or OBAMA or any of them, blatantly use our tax dollars for their personal needs. He may be entitled to a night off, but he certainly should not have the right to use government assets for his personal use, and no it isn't because it is Obama, were sick of all politicians and the abuse of power.

[Jaffa 5]

Honestly, I'm getting a little fed up with the people argueing that what he is doing isn't wrong because someone else did it.

Man, if we all used that kind of argument we could do just about anything and never be wrong for doing it, but then again, that is kind of what this society wants?

[Rosebud2 26]

"He promised his wife he would take her to a Broadway show after the election was over."

Um, he had a couple of months to do that before he became President. Then it would have been on him.

[Rosebud2 26]

You don't know how much I want to fire the lot of them and start from scratch. They are all corrupt or on their way to becoming corrupt. They stay there for a while and think they are above we mere mortal and have privileges.

[Elisabethsew 50]

I would kill for Michelle Obama's arms. LOL.

[burnsun 27]

me too!

ok for real. It costs us any time the president or his family step out of the rooms at the white house..... there security is a cost already built in. He can't just take a train to union station unless he takes the whole train! It is because he is president.

I do not begrudge them a night out.... I doubt we as taxpayers paid for the tickets (likely got them for free or he paid for them) but we do have to pay for his transportation there ..... just like we paid for him to go to the capital building or lunch with Bidden (he just paid for the food) ,

It is a perk or such of the job...... I would think the scrutiny of his office and invasions into their personal moments hardly will ever make up for this.....but it is all a part of package..... I think few would want, but many could do better or at least just as well!

[MacMadame 81]

I'd kill for more of her body parts than her arms!

[Jaffa 5]

Oh great, now we have Michele Obama's name and the word kill in a forum.

We probably just made the internet Czar's watch list.....LOL