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March 08, 2009
White House Nightlife Under Investigation
White House nightlife under investigation
By Bob Unruh
'This party atmosphere sends the wrong message'
An organization that serves as a watchdog on the U.S. government for American taxpayers has launched a campaign to uncover exactly how much tax money is being spent on parties at the Obama White House.
The president has shown a penchant for lavish galas, such as the huge assembly orchestrated in Denver when he accepted his party's nomination for president – an outdoor gathering for some 75,000 featuring a stage with Greek columns. He also held a multimillion-dollar victory celebration in Chicago, and his fancy inauguration cost an estimated $170 million, according to ABC News.
Now, Larry Klayman, founder of Freedom Watch, told WND today he's seeking information about the partying in the White House since the Obamas moved in.
Klayman said the reports of the partying at the White House, "with the likes of Steve Wonder and other high priced entertainment stars," will be the focus of document requests being submitted to the General Services Administration. The requests will seek to determine how much taxpayer money is being used.
"Barack and Michelle Obama have been throwing taxpayer funded parties nearly every night with their 'friends' and supporters, with Michelle Obama even exhorting them not to 'break' White House property," Klayman's announcement said.
"This party atmosphere sends the wrong message to the American people. As the Obama-Clinton crowd party on, the American people are suffering greatly," Klayman said.
"It was right to criticize corporate execs for using taxpayer bailout money on bonuses and corporate junkets. In the face of this criticism, it is an outrage for Barack and Michelle Obama to party on, as Rome burns. It's like throwing a party at a funeral," he said.
According to a report by the news and commentary website Politico, many of the parties have been just that – parties, not political and government meetings.
"Using one of the world’s most famous private residences as bait, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are unleashing a bipartisan charm offensive and exploiting every square inch of their new home to make friends and influence rivals. The social calendar suggests a return to the days of Camelot," the report said.
"Since moving into their new digs, the first couple has hosted a half-dozen gatherings – from bipartisan cocktail receptions to a public open house to the more intimate Super Bowl party ... ending many of their days past midnight," the report said.
"Most recently … the Obamas opened the White House doors to House caucus leaders from the moderate Blue Dog Democrats and the Congressional Black Caucus. White House aides say the couple hopes to make the Wednesday cocktail parties a tradition."
The report quoted White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers saying the Obamas want to "replicate the same kind of environment they had in Chicago."
"If there was a party or an event in Chicago, they were there," the report quoted "a friend" saying.
But is anything of government value accomplished?
"You would have felt like a fool talking about politics at this party," said Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., said after one major event. "I was surprised how much of a social event it was and how little of a political occasion it was."
Insiders said in the report that the Obama social schedule is busier than any other previous occupants of the White House.
"We haven't seen this kind of entertaining in a really long time," Dee Dee Myers, former White House press secretary to Bill Clinton, said in the report.
Wild Thing's comment..........
The FREAKS get their FREAK ON at our FREAKING expense.
The United States White House - The Obama Administration’s version of MTV Cribs.
He is so far disconnected from real Americans as you could get. It is all about him and his place in history. Never mind the innocent people suffering because of his evil, narcissistic ways.
Normally I wouldn’t care. But it’s different now that we have some would-be Mugabe in the WH partying hearty after criticizing corporate executives and private individuals for having business events (which Obama's events certainly are not) and thereby causing a disaster to the hotel and restaurant industry.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at March 8, 2009 07:55 AM
Comments
Party time at the Crib. Now we're reading reports of imported Japanese beef at $100 per pound. This clown can't even buy American Beef.
Obama is nothing more than a child who believes his parents just pull an endless supply of money out of their pockets. All his life he's been given everything he wants and now he's in the position to take everything he wants. He believes the US Treasury is an endless supply of money and he's spending it as such. His childish ways are breaking this nation.
Posted by: BobF at March 8, 2009 09:14 AM
Suppose we could get a secret service agent to pull tha rug out from under this nut durin a Crib party??
Posted by: Chief at March 8, 2009 09:34 AM
They are just getting worse and worse! He got the gold mine, I got the shaft-working three jobs and eatin' baloney! (anyone remember that old song?) I wish I could afford Kobe Beef, I hear it's absolutely melt in your mouth delicious! But I can wait. I have staying power. Hamburger and cheap roasts are fine for now. I just get creative with them and work from there. I hope to God someone calls him out on his lavish parties. A party is fine, but not when I'm paying $100 a steak for a uppity you know what party. I really don't like this couple. I don't hate them because they're stupid and you can't hate stupid, but I can dislike them immensely.
Posted by: Lynn at March 8, 2009 09:58 AM
Not surprising at all. This couple has no class. They are where they are because powerful people set them up and ignorant people voted them in. It is a shame the dignity of the position is becoming a party celebration.
Posted by: TomR at March 8, 2009 01:26 PM
He can party every night, but yet he is too tired to address foreign policy matters.
bho is an abomination and disgrace to the highest office of our great Nation.
I cannot use his name and the word "President" in the same sentence. And, won't.
Is everybody happy that we are all working out butts off to pay for this crap?!? I still don't have the skittles pooping unicorn I was promised.
Posted by: BT in SA at March 8, 2009 02:41 PM
P.S. It is NOT just the "night life" that should be under investigation at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue!
Posted by: BT in SA at March 8, 2009 02:42 PM
Yeah, he wants nothing to do with foreign policy, gets in the way of the parties and redistributing the wealth that he never earned.
Posted by: Mark at March 8, 2009 03:53 PM
BobF., well said! This sure is what is happening.
"He believes the US Treasury is an endless supply of money and he's spending it as such. His childish ways are breaking this nation."
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 8, 2009 04:50 PM
Chief, LOL I would love that.
Heh heh I can see the party going strong, and in wakk secret service very stern,..." the party is over folks" the tax payers say enough is einough. " Out bursts, nashing of teeth by Michelle Obama...giggle.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 8, 2009 04:52 PM
Lynn I remember that song. I'm guilty of complaining that I'm eating cardboard and living in the dark to save money it feels like. Truth is that it's not nearly that bad and I kind of enjoy the challenge of frugality, but only when it's my choice.
New name for Mr. and Mrs. Bogus POTUS: The Howls, because that's what they make me want to do everytime I see their smug mugs.
Posted by: Eden at March 8, 2009 04:53 PM
Lynn, yes, what bugs me too is how he tells anyone off that says he might be on the wrong track destroying the economy like he is and then he does things like their parties, a real in our face kind of thing. Like that one quote said the parties do not have anything to do with politics, they are just parties to party. sheesh
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 8, 2009 04:59 PM
Tom, exactly!
"They are where they are because powerful people set them up and ignorant people voted them in"
I agree too Tom, in what you said about the dignity of the position. He just does not get it at all, it isn't something he can relate to.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 8, 2009 05:03 PM
BT in SA, he sure is!!!
"an abomination and disgrace to the highest office of our great Nation"
I agree too, there should be all kinds of other investigations as well.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 8, 2009 05:06 PM
Mark, when Clinton was President, I mean after he was one, there was a list of those that slept in the Lincoln bedroom and those that were invited to the private parties they had. It all had a lot to do with the Chinagate and some other crimes they did.
I wonder if one day we will have something like that, big long lists of America haters that slept in the Lincoln bedroom and attended the parties. Those are the kind of people the Obama's like to be with.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 8, 2009 05:11 PM
Eden, LOL good one. Loved how you put that.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 8, 2009 05:13 PM
