Oh please, every modern president has personal travel and it’s always expensive. It’s simply part of being president. Bush visited Crawford 77 times at a greater expense than $24,000 (he always took the 747 which costs over $50k an hour to operate) and there’s nothing wrong with that.

jonknee on June 7, 2009 at 11:00 AM

Boy, did they b*tch and moan about it anyway…that’s MarkTheGreat’s point.

Of course if a Republican president ever cost the taxpayers $1000, just to have a date night, much less $24K, plus whatever NY and NYC spent, then there would be heck to pay in the media for weeks.

MarkTheGreat on June 6, 2009 at 1:41 PM

Oh please, every modern president has personal travel and it’s always expensive. It’s simply part of being president. Bush visited Crawford 77 times at a greater expense than $24,000 (he always took the 747 which costs over $50k an hour to operate) and there’s nothing wrong with that. The president shouldn’t be on house arrest.

They live…we sleep weep.

Dr. ZhivBlago on June 6, 2009 at 12:58 PM

It’s the grandiosity of the gesture, not the gesture itself, that’s captivating.

Of course if a Republican president ever cost the taxpayers $1000, just to have a date night, much less $24K, plus whatever NY and NYC spent, then there would be heck to pay in the media for weeks.

They live…we sleep.

But, thanks, O, for showing us that you’re looking out for us. Maybe in 20 years or so when we get out of this economic mess, we 9000s can afford a night out.

1. Even Bill and Hill held hands when the cameras were rolling.
2. When Nancy Reagan looked up at “her” Ronnie, she was ridiculed. (I guess love among seniors was too “yucky” for the MSM.
3. George and Laura had date nights, too, but didn’t use the relatively new term.
4. We’ll see how swell their life is when the girls hit their teens and Michelle hits the change.

These are not two people who are still madly or even happily in love like Nicholas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni.

He looks bored like he can’t wait to text Scarlett Johansson or Larry Sinclair or Reggie. /sarc

She just has that angry Michelle look that says “Don’t even go there!”

Queen Michell is slummin in france right now.

seven on June 5, 2009 at 11:26 PM

I would advise her not to invite any more comparisons to Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.

If all this blather about one Saturday night feels like last-week’s jelly doughnuts when everyone else has moved on to Obama’s speech to the world’s Muslims, then why were the tabloids still honking about “President Obama and Michelle’s Picture Perfect Marriage” even as he was en route to Saudi Arabia?

So, taking our cues from the tabloids now? This is the L.A. Times, isn’t it.

Richard Wolffe, they have something in common with Charles and Di there too.

What Obama’s really in love with an even fuglier chick?

The shameless adoration of the press simply knows no bounds. This must have been what France was like in 1789 or perhaps Russia in 1917.

The colonies in 1776.

And now the impossibly elegant Obamas — he was sleek and tie-less, she wore black — have only raised the bar with a third date night since Inauguration Day.

WHAT is WRONG with these PEOPLE?

Seriously!!!

What?

They are POD people. What happened. Why do we have all these pod people?

3 1/2 more years of this…I’m not going to make it…

I just said the same thing this evening. I can’t look at either one of them. His droning, preaching voice, with the swallowed endings on his sentences makes me want to throw something through the t.v.

If he gets the next four years, figure it will be for the next 40 years. Some how, some way he’ll become a dictator for life, like Castro. All his dreams are coming true, why not that?

I love that we finally have our own Prince and Princess. Since the death of Di, there has been a vacuum for this. It gives the 10% out of work something to cheer and be happy about.

dcwvu on June 5, 2009 at 7:03 PM

Oh yeah, I’ve really missed puff pieces on rich people blowing money they never earned.

Stuff like this….

Seven Percent Solution on June 5,2009 at 7:31,7:36PM.

Seven Percent Solution: I wonder if Michelle Obama and
family have been to Disneyland,
for the first time in her life!:)