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The Obamas make do with 54 Christmas trees
Amazing how a reelection can reshape an incumbent’s thinking about many things. Now safely ensconced in the White House for 49 more months, the Obamas have decorated the place with 54 Christmas trees this year. …
“We have 54 trees in the White House,” an excited Michelle Obama proudly told visitors the other day. “54! That’s a lot of trees.”
In fact, the Obamas’ 54 trees this year are almost 50% more Christmas trees than last year. …
According to notices distributed to residents of an exclusive waterfront neighborhood in Hawaii, they can expect to enjoy restricted access and other inconveniences to their homes and normal lives from Dec. 17 through Jan. 6. That’s about a 50% longer holiday vacation than last year.
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Tree murderers.
steebo77 on December 3, 2012 at 2:16 PM
A 50% increase in the number of trees. Truly a couple of the people.
Cindy Munford on December 3, 2012 at 2:19 PM
That’s pretty much every public area covered then, unless they’ve started putting them in bedrooms and offices.
CorporatePiggy on December 3, 2012 at 2:19 PM
One for each state.
rogerb on December 3, 2012 at 2:20 PM
Almost one for each state, so which 3 states don’t have a White House Christmas tree?
rbj on December 3, 2012 at 2:20 PM
Nothing to see here, move along /BSM
Chip on December 3, 2012 at 2:21 PM
Those two sure are worried about our debt aren’t they? And in a couple weeks they are off for a three weeks vacation in Hawaii and that is gonna cost us also. Sure must be nice to do as you dang well please and demand us ‘little people’ do our ‘fair share’?
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letget on December 3, 2012 at 2:21 PM
How many Mao ornaments on each?
Kataklysmic on December 3, 2012 at 2:23 PM
One for each state…
SFH on December 3, 2012 at 2:23 PM
It’s almost as if they are spending other peoples money.
antipc on December 3, 2012 at 2:24 PM
Anyone who thinks the Obamas should have fewer trees is a racist who probably lives in a state of the old Confederacy. I’ll bet the editors of IBD were whistlin’ Dixie when they wrote that piece.
ramesees on December 3, 2012 at 2:25 PM
Minority got Obama tree.
WeekendAtBernankes on December 3, 2012 at 2:25 PM
C’mon people! The Obama’s deserve to have all those trees and all that vacation.
They are after all having to do all the heavy lifting planing our pitiful little lives.
Just think of all the pressure they find themselves under – after all, they will have the heavy burden of creating the first Death panels and deciding where all the wealth they’ve taken at gun point will be ‘redistributed’..
Chip on December 3, 2012 at 2:25 PM
Plus a 20- day $4+ million vacation this month. It’s good to be the king. Suck it, serfs.
BHO Jonestown on December 3, 2012 at 2:25 PM
Nice to see him “focused like a laser” on the Fiscal Cliff.
Nethicus on December 3, 2012 at 2:28 PM
Thank god he didn’t invade the north pole to make a Christmas tree pipeline to the US like Bush did.
Gatsu on December 3, 2012 at 2:29 PM
Santa Clause needs alot of trees.
HumpBot Salvation on December 3, 2012 at 2:32 PM
I thought they were waging a war on Christmas? Did they steal the trees from Rick Perry or something?
Theres also a joke here about seeing the forest instead of the trees or something, but I’m not quite sure what it is yet.
vegconservative on December 3, 2012 at 2:37 PM
Poor things.
Those damned Republicans are making them do it.
Good Lt on December 3, 2012 at 2:39 PM
HAVE THEY NO EMPATHY???
Ben Hur on December 3, 2012 at 2:41 PM
The Obama’s favorite Tree is decorated with 1000′s of small mirrors, so they can see themselves.
portlandon on December 3, 2012 at 2:56 PM
She calls them “trees”. Not “Christmas trees”. Get it right.
ctmom on December 3, 2012 at 2:59 PM
“We has overcome”
Schadenfreude on December 3, 2012 at 3:03 PM
It’s racist to bring this up you know…
claudius on December 3, 2012 at 3:05 PM
Lincoln Chafee hardest hit.
mrt721 on December 3, 2012 at 3:08 PM
Environmentalists and media all silent.
May they, who are incestuous with the gov’t, all give birth to cripples (yes, used un-PC word on purpose).
Merry Christmas, fools.
Schadenfreude on December 3, 2012 at 3:08 PM
On the issue of the wh and Christmas. boehner has sent a counter offer on the debt! This should go well? boehner is to go to a party at the wh tonight, wonder if bho/boehner will speak to each other?
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/270649-house-republicans-make-22t-counter-offer-to-obama-in-debt-talksklj
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letget on December 3, 2012 at 3:11 PM
The residents of Staten Island are comforted that Dear Leader is doing so well…
Seven Percent Solution on December 3, 2012 at 3:13 PM
Baraka Claus needs the extra trees to store his election gifts till Christmas. Still, I expect the trees are all the wrong heights.
sauldalinsky on December 3, 2012 at 3:17 PM
Are they going to Hawaii for Christmas this year? I hope a lot of private citizens get to tour the White House while they are gone.
Cindy Munford on December 3, 2012 at 3:46 PM
Why doesn’t Ken Salazar and his crowd come after these wanton Assassins of Gaia? How many more good trees must die before the 0bama’s lust for excess is satisfied?
I hope Treebeard leads the Ents to tear down 0bama’s Castle of Evil just like they did with Sauruman.
(No, I’m not being merely snarky… I really wish it)
LegendHasIt on December 3, 2012 at 4:04 PM
I wish the Obamas would make like a tree and get outta here.
Nick_Angel on December 3, 2012 at 4:14 PM
54 is a tad much, but nonetheless, better than the ongoing war on Christmas which has seen trees removed for fear of offending non Christians.
kkaneff79 on December 3, 2012 at 4:16 PM
Notice how ernesto, lester, verbaluce, HAL, libfreeordie are defending this.
Schadenfreude on December 3, 2012 at 4:19 PM
How wasteful and garish. Then again, we’re talking Christmas and the Obamas.
Christien on December 3, 2012 at 4:30 PM
Now that the election is over, he “Can be more flexible”.
The Mao ornaments have been supplemented with Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Castro and Che ornaments…. And maybe even a couple of Putin ornaments.
There would be Ahmadinejad, Morsi and Zawahiri ornaments too, but that would be haraam.
LegendHasIt on December 3, 2012 at 4:32 PM
54? One tree for every inch of Big Mo’s butt width?
Pork-Chop on December 3, 2012 at 4:34 PM
How they shtruggle.
Christien on December 3, 2012 at 4:42 PM
LegendHasIt on December 3, 2012 at 4:32 PM
Orwell, Machiavelli, Pinocchio, Muenchhausen, Goebbels
Schadenfreude on December 3, 2012 at 4:51 PM