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misslinda
06/03/09

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It was worth whatever it cost to see otherwise jaded New Yorkers climbing up lightposts to get a glimps of the Obamas, crowds a dozen deep cheering when they emerged from the restaurant. I've never seen anything like that since we cheered on the firefighters going to and from the pit. This President is genuinely loved, admired and respected and that's what's driving the wingnuts mad.
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MelitaPolyhymnia
06/03/09

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Um, it goes like this...Barack Obama is our President. He must be protected at all times. He is entitled to do whatever he pleases. Going to NY for dinner and a Broadway show is just typical family stuff, nothing extraordinary, did just that myself just the other day. He is working hard to straighten out our country for us. Are you haters saying that he should be chained to his desk to wallow in the corruption W gave us all? It is so demoralizing to constantly hear all of these haters and sh*t-stirrers pointificating on their "pseudo" issues. Americans do not love each other anymore. : (
P.S. - to that ass-wipe who called New York City by another name...look in the mirror dude and you will see the reason for all of our troubles...skanks like you. Have a nice day.
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Better to Eat You With
06/03/09

@MelitaPolyhymnia: Have you turned your sarcasm detector off for the evening?
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TheMac
06/03/09

@Better to Eat You With: Thoroughly unreadable.
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Awesome X
06/02/09

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Oh, I'd almost forgotten about Hameau de la President.
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Mediahohoho
06/02/09

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So Obama took his wife to the theater in New York, after working his ass off on the disaster that is America after 8 years of Republican fuckupery.

Meanwhile, by this time in his term, Bush had already taken close to 6 weeks off already making theater. Think that dick was an old ranch hand with a deep and abiding connection to the land? Bullshit.

Bush hasn't been back to Crawford since he left office and he'll never go again. His sole purpose for setting up the Redneck White House in the vicinity of Waco was to draw a sad parallel with that other actor-hack Ron Reagan and try to pawn off the highly unlikely proposition that George W was anything but a puffed up alcoholic frat boy pussy.
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MrInBetween
06/02/09

@Mediahohoho: Yes. Yes. And yes.
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DorothyBarker
06/03/09

@Mediahohoho: i like you.
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shag_carpet_bomb
06/03/09

@DorothyBarker: yay! and amen.
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Lazy Susan
06/03/09

@Mediahohoho: Sweetpea, have you been drinkin'? 'Cause I think 'puffed up alcoholic frat boy pussy' is some kinda genius.
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rockandhardPL
06/03/09

@Mediahohoho:Agreed on Bush, bad stop comparing him to Obama. Unless your by trying to figure out if Obama is good you say things like "great just Obama, you didn't lie to the country to start a war." We should presume a President will do the right thing, not just praise him because he did not do the incredibly wrong thing the other douche did.
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Mediahohoho
06/03/09

@rockandhardPL: I'm not comparing Obama to Bush (they're not even in the same league), I'm pointing out the hypocrisy of the critics of this particular event because comparable events by a politician they supported were not similarly criticized.

You get the difference, right?

Obama did a good thing this weekend, independent of any other comparisons.
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rockandhardPL
06/03/09

@Mediahohoho:I get it. And I agree, the comparison is fine if you are looking at the GOP when you are talking. The comparison is not fine when you are talking to a liberal such as myself who thought it was not a great move. I see the point on the NYC economy. And I also agree that it is the price of doing business since he needs security and travel costs. Either way, I think the guy is doing a great job. This one thing to meet looked like a bad PR move. But hey, he has to say "screw it, I'm President" every once in a while too right?
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Mediahohoho
06/03/09

@rockandhardPL: I don't think there is a "right" PR move to make to BO's critics. They will rag on everything he does, regardless. If he'd stayed home they would have complained about his "bunker mentality" or some such inanity.
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BonMorte
06/02/09

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Okay, yet another case of the dreaded liberal straw man being built. If Bush did something, the George Bush who is NO LONGER PRESIDENT, it makes it okay for the current president to do it. The one who said he was for everything that Bush wasn't.

So because Bush spent too much money, never claiming money was tight for the government, it is okay for Obama to blow 30 grand in 2 days? When he campaigned that his country was on the brink of financial ruin? When he maligned CEO's for spending lavishly as their companies went bankrupt, he does the same damn thing?

Who made The Cajun Boy a writer anyway? He was a subpar commenter from way back, he has moved up to subpar writer. Don't we at least deserve a Cajun Man?
Will SuperGoddess be the next writer Denton? Must we put up with articles about Lemon squares?
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Steve Holt's Mother Part Deux
06/02/09

@BonMorte: I just overheard Keifer Sutherland and Bill Murray talking about how they were planning to come over and give you a "brain kiss."
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johnny_carsick
06/02/09

@BonMorte: oh, please. if it weren't for straw men, there would be no republican party.
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MisterHippity
06/02/09

@BonMorte: Who made Cajun Boy a writer, you ask?

God did.

And on the seventh day, He rested.
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Go Like Hell Machine
06/02/09

@BonMorte: It's not a straw man. The same people who were quiet about Bush's ridiculous number of vacation days and obscene amounts spent on those vacations are now loudly decrying the Obama's night out.

And as posted in other places, they actually paid for their own dinner and the show. So, essentially, the only expense is the one mandated by the Secret Service.

As far as The Cajun Boy goes, he's also the one who broke the Mancow story last week. You know, the story that was highly critical of the OMGLUBRULSOCIALIST!!!1! types you constantly come here to complain about.

Come to think of it, who made you a commenter?
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Sargasm
06/02/09

@BonMorte: *yawn*. Jealous? It's showing.
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onebadclam
06/02/09

@BonMorte: Mmmmm! Lemon squares!
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Mediahohoho
06/03/09

@Go Like Hell Machine: Shh. Bon Morte doesn't actually know what a "straw man" argument means. He also doesn't get that the straw man in this case is the wanton and profligate chief executive who took his wife to dinner and a show over the weekend...(hysterical shriek) at taxpayer expense!
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leonleonleon
06/03/09

@BonMorte: *yawn* BonMorte, you are becoming quite the bore.
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theMoJo
06/03/09

@BonMorte: Your rational for Bush's expenses being a-ok and Obama's being not-so-much is that Bush isn't President anymore? Your argument about Bush spending much of his time on vacation being preferable to Obama taking his wife out for a night is that Obama is president now while Bush was president then?

You aren't becoming quite the bore; you have only ever been one. Go back to your teabagging, douchebag! :D
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BonMorte
06/03/09

@theMoJo: Where did I say it was a -ok? Anywhere? Oh, nowhere. Conservatives DID lament Bush and his profligate spending, it pretty much ruined the republican party. I am telling you right now, without reservation, I hated watching him spend money on wars and trips and social programs to get people to like him. Not one bit of it makes Obama and his spending any better.

That is the difference between sheep like yourself and these other "thoughtful" replies I recieved. I can actually critique something my party did, and mean it.
Obama could have burned a million dollars on the capital steps and you'd say he was fighting inflation.

The most annoying thing is all of the Cajun Boy's articles are the same thing: Obama good. This is what happens when southern transplants move north. They sooo want their northern liberal friends to know they aren't liked grandpappy cajun boy, lynching nergros and all. So everything white/southern they go out of their way to denigrate. Yawn.
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johnny_carsick
06/03/09

@BonMorte: awful presumptuous of you, BM.

the GOP seem unable to muster up any kind of meaningful critique (he's a secret muslim! he puts mustard on his burger! he used the word "empathy"!) other than that, in the midst of an economic crisis, he's spending too much money.

you may not have been a-ok with dubya pissing away our surplus and putting us in the red. fair enough. but when several of these righteously indignant "conservative" blowhards try to pull the economically conservative card after eight years of fiscal insanity, we call bullshit. and rightly so.
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ellagood
06/02/09

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i;ve said it before and i'll say it again...the best part of the date night was the fact that ernie hudson got himself in the news.

"i have seen shit that would turn your ass white!"
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kneetoe
06/02/09

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77 vacations in 8 years? Is this guy union? I bet he's got a pension.

Is Rick Santorum still a

'Republican," or is he just a guy who used to be in the Senate?
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The Cajun Boy
06/02/09

@kneetoe: I have no idea. That's why I just labeled him as a "conservative."
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Mediahohoho
06/03/09

@kneetoe: He hasn't pissed off Rush yet. He's still in the club.
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wholenuther
06/02/09

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Has Obama's presidency been such a huge early success that this is the best his haters can do? No new wars, terrible economic decisions or shockingly ignorant foreign policy decisions? Seven and a half more years please.
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onebadclam
06/02/09

@wholenuther: The expense controversy actually seems sane compared to other accusations being thrown about. Some blame him for not inviting the Queen to the French D-Day commemoration. Seriously.

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johnny_carsick
06/02/09

@wholenuther: DIJONGATE! NEVER FORGET!
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obfuscator
06/02/09

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no comparison here. bush was doing manly american stuff like cutting brush and wiping sweat off his furrowed brow and hitching up his wranglers. barry used our tax dollars to travel to the liberal east coast enclave known as jew york city, where he ate at some fancy arugula stand and saw some broadway show instead of going to the disney store and catching "terminator salvation".
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onebadclam
06/02/09

@obfuscator: And you know there probably were some gays in that show.
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Helman
06/02/09

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Well done.
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