London Times on Barack and Michelle Obama: Mr&Mrs show irks voters
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, November 1, 2009, 11:20 AM
The state-run media’s Michelle and Barack Show is starting to irk voters.
The media’s fluff pieces on the Obamas are starting to backfire.
The Times Online reported:
With difficult state elections and a crucial military decision looming, President Barack Obama sat down with his wife Michelle last month to give an in-depth magazine interview about a subject that has hitherto not ranked highly on the White House political agenda — the state of the first couple’s marriage.
The president used the occasion to complain that when he recently hopped aboard Air Force One to fly his wife to New York for dinner and a Broadway show, “people made it into a political issue”.
Obama went on to insist that his marriage was “separate and apart from a lot of the silliness of Washington”. He then proceeded to discuss his romantic ups and downs in startling detail with a reporter from The New York Times Magazine.
Publication of that unusually candid interview highlighted an intriguing contradiction that has begun to haunt the Obama White House. The president’s family has become one of his most valuable political assets. Yet the attempts by the Obamas to shield their private lives from scrutiny are increasingly being subverted — by the Obamas themselves.
When the interview appeared on the paper’s website ahead of publication today, it prompted a flood of reader reactions from “They are a beautiful couple” and “exceptional role models” to “Why should I care about their marriage?” and “This stuff is none of my business”.
ADVERTISEMENT
-
Featured Story:
Horrible… Obama Tells Foolish Supporters: I’m Not Over-Spending… “I’m Running to Pay Down Our Debt”
Published May 23, 2012 at 11:51 pm - 50 Comments
redc1c4 commented:
if he wants his family life to be private, let him go back to being a private citizen. that way, he can live in his house, not ours (the White House belongs to the citizens, not the President), and if he wants to take his wife out, he can, but he’ll have to pay for it, not us.
Ear Leader is a whinny little “never was”, and he would be out of his depth in a damp spot on the concrete. the sooner he’s out of office, the better off we’ll all be.
Freddy commented:
All ego, all the time. Look for a reality tv show after they leave office.
The Elector of Saxony commented:
What irks people is that the President and his fawning, tingling, media lap dogs, are so utterly unserious. 10% unemployment? Date night! American troops on the ground in Afghanistan being killed on a daily basis, waiting for their C in C to send reinforcements? Family photo shoot and fawning romantic profile time!
When the President finds some time for his job, maybe people will be winning to give him some slack on the private life? He didn’t even bother to put forward any specifics for “his” health care plan! This isn’t the Senate, Mr. Obama. You actually have to come to work.
The Elector of Saxony commented:
winning=wiLLing. Doh!
Sasja commented:
President and Mrs. Whine. What a pair.
serpent commented:
The president uses his wife and kids as political props and they become fair game. After the treatment Sarah Palin and her children received last year, I don’t think anything is out of bounds anymore.
liberalsabide commented:
It was inevitable that people would tire of seeing president billy mays everywhere.
AuntieMadder commented:
And they called GWB stupid and intellectually incurious. Go figure.
Sally commented:
I don’t look at the $47,000. date as political. I think is it absurd they spent that much with the economy and the jobless rate in the country. This isn’t their bank account to spend freely on whims, and if they think that, I want my money back.
a soon-to-be-former-democrat commented:
The Obamas are extrememly vain and ignorant people….. sat in a church with “God Damn America” sermons..
Who knows where Obama’s loyalty lies? This is the same man who in 2001 in ON RECORD saying he believes “the US constitution is fundamentally flawed”
so he pledges to defend the founding principles of this country? the same principles written on a document that he thinks is “fundamentally flawed”?!?!?!?
This is why I am no longer a democrat, after being a democrat for over 3 decades… no longer Liberman left too… if you pro-america, pro-Us military, pro-freemarket, pro-indiv. rights, agn socialized care, for smaller govt, and lower taxes.. you are NOT welcome in the undemocratic party any longer…
this is the marxist party now… even JFK would think it too radical/loony left to be a party off.
jas commented:
Now there’s another good policy advisor, admitted America hater Michelle.
TheScribbler commented:
No one cares about his ‘private’ life, if he wouldn’t use his wife and family as photo ops then no one would think twice about it. People are struggling to survive and Obama’s constant flaunting of his ‘living the good life’ is starting to really tick people off.
Opus #6 commented:
How many hours of actual work does he put in per day? Should we install a time clock in the White House?
antisocialist commented:
I just read the Times piece – had to wipe away a little tear, to think of poor MO having to play second-fiddle to Dear Leader; and, to think that anyone would question his display of devotion to his beloved i.e. spending $47,000 of his employers’ money to take her on a lovely and previously promised date night! The nerve!!! Why, one would think the electorate expected Mr. Obama to behave like a president, instead of The President. Heavens!!
AuntieMadder commented:
Opus #6
November 1st, 2009 | 1:09 pm | #17
How many hours of actual work does he put in per day? Should we install a time clock in the White House?
Only if we put in surveillance cameras to make sure he’s actually working and not just perusing porn and playing solitaire on his laptop while at his desk.
Daniel commented:
Work? Where? When?
He can’t even make a simple decision about supporting his Gen. McChrystal, or not.
Failed President. Indeed.
averagemelon commented:
Obama has not worked a single day in his life and he certainly has no plans to start now.
Please keep in mind that everything uttered from Dear Leader’s lips has been a lie so far thus I am NOT believing he has a happy marriage. I think he is bisexual and he no longer prefers Michelle. He never gets off Air Force One long enough to make it to the White House bedroom.
MochaLite commented:
I disagree with those who say Obama is not working. He clearly is working – to (in his own words) “fundamentally change America.”
Obama disdains our country and wants it to be made over in his image. This is a sad period for our great nation.
LimoLibsStink commented:
0bama:
No, I don’t want to talk about the economy, the troops or the taxpayers. They suck.
But, my arguments with Michelle and my Jumbo Jet junkets are very important. Let, the troops and the taxpayers eat cake. Now, I will talk about my wife… and our Jumbo Jet.
Moright commented:
You bet it’s political: you’re the President. First Whiners left that behind when they decided to run for the Presidency. Last I checked they decided to run for office.