Conga-Lines… Bare-Chested Beer Pong… Super Soaker Fights… The Good Times Keep Rolling Along For Obama White House Officials
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, June 10, 2010, 4:55 AM
Back in January 2009, Barack Obama told Americans that,
“Everyone must sacrifice… Everyone must have some skin in the game.”
Well… Everyone but Barack and Michelle Obama.
Guests gather for the entertainment segment of a state dinner in honor of President of Mexico Felipe Calderon inside a party tent on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, May 19, 2010. (Reuters)
In 2009 the Obamas spent over $10 million of taxpayer money on drunken White House parties.
And, it doesn’t look like things are going to slow down anytime soon.
The New York Post reported, via Free Republic.
Last week’s jobs report tanked the stock market; the president took weeks to assert control of the oil spill that threatens doom on the Gulf Coast — but at the White House the Gatsby-like parties roll on as if happy days were here again.
Just yesterday, President Obama held another fun-filled White House event, a picnic for Congress members, complete with hot dogs, cold beverages and a fire pit.
All told, during the last seven weeks of spewing oil and rampant unemployment, he has frolicked and danced through three major White House music parties.
* The black-tie tent bash on the White House South Lawn after the state dinner for Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón, which featured singer Beyoncé.
* The Paul McCartney hootenanny — a night of tributes to the former Beatle, which featured the president himself scooting onto the dance floor to join the Jonas Brothers in the long “la-la-la” closing refrain of “Hey Jude.” (Plus, of course, McCartney serenading the first lady with “Michelle.”)
* The Ford Theater event — in which the president, taking a break from “kicking ass” on the oil spill, kicked back and relaxed to the song stylings of one-time “American Idol” winner Kelly Clarkson, among other B-listers.
It was one thing when the president launched his White House days with a round of Martini Wednesdays, Stevie Wonder concerts, conga-line dancing and Super Bowl parties. That was before the gushing oil and before the employment picture defied the Obama hope-and-change cures.
Now it’s different. Now the president’s fascination with fun and parties in the midst of crisis has not only reinforced a feeling he’s out of touch, but has migrated down the chain of command.
Last weekend, Vice President Joe Biden and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel held a “super soaker” squirt-gun party at the veep’s residence. Everybody ran around giggling and shooting squirt guns at each other. Members of the press covering Biden joined in, to their shame.
And last Sunday, presidential spokesman Tommy Vietor and Obama speechwriter extraordinaire Jon Favreau, both 29 years old, were spotted at a Georgetown bar, stripped to the waist, playing a game of beer pong with a gang of bare-chested buddies. (This game involves throwing a ping-pong ball into cups of beer — loser drinks beer, winner drinks beer, everybody drinks beer.
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BigAlSouth commented:
Thank God the adults are in charge.
Sy commented:
WTF? I’m trying to figure out how to pay for my kid to go to college next year and telling her to buckle down when she goes. And this? This is how they piss my money away. Actually I’ll be long dead when they need to repay the borrowing so let me rephrase that: this us how they piss my kid’s money away?
It appears we (myself excluded) elected Brittney Spears / Lindsey Lohan.
burt commented:
Some animals at the farm are more equal than others. Life under communism.
neomom commented:
It’s good to be king.
daryl commented:
Obama has tried his Jimmy Carter phase, his Chavez phase, and his Castro phase.
Just wait until he morphs into his “kick-ass” Papa Doc or Idi Amin phase.
Slider commented:
As someone on this site posted before…
They party until we puke
Granny commented:
Rome. Nero. Fiddles.
daryl commented:
A bit ot but you gotta see this!
YouTube – OBAMA SINGS KICK ASS SONG?!?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yghFBt-fXmw&feature=player_embedded
Chisum commented:
The Alien in the White House
The distance between the president and the people is beginning to be revealed.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703302604575294231631318728.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
myohmy commented:
Of course, they have to soak up taxpayer’s money. They know they are only one termer regime. Obama will give us the finger after he has done with us.
Melvin Winter commented:
Seems like there’s a disconnect: Obama’s Original Birth Certificate Shows He is a Citizen of Qu’Ri-Sen-tai in the Epsilon Eridani System http://optoons.blogspot.com/2010/06/obamas-original-birth-certificate-shows.html
Valerie commented:
The Obama Administration ratcheted up its demands on Wednesday that BP PLC cover all costs stemming from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, including millions of dollars in salaries of oil-industry workers laid off because of the federal moratorium on deepwater drilling.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704575304575296263469609340.html
If this story is true, it is time to start impeachment proceedings.
In the meantime, Congress needs to hear from us that robbing private companies to pay for the consequences of the inaction/stupid action of our government is unacceptable, and unAmerican.
BP is not responsible for the Federal Government’s abject failure to take action to mitigate the oil spill.
BP is not responsible for the Federal Government’s failure of oversight (granting the waiver) followed by its overcorrection (ban on deepwater drilling.)
The Obama administration is directly responsible for impoverishing communities in our coastal states by failing to implement known, reasonably effective strategies to mitigate the damage of a spill.
It is not a failure of technology, or of materials, or of supplies, but a political decision to exacerbate damage.
A private company that did this could be sued, and could well have individual decision-makers sent to prison.
mrt commented:
“Just yesterday, President Obama held another fun-filled White House event, a picnic for Congress members, complete with hot dogs, cold beverages and a fire pit.”
10 bucks says this administration only serves
all-BEEF franks.
Betsy Ross commented:
In dunno….having a hard time here imagining Dick Cheney and Karl Rove giggling and chasing each other with super soakers….
Geez….we are in deep, deep, do-do with these clowns at the helm…
Marie Antoinette commented:
Let them eat cake!
Neo commented:
Don’t you know they’re talking about a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
thomas b. commented:
Just like in every other socialist, communist nation, the political elite party while the masses suffer.
Socialism isn’t about social justice, it’s about power. Power to dominate over the masses. Much like Kim Jong Il in North Korea. While he and his family enjoy the riches, the masses starve. Social justice.
Mats commented:
“(Plus, of course, McCartney serenading the first lady with “Michelle.”)
Wow! How much wine did he have before singing to that woman?
Estragon commented:
Ahem.
“Hey Jude” ends with a long chorus of “na na na nananana, nananana …” etc. NOT “la la la”.
There’s not a “la” to be found. Obama has made more decisive calls as President than there are “la’s” in “Hey Jude.”
If you had layers and layers of editors and fact-checkers you wouldn’t make such mistakes.
OxyCon commented:
Obama is the fifth Beatle, don’t you know?
http://s699.photobucket.com/albums/vv353/OxyCon/?action=view¤t=FifthBeatle.jpg
Paddy commented:
The only equitable manner for all Americans to have some skin in the game is to amend the tax code to change rates so that every working person will pay some income tax. This could go a long way towards reducing the deficit.
Key West commented:
Someone put together this video and it is damning to say the least. It pretty much sums up what you’ve posted here. I wish we had true leadership.
http://travelingwoodbury.blogspot.com/2010/06/timeline-devastating.html
DocScience commented:
This is where an arrogant assumption of self-superiority leads.
They are ENTITLED to party, just because they are morally superior.
Just like they are entitled to commit crimes in the pursuit of their own agenda.
Chisum commented:
Pence to Obama: Whose side are you on, anyway?
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/10/pence-to-obama-whose-side-are-you-on-anyway/
Excellent question!
Taxpayer1234 commented:
KeyWest, that is an awesome video! Thanks for the link.
Andrew B commented:
Where are the grown-ups? 29 years old and playing shirtless beer pong in public? Oh, for Christ’s sake! When I was 29 I was working 80 hours a week for slave wages and was too tired to play beer pong when I got off work. And the fate of the Free World did not hinge on my performance.
Maybe we can graduate to panty raids and spin-the-bottle in time for the Iranian annihilation of Israel. That will be comforting.
Joanne commented:
No wonder Obama was told to stop drinking so much – he is a party animal………but don’t worry, he feels the pain of all those struggling to keep their heads afloat, and he thanks all those who are still able to contribute to his paarrrtttty fund via taxes. This is so sickening to watch.
les douty commented:
Your header indicates this is a Christian website. Your content and the kind of lies you publish indicates otherwise.