Everyone Must Sacrifice… Obamas Spend $10 Million of Taxpayer Money on Drunken White House Parties
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, June 7, 2010, 9:02 PM
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.
Canada Free Press reported, via FOX Nation:
The same hypocrite who says our energy costs must “necessarily skyrocket” to fund his political ambition, is giving Marie Antoinette a run for her money when it comes to spending national treasure on personal luxuries.
While much of the country is struggling to pay their bills, the President and First Lady are partying like rock royalty. The collection of talent that has made the pilgrimage to the White House to entertain Obama and friends is nothing less than amazing: Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Tony Bennet, Paul Simon, Marc Anthony, Herbie Hancock, Martina McBride, Queen Latifah, The Foo Fighters, Faith Hill, and recently foot-in-mouth Paul McCartney to name a few.
This has the makings to be the greatest ongoing concert series ever to be seen on this Earth just to entertain one man … all paid for by the American taxpayer.
…The executive branch does not provide detailed information regarding entertainment expenses, however, it has been estimated the Obamas spent at least $10 million on “drunken White House parties” in 2009 alone.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 89 Comments
Lily commented:
I’ve been curious about this – I’m sure they’ve wasted a LOT of money on parties. But the article only says, “it has been estimated” By whom? Need back up
Taxpayer1234 commented:
I agree, some backup is needed. Any professional event planners out there who might take a stab at a price tag?
Wbm commented:
Need some skin in the game eh? Appearantly not Obama’s…………
Bob commented:
Hey give Obama a break. It is very stressful to destroy America. He needs to relax.
Lily commented:
So the White House doesn’t release cost information? Why not? If I’m paying for a lot of chi-chi parties, why don’t I get to see the bill? Why do they get to order tents, dance floors, fancy food in secret? Where is the transparency?
Dim Bulb commented:
Marie Antoinette’s philosophy: “Let them eat cake.”
Obama’s philosophy: “Let them eat twenty dollar a pound organically grown kale.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/17/AR2009091703679.html
USMC Thomas commented:
Typical welfare recipient attitude, grab all you can while you can.
gus commented:
Obama is a sociopathic narcissist.
He doesn’t relate to anyone and he has no conscience.
Robert commented:
I know whose ass to kick.
myohmy commented:
The only people who got stimulus money are Wall Streets, unions and people who entertain King Obama.
CLN commented:
Beer pong is pretty cheap, Bamster needs to switch to beer pong and the likes of McCartney wouldn’t know the difference anyway.
And with vegetarian McCartney he was able to scrimp on the kobe beef.
Nellie commented:
I’d rather have him partying than working on just about anything.
Dave In Houston commented:
I think the idea is that we are supposed to marvel how classy and cool and sophisticated and just plain glamorous the Obamas are; Camelot has come again.
As with all things in this administration, the timing is off, the tone is off key, the message is bungled and feeling is just plain wrong.
jainphx commented:
Lets see exactly what this POS has done to this country, just look around, is any state in the black or under 10% unemployment. Has the world become less dangerous, oh I don’t know, how about Iran? Have they stopped refining uranium for an atom bomb, or North Korea, have they shown less aggression to the south. Israel, are they still being backed by America, or did we cut them off at the knees. How about the oil leak, has he called in all available experts to put their heads together to stop the flow. Has the economy improved since he suckered us with the bail outs? How about the auto industry, has that improved? Has the ocean level receded. Well then it’s time to party turn the peoples house into a damn nightclub, spend MILLIONS of money we don’t have, just so this POS can hobnob with the Hollywood elite. Move along no grounds for impeachment here. LORD forgive me, but I hate this whole evil administration.
Me commented:
November can’t come soon enough, I hope the newly elected congress start impeachment as the first line of business on thier agenda..
Iconoclast commented:
Given the tackiness these entitlement grifters have displayed over the last decade or so, the intrinsic chicago corruption and the unmitigated hubris repeatedly demonstrated . . . we taxpayers are fortunate the bill is not ten ** BILLION ** dollars.
Me commented:
New Congress: show me the birth certificate and school records.
Obama Admin: Go pound sand.
New Congress: You’re fired
Sojourner commented:
… for your listening pleasure, Comrade Zero:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY3spl48_0Y&feature=player_embedded
Go Right commented:
New Congress: Show us the records on jobs offered to the democraps not to run for the congress/senate.
Obama to Congress: do you want me to come down and kick your ass? You know I can.
New Congress: You’re Fired!!!
jainphx commented:
This miserable excuse of a man has insulted all our traditional allies. Stabbed Poland in the back by stopping missile defense promised by Bush. Shown the soles of his feet to Israel, kept Bibi waiting in the oval office while he went to dinner with his family. Sent back the sculpture of Winston Churchill, gave the Queen tapes of HIS speeches. Bowed to the scum in Saudi Arabia, sat through a 45 minute diatribe by the scum bag Chaves taring down his own country and never said one word in our defense. I could go on and on but the more I think the madder I get.
Me commented:
Let’s not forget the damn helth care he rammed down our throats and all the other ilegal sh-t he had the evil ones on capital hill push through.. Yes, let’s not forget the damn helth care, stimulas that our kids, grankids will be paying for..oh and let’s not forget the damn terror attacks on his watch that he would Im sure loved to see more of us small Americans go up in smoke.. keep it going ( all the great damnable things Obumer has done since in office.
nuff said
wanumba commented:
It’s definitely more than $10 million. $100 a pound steaks for 300 guests, plus caviar, the booze, “organic vegetables” miraculously out of Michelle’s organic White House garden in November. That’s ONE party, not counting rented heated tents, rugs, chandeliers, chairs, tables, decorating.
They fly in chefs from all over, they use “sustainably harvested magnolia branches” which is what? As if rube gardeners chop an entire tree down for couple twigs to put on a dining table.
Belchazzar comes in second to this power couple’s gluttonist consumption of the national wealth.
Mene mene tekel uparsin …
newton commented:
“It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
jainphx commented:
Belchazzar Was found wanting and destroyed in one night, we should be so lucky.
Go Right commented:
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This is just a random snapshot to give you an idea.
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Good clean fun. May we suggest ruining the clean part by including the game Asses Barry Licked# ?
jainphx commented:
How can you kick someone else’s butt, when yours is getting kicked all over the world. Oh and you have really big ears.
Steve commented:
It is good to be king.
Just_Saying commented:
So, Wanumba #23, what is the deal with the tents and rugs? Is Obummer just letting go some of his Arab, or what?
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ProLifer commented:
Psalm 73
How good God is to the upright, the Lord, to those who are clean of heart!
But, as for me, I lost my balance; my feet all but slipped,
Because I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
For they suffer no pain; their bodies are healthy and sleek.
They are free of the burdens of life; they are not afflicted like others.
Thus pride adorns them as a necklace; violence clothes them as a robe.
Out of their stupidity comes sin; evil thoughts flood their hearts.
They scoff and spout their malice; from on high they utter threats.
They set their mouths against the heavens, their tongues roam the earth.
So my people turn to them and drink deeply of their words.
They say, “Does God really know?” “Does the Most High have any knowledge?”
Such, then, are the wicked, always carefree, increasing their wealth.
Is it in vain that I have kept my heart clean, washed my hands in innocence?
For I am afflicted day after day, chastised every morning.
Had I thought, “I will speak as they do,” I would have betrayed your people.
Though I tried to understand all this, it was too difficult for me,
Till I entered the sanctuary of God and came to understand their end.
You set them, indeed, on a slippery road; you hurl them down to ruin.
How suddenly they are devastated; undone by disasters forever!
They are like a dream after waking, Lord, dismissed like shadows when you arise.
Since my heart was embittered and my soul deeply wounded,
I was stupid and could not understand; I was like a brute beast in your presence.
Yet I am always with you; you take hold of my right hand.
With your counsel you guide me, and at the end receive me with honor.
Whom else have I in the heavens? None beside you delights me on earth.
Though my flesh and my heart fail, God is the rock of my heart, my portion forever.
But those who are far from you perish; you destroy those unfaithful to you.
As for me, to be near God is my good, to make the Lord GOD my refuge.
I shall declare all your works in the gates of daughter Zion.
wanumba commented:
Just_Saying
June 7th, 2010 | 11:12 pm | #30
So, Wanumba #23, what is the deal with the tents and rugs? Is Obummer just letting go some of his Arab, or what?
……………
His inner I don’t know what. His parties are so big they are held OUTSIDE all the time – LUXURY outside.
I’ve been grumbing about this excess and the media’s societypage narrative about it for some time – they are covering for him:
http://sonoranalliance.com/2009/11/25/why-is-manmohan-singh-in-washington/
Do a search of that “state dinner” and there are plenty of photos. Chandeliers in tents … I don’t care what anyone says, that ain’t right.
jerryl commented:
yep thats obama the party in chief
sliderblaze commented:
Party today, gone tomorrow
wanumba commented:
What’s a bit spooky is they party like there’s no tommorrow … they know something they ain’t telling?
Bunni commented:
Emperor Nero….errr ZERO has to spend all OUR tax money entertaining himself.
Fiddling while Rome burns comes to mind.
Opus #6 commented:
Obama wants to party like it’s 1999.
The Tea Party wants to party like it’s 1775.
Andreas K. commented:
Dim Bulb
June 7th, 2010 | 9:23 pm | #6
Marie Antoinette’s philosophy: “Let them eat cake.”
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Which she never said. Another French queen said that, about 50+ years before her.
But yes, that’s his way.
Though, look at history. Eventually the peasants with the pitchforks had enough. Time to party like in 1773, or maybe even 1789?
Remeber, the French Revolution started out good. They threw out the king, tried to install democracy following some of the ideals the French had observed in America. Sadly the radicals took over after that and it turned into a slaughterhouse.
Andreas K. commented:
BTW… you know what else this reminds me of?
All animals are equal. Just some animals are more equal than others.
John Frum commented:
Something needs to be said… Does anyone really think he got a well rounded education in western civ? He was learning about shaka zulu and about the evil white man all those years.
Neither him, nor Michelle know jack squat about the French revolution… nevermind Marie Antoinette
Dim Bulb commented:
Andreas K. I’m aware of the MA mythology, but beginning the post with the words “Some queen who lived about fifty years before Marie Antoinette…”sounded a bit clumsy.
LimoLibsStink commented:
0bama:
Let me be clear. Everyone must sacrifice… Everyone must have some skin in the game.
As you know $10 million dollar is a huge amount of money for parties at the White House. But, Barney Franks butt is huge.
We bought the most expensive wine and booze then mixed them in a punch bow and colored it pink. Barney stuck his head in and sucked most of it up. The rest went to my special guests. That’s called spreading the Wealth around to the Wealthy.
Barney pulled down is pants and we all had a grand time giving him wedgies… well fists for the women… except Hillary, she used her broom stick.
Yes, it was messy but it was fun… and Barney got a some donations. I feel certain that I sacrificed also… my own butt was sore for a week. Everyone got some skin in this game.
I know it might sound a little two-faced that I was wastefully spending the Taxpayer’s money on booze and butt wedgies while tell them the opposite. So, what?
Let not turn this thing in to another Wedgie Gate. I can say my spending and Barney’s butt help the economy to some small degree…in DC.
My goodness, how time flies! Not, like the flies buzzing around Barney Frank butt! My gas guzzling Limousine is running and I can’t answer any more questions. Good day.
JD commented:
You can argue about the cost estimate, but there is not much to contest in recognizing a clear sense of entitlement on the part of Barack and Michelle Obama.
Their behavior is outrageous and contemptible.
Earl Holt III commented:
This imbecile will make Jimmy Carter look good by the time he’s ushered out of the White House and into a prison cell…
Subadar Lal Kukhri commented:
Eat, drink and be merry, he’s going to the kick (to $10 a gallon) our gasoline/oil @$$ next.
squeaky commented:
they are what they accused others of being. they’re the evil government they warned us about.
mike191 commented:
Andreas K has a point about the Jacobins and the French Revolution.The committe of Public Safety is a community organizer’s wet dream.However,one of its founders,marot,fell to his own creation.The radicals of the leftbank of Paris and those of Chicago are eerie similar,except Obama is not as bright and/or clever as the leaders of the jacobins.
Granny commented:
The Won’s latest party – held just this week – was followed by an evening of musical entertainment that is supposed to be aired on ABC soon. Still half asleep and I can’t find the link to the exact details, but rest assured, I will be boycotting ABC over this and hope that everyone else will join me in that.
BigAlSouth commented:
Barry and his crowd are the best example of what real socialism is all about: The “Ruling Class” with the fine parties, and then the rest of us, the working class. (There is always the third class, the Parasite Class, found in every economic system.).
Ginger commented:
In November his party money will be cut short!
Arch commented:
Often when I travel on business, my wife comes along, but with three conditions. First, I pay for her trip. Second, my customers or suppliers are not to be burdened with supporting her. Finally, she entertains herself while I’m working.
In Paris while I was briefing the French Air Force, I left her in the hotel near La Madeleine. When I got back, she told me she had “found” this huge plaza. Judy speaks German and Japanese, but not French. It was, of course, the Place de la Concorde which she insisted on showing me immediately. We walked down Rue Royale to a monument in the square. When she asked me to translate the plaque, I told her “Marie Antoinette’s head landed here.”
Perhaps we should build our guillotine at the base of the Washington Monument, conveniently located near both the White House and the Capitol. GM could build the tumbrels.
bill-tb commented:
Obama’s putting on good show for welfare America, grab all you can. It’s now getting obvious who is getting screwed here.
Mrs. X commented:
This makes me so mad, I don’t know what to say. But, what have they already spent in 2010? This estimate is for 2009.
Folks, we have only just begun to see the destruction of our economy unless something seriously changes.
Arch commented:
Seriously, on his last physical, the doctors recommended Obama “moderate” his alcohol consumption. The implication was that he has a drinking problem.
The President of the United States has the National Command Authority – control of our nuclear weapons. Who serves as National Command Authority while Obama is impaired? Biden?
The thought of that should make everyone sleep better.
Sherry commented:
Now now.
The President is making a great sacrifice on our behalf.
He hangs out with all those b-list actors so we won’t have to watch them on television. He listens to people like Sir Paul and for 18 months, he’s put up with Helen Thomas.
It’s not easy. But He bravely parties on so we don’t have to.
Kevin P commented:
I want to know how much Madame Pelosi’s private air fleet (a.k.a. the U.S. Air Force) has spent ferrying her and her spoiled family around the world – and contract that with the preverious Republican Speaker of the House.
squeaky commented:
who would’ve guessed that “skin” in the game
was actually “skinning” the populace. much like
how they handle sharks as they cut off their fins
for shark fin soup.
daryl commented:
Inside that austere, presidential exterior is a Mr. Bojangles just squirming to get out in the tent and dance, and kick some right wing ass (.)
Andreas K. commented:
Maybe he means the sacrifice differently?
Like in, uh… human sacrifices?
Joanne commented:
Obama is King of America – and the people can eat cake.
J.W. Cox commented:
Dear Mr. Hoft,
This is junk news.
The Canada Free Press link doesn’t even pretend to be a news story — it offers pure opinion, pure speculation without, as far as I can see a single fact, or even a pretense of fact, let alone a real source.
There’s no source for the “drunken parties” comment to take the most egregious example.
There’s no comparable listing of who appeared as guests during the Bush or even Clinton White House; and no comparison of what those administrations spent on entertainment during their first 18 months.
I didn’t vote for Obama; I deplore his policies.
But this is tripe.
Sandy commented:
Obama is a Grouchomarxist. He will spend $10 Million on parties honoring himself — while forcing the rest of us to sacrifice for the greater good. The White House jokes about how easy it was to fool us.
Sandy commented:
Joanne — American Thinker had a great article the other day comparing Obama to Marie Antoinette. It was called LET EM EAT TAR BALLS.
Chisum commented:
BARACK OBAMAS DAY OFF
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/barack_obamas_day_off.html
OxyCon commented:
Obama behaves as if the White House is his own personal playground and he’s the host (ala Dean Martin) of his own TV variety show.
Also, the campaign commericals of Hillary and McCain are converging in real life. When it’s “3:00 AM” and the phones rings, Obama is busy hamming it up on stage like he’s the fifth Beatle, hanging out with all the other “celebrities.”
A_Nonny_Mouse commented:
Obama said “Everyone must sacrifice… Everyone must have some skin in the game.” And now you’re hollerin’ on him for not quite doing the “sacrifice” thing…
Well, DUH! Use your head!!
The Won isn’t “everyone”. His posse isn’t “everyone”.
He’s SPECIAL, and he DESERVES to share the good times on our public dollars with his best buds, and that’s just the way it is.
You clueless peons.
bg commented:
++
wanumba @ 11:30 pm #32
re: [I don’t care what anyone says, that ain’t right.]
my educated guess or not, i’d say he’s doin’ Gaddafi light..
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bg commented:
++
re: bg #69
eh, GP has more photos linked via Rueters here..
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bg commented:
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J.W. Cox @ 9:38 am #62
Everyone Must Sacrifice… Obamas Spend $10 Million
of Taxpayer Money on Koolaid White House Parties
better now??
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Ray commented:
Obama – a black man with no class or intelligence (muslim) living in a white house.
Also known as section 8 – just temporary quarters until his taxpayer funded voucher runs out.
But until that time comes he will be slamming down a colt 45 whie sitting back and shouting spend, spend, spend.
Oh and by the way the economy is getting better with all of those jobs he is saving or creating. Watch for a spike in unemployment in the future as gov’t temp jobs go by the wayside.
We have your number Obama and your time is at hand.
Ray commented:
Let’s crash the party. Hell, ain’t we paying fo it. Cool it’s not a byob party. Top shelf booze and all the organic vegetables we can eat.
Harmony grits and black eyed peas. I think not.
Beer and peanuts. Oh yeh.
What an f—-ing A—hole. But then again what did all of you people who voted for him expect.
Especially theJewish communtiy. I hope all of the Jews that voted for him understand the term being thrown under the bus means. Obama is intent on destroying both the United States and Israel all at once.
John commented:
#62 is quite correct, this may be fun, but its not helpful. Scrub the “drunken party” headline, you didn’t back it up.