March 5, 2009, - 6:05 pm
Obama Tacky: Prez Who Whines Against CEO Perks & Salaries/Urges Belt-Tightening, Buys Gauche $3,500 Swingset for Daughters; UPDATE: Swing Set is $10,000?!
By Debbie Schlussel
**** SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATE: Obama Swing Set Might Have Cost $10,000 ***
As I’ve written over and over again on this site, the Obamas have no sense of decency or self-discipline. They just don’t have any sensitivity to what the rest of America is going through. And they’re not the “regular people” the press keeps telling us that they are.
President Obama whines on about and rails against high salaries and perks of CEOs and tells us all we must tighten our belts. Yet, he sends his kids to a school that costs him about $55,000 a year (where they dine on roast Atlantic salmon and cheese and crackers), and Mrs. Obama just hired a hifalutin designer to re-decorate the White House residence to the tune of $100,000.
But their latest purchase in this era of tough times for most other Americans is the new swing set the Obamas bought their daughters, to the tune of $3,500 plus. It’s also their tackiest.
To most Americans, a $3,500 swing set–let alone anything for $3,500–is far out of reach. While most American kids don’t even have swing sets, those who do generally have something far more modest than this showy display. For all of Mrs. Obama’s bragging to the press how her girls are going to have to make their beds and will be treated like regular kids, it was all bunk. Her kids got a swing set befitting the spoiled kids of rich elitists she claims they aren’t.
And it’s just plain tacky. When your country is suffering, when people are losing their jobs and homes en mass, their investments are plummeting, and you are telling Americans to do more with less and tighten their belts . . . you rub their noses in it by buying your kiddies a backyard toy for nearly four grand?! Talk about hypocrisy.
Gauche to the nth.
I believe Americans should be able to do and spend with their own money as they please, but since Barack Obama is telling us otherwise and taxing us to death, he should take a little of his own advice–like cutting his spending and not purchasing the swingset of gazillionaires.
The Obama purchase of the Rainbow Castle Package 4 is excessive for liberals who are taxing everyone else to death and telling us to eat cake, while tightening our belts. It’s not only hypocritical, it’s a bad example.
Even more glaring is the fact that instead of pointing this out, the mainstream media fawns over this swing set, gushing about what great parents the Obamas are for buying this monstrosity. You know, the same media yelling and whining and screaming about anyone else with money actually spending it on anything.
Play the politics of class-envy and hate the rich . . . but only when they’re not surnamed Obama.
**** UPDATE, 03/06/09: Reader Mike writes that the press is low-balling the cost of the Obama swingset, and that it apparently costs $10,000.
You are way off about the price of that swingset. I’ve priced them out. There is no way that cost $3,500. (I know, I bought one from rainbow a few years back) That set shown has to have cost way over 10K.
For what its worth.
Mike
$10,000 for a swingset for his kids in this economy, while he’s telling everyone else in America to tighten their belts while he taxes them to death?!
Whoa, that’s chutzpah.
I guess it started with Maria Antoinette. These people never think that they have to follow the same rules as the rest of us, and they are so egocentric that it never occurs to them that they should at least maintain some kind of appearance of subdued living.
Their egos make it impossible to empathize with the rest of us. The press is a combination of big egos themselves, or a desire to identify with those having big egos. They think if they write glowingly of Obama somehow it will rub off on them like osmosis. The overwhelming majority of the press is second-rate or third-rate with nothing to distinguish them, so they look for form over substance.
c f on March 5, 2009 at 8:23 pm