Obamas Celebrate Valentine’s Day at Restaurant of Oprah’s Chef

I used to support President Barack Obama, but I can’t believe that he would rather have dinner with his wifey than go help the children freezing to death in Kentucky this Valentines Day. This is just like George Bush on Hurricane Katrina. Same thing, no change. We need a President that cares about the little guys, not tax them into oblivion so he can give his billionaire banker friends $900,000,000,000.00. We need Palin. PUMA!

Obamcrat for Palin – good point. I was pretty stunned when 9 days went by in Kentucky and half a million people still didn’t have power or water and FEMA wasn’t doing much and the media gave Obama a complete pass on it. Obama never even mentioned Kentucky or the people suffering there.
Apparently he was too busy hiring more tax cheats and lobbyists to serve in his cabinet to worry about the little guy in Kentucky.

Obamacrat for Palin, the man has a right to have dinner with his wife. Also, when Katrina happened Bush helped out a great deal!!!!!

Peach: ” Obama never even mentioned Kentucky or the people suffering there.”
My God, you are such a liar.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Jan. 29, 2009) –
President Barack Obama last night approved Gov. Steve Beshear’s request for an emergency Presidential Disaster Declaration that will expedite assistance to people in need across the commonwealth.
“President Obama called me last night to express his concern about the plight facing our state and many of our people. I appreciate the president’s quick response to our request for a disaster declaration,” Gov. Beshear said as he traveled throughout Western Kentucky to meet with local officials and survey damage to the region. “We will move quickly to bring power generators, communications equipment and debris removal equipment into the region to help restore power and protect our people in their time of need.”

Regardless whether you voted for the man or not, I didn’t, it is none of our business what he does in his free time. Or where he eats. Wealth envy is something society breeds into people, and it is a very nasty, disgusting thing. His responsibility to us is to do his job. Our responsibility to ourselves is to do our jobs. If everyone did this, and quit worrying about what someone was “giving” them, we would all be better off. This country has turned into a contingent of victims. Waiting for their next handout. I do think Pres. Obama has been given a pass, in re Kentucky, he waited 9 days to even comment on the situation. However, just like with Pres. Bush, it is a local government’s job first. The local government must first ask for assistance from the federal government. Which is what people didn’t/couldn’t understand when Katrina happened. It started with a failure at the local level. Starting with the city government, then state. As for Obama’s dinner out, all President’s dine out, if they so chooose. Most don’t eat at Burger King.

Denisea213 still hasn’t grasped the concept of spending and stimulus.

So let me get this straight: The President flies AF1 to Chicago to close down city streets so people can’t get thru, to go to a restaurant which presumably had to deny all paying customers so he could go out to dinner, all on our dime during “the worst financial crisis since the last depression”.
Heck of a job electing this guy liberals!

High-end chefs in a crippling recession? Not very good PR after the stimulus debacle…

It is only a matter of time before the public gets it about President Obama’s hypocritical behavior regarding the economy and education, etc.

Good for the President and First Lady….recognizing the “core” of their relationship. Good for them!
Haters shut up, and drink your Mountain Dew.

This man is a bigger joke everyday and hopefully one of these days people will take their bnders off to see what a complete joke of leaders we’ve put into office! So much for urgency! Pass it NOW! No timee to debate it! I want it on my desk now! Yet he goes off on vacation and can’t be bothered to sign it till Tuesday! I don’t care if he wants to have dinner w/ his wife but the man
is so stuck on himself he doesn’t even see the inconvenience he puts others through. Shut down Chicago airport, keep flying all those ‘green miles’ and putting his ‘green footprints’ everywhere! Right, hypocrisy at it’s best! Joke! How does anyone believe a word he or his staff utters? The more he says it’s transparent, the MORE it’s NOT! Remember the phrase ‘thou protest too much’….wake up people!

When is Obama going to become president?

So you can imagine how stunned I was to read in the NYT that Obama’s senior advisor, David Axelrod, said that Obama keeps the White House at greenhouse levels. He said Obama likes it warm and you “could grow orchids in here”.
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Peach- I bet you read it on the vitriolic Michelle Malkin’s blog. She apparently ran with the NYT article.
Did you also read that he comes to work at 9:00 AM, after he’s worked out and helped send the girls off the school. In contrast, Bush came in two hours later, then later slipped out after lunch for a workout. Obama also woks till 10 PM. It’s a relief to see someone with a good work ethic back in the WH. And if keeping it warm in the WH makes him for comfortable with those long days he pulls, then so what? Besides,Peach, do you really think there is only one thermostat for the entire Whitehouse?
Your complaint reminds me of the SNL skit last night about the Republicans brainstorming to find a talking point against Obama. What other petty points do you have to blow up?

Do as I say, not as I do.
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But factually did he really say this-
“Obama told us last year we could no longer drive our SUV’s and heat our homes at 72 degrees.”
Obama literally commanding the nation not to drive their SUV’s and heat their homes at 72 degrees?

OMG — date nite for the President and First Lady — at Oprah’s restaurant, no less. What exciting executive office news will happen next? I am on the very edge of my roller chair….

Chicago’s a great town for food and chefs. Plus, it’s generally cheaper than NYC.

Kathy, dear, let’s be careful with our facts if we are going to get snippy at other posters for supposedly not keeping their facts straight. I see that someone has already provided you with the Obama 72 degrees quote. Now let me address some of your other points:
You began, “Peach- I bet you read it on the vitriolic Michelle Malkin’s blog. She apparently ran with the NYT article.” Umm, some of us actually read the NYT article. Are you implying that the Axelrod quote came from the blog rather than the NYT? If not, what does it matter where Peach got her info, if that info is factually correct? I have never read Ms. Malkin’s blog, so I don’t know how she “ran” with the article, but I read the article and picked up on the quote right away myself. I’m not surprised a conservative columnist/ blogger would pick up on it as well.
Then you started to go off the tracks in a major way, writing, “Did you also read that he comes to work at 9:00 AM, after he’s worked out and helped send the girls off the school. In contrast, Bush came in two hours later, then later slipped out after lunch for a workout. Obama also woks till 10 PM. It’s a relief to see someone with a good work ethic back in the WH.” Umm, let’s check the Bush Derangement Syndrome at the door, shall we, and look at the facts. In your rush to make value judgments about the two presidents, you misrepresented Bush’s schedule, stating that he came in 2 hours after 9 am, that is, 11 a.m. I think you got confused while reading the NYT article. (Maybe you just got the highlights and paraphrases off some blog?*G*) The article clearly states, “Although his presidency is barely a week old, some of Mr. Obama’s work habits are already becoming clear. He shows up at the Oval Office shortly before 9 in the morning, roughly two hours later than his early-to-bed, early-to-rise predecessor.” TWO HOURS LATER– get it. Bush was famous for being at his desk by 7 AM, NOT 11. See, the article is saying that Bush started earlier in the day and that Obama works later at night. Different strokes, you know? And then you snarl about Bush exercising every day, when the article points out that Obama works out each morning. The only difference seems to be that Bush would work in the early hours then take an exercise break while Obama exercises first thing in the morning and then goes to work. Again, different people have different styles. One schedule is not superior to the other. Please note, I am not criticizing Obama for his schedule– I could care less whether he exercises before or after his daily briefings, believe me.
Having finished venting about Bush, you then end with a justification for President Obama doing whatever he wants, regardless of what he urges others to do. Guess you really do believe, unlike Obama, that there are two sets of rules. You said, “And if keeping it warm in the WH makes him for comfortable with those long days he pulls, then so what?” So what? Peach’s point was that such behavior was hypocritical given his lecturing Americans on wasting energy and expecting the rest of the world to be okay with that. So your “Besides, Peach, do you really think there is only one thermostat for the entire Whitehouse?” is really wide of the mark. It does not matter whether he only keeps his own office at hothouse temps or whether he keeps the whole building that way– it matters that he said we should not be selfish with our energy use and “heat our homes at 72 degrees and expect the rest of the world to say okay. That’s not going to happen. That’s not leadership.” The president is the one who said that was not leadership, not peach and not me.

Is he not allowed to spend time with his wife now that he is president? His wife is a part of his family. How can he not spend time with her?
I don’t understand the comments of people here. His ‘vacation’ is the weekend and President’s day. He took his wife out to dinner and you can argue that it is the tax payer money but just so you know, the POTUS actually receives a salary, not to mention Obama had top selling books for ages.
He has addressed the Kentucky situation and will be signing the stimulus package on Tuesday. People need to stop nitpicking. So he goes to the office later than Bush. Does that mean he’s horrible? He got more done the past few weeks than Bush has done in ages. And for those of you who think hypocrisy is new and shocking- you’re only kidding yourself.

To Kit Hogen,
Stop hating on the Obamas. If you want to stop eating at mcdonalds for dates then go to law school, edit the Law Review, marry a lawyer,and write two best selling books. Whether Barak and Michelle Obama are in the White House or
a private house in on the south side of Chicago, their educational and professiional achievements give them the right to eat at any d— restaurant they want to!

Kathy, before I walk out the door, let me add one more idea to our ongoing discussion. You graciously admit your statement about the start of Bush’s work day was in error, but you still want to say that “barry works harder than george.” Does President Obama spend more time in the office than President Bush did? I do not think we can really know whether or not that is true, nor do I really care. They make decisions, not widgets, so their work resists quantification.
But also, as many have observed here, the job of president is a 24/7 position and either man does/did a lot of the ‘work” of being president in setting other than the Oval Office.
Let me relate an example from my own experience. I am a professor (and a small business co-owner, which is another story for another day). My spouse is the driving force behind our small business. This morning, he got up early as he always does and was in his shop by 6:00 am, building and repairing things. He will be at that most of the day and by the end of the day will have a pile of material to show for his labors. Me? I slept in until 7. I will be in the classroom later today, which most of my students think is the only place I do any work. *G* Luckily, my husband knows better. But I digress. I did not go into the office right away, but while I was walking the dog and taking my shower, I composed a homework assignment in my head. While I was indulging my internet fix and posting here, I opened a file on my computer where I have jotted several ideas for an upcoming lecture. As I drive into town in a few moments, I will rehearse my first lecture of the day. In some ways, I have been at work since I got up this morning, but to outward appearances, I have not. Has my spouse worked harder than I have? Physically, yes. But that will always be true. Has he spent more hours on the job than I have? That’s open to interpretation. At the end of the day, I will not have anything easily quantifiable to show for the hours I have spent “professoring.” Does that mean I have not done my job?

Moderate-It’s not so much the 500 days spent at the Crawford ranch that has so many concerned about GWB’s work ethic, but matters like his administration not responding to an Aug. 6, 2001PDB, which stated Bin Laden was determined to strike in the US with possible hijacking attempts. Or Bush playing golf and going to McCain’s birthday party on the day the New Orleans levee broke. No matter your profession or work, you are expected to take a preventative approach –like a restaurant manager seeing to that the food supplies and products are adequate for the public, or an aviation mechanic helping to insure a safe flight. Many Americans have seen neither an adequate preventative approach or emergency response to the emergencies the nation’s faced.
If you don’t like boxes, then don’t be so quick to throw around terms like the Bush Derangement Syndrome to perspectives and opinions that are personally disliked. It’s not much better than the rallying cries of baby killer that have been directed towards me on this blog.

I just want to know where the outrage was when President Bush spent nearly 3 years of his presidency between his ranch in Crawford and Camp David? It seems most of the people responding angrily to this post are either hypocrites or are just plain jealous. He is the president of the United States and he decided to take his wife out to a nice dinner because IT’S VALENTINE’S DAY! Both the president and his wife came from humble beginnings, studied hard, worked hard, and are now living the ULTIMATE American Dream. Are people this angry because here you have two young black people enjoying a nice night out at a good restaurant that most of the angry responders to this post can’t afford to eat at? People, lets disagree with president because of policy and substance and not because we are jealous of 2 black people who made it big and you haven’t.