RETRACTION, October 21, 2008: ROOM DISSERVICE
THE source who told us last week about Michelle Obama getting lobster and caviar delivered to her room at the Waldorf-Astoria must have been under the influence of a mind-altering drug. She was not even staying at the Waldorf. We regret the mistake, and our former source is going to regret it, too. Bread and water would be too good for such disinformation.________________
That was quite a performance that Michelle Obama delivered when she addressed the Democratic National Convention.
Of course, she talked a little bit about her husband Barack. She said they were both from working-class families, struggling to pay the bills, living by working-class values.
Ordinary folks.
That was the message. The Obamas are just like us.
One problem with that: They aren't.
And they aren't blue-collar. Their modest roots belie what they have become and where they are now.
Yes, Michelle and Barack have come a long way.
No more shopping at Target for them. No more student loans to pay off.
From the New York Post:
THOUGH he's battling GOP accusations that he's an Ivy League elitist, Barack Obama has a lifestyle of the rich and famous, like TV show host Robin Leach, who always signed off, "Champagne wishes and caviar dreams!" While he was at a meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Michelle Obama called room service and ordered lobster hors d'oeuvres, two whole steamed lobsters, Iranian caviar and champagne, a tipster told Page Six.
Apparently, Barack will sit down with Iranian caviar without preconditions.
We know Obama wants to "spread the wealth around."
Is he willing to "spread his Iranian caviar around," too?
Will Obama share? I mean really share, not just a few crumbs. Shouldn't everyone eat the same food?
Why should Michelle and Barack Obama be in a position to order that extravagant stuff? I couldn't afford to stay at the Waldorf-Astoria, much less order room service, much less order lobster, caviar and champagne.
It's not that I want to punish his success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind Obama, that they've got a chance for caviar too. My attitude is that if the caviar's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody ... I think when you spread the caviar around, it's good for everybody."
We all have a right to caviar.
Right?
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If true, funny, pointless but funny. Since page 6 reported this, i would assume false cause page 6 is about as accurate as keith olberman.
Feodor,
I warned you. Be civil.
Barry's parents were what? Blue collar workers? Hardly. His grandmother (a "typical white person") was upper management at a bank in Hawaii.
Michelle's father was well connected in the Chicago Democratic political machine. He was able to obtain a well paid engineering job at Chicago's water plant. Her family was middle-class.
Now Barry and Michelle, through Chicago machine politics, have obtained wealth and notoriety. Michelle sat on Boards, Barry sent $$$ their way and then the boards rewarded Michelle.
This is the trouble. Barry supporters have, in their own minds, formed some romantic notion of what this guy is; when in actuality we know nothing about him. He's disavowed everything in his past (even refusing to tell anybody what he did during his years at Columbia). He's accomplished exactly nothing. I'll be darned if I can see what makes the guy think he's even remotely to be President of the United States and Leader of the Free World.
Don't forget about the part of Michelle's Chicago law firm time of employmentwhere she met and became friends with Bernardine Dohrn.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMprFmkdgkY
The Obamas are hypocrites.
Here's a good one from the primary, pre-tingle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGeu_4Ekx-o
Michelle Obama joined Sidley & Austin as an associate in the fall of 1988. She had previously been a summer associate at Sidley & Austin—evidently in the summer of 1987.
According to Wikipedia, Bernardine Dohrn worked for Sidley & Austin from 1984 to 1988, while she unsuccessfully sought admission to the New York and Illinois bars. (According to Sidley’s managing partner, Dohrn didn’t get admitted to the bar because “She wouldn’t say she’s sorry” for her acts of domestic terrorism.) It appears that Dohrn first worked in Sidley’s New York office, and then in its Chicago office.
Bottom line is that we'll never know anything about any of the Obamas' relationships. They aren't talking. The Kool-Aid drinker can rationalize all they want, it still doesn't change what Obama was, is and always will be.
I traced the Google cash for the New York Post article.
http://fairlyconservative.com/obama/obama-spread-the-wealth-and-pass-the-caviar/
I'm surprised that the Post removed the page so quickly.
That's weird.
Pressure from the Obama camp?
Was it an inaccurate report?
PROOF: The Obamas will be eating the breakfast of champions while the idiots that vote for B. Hussein Obama & put him in office will be eating the lunch of chumps.
If you’re anyone with a brain who works for a living; why in hell would you vote for someone who professes to “spread the wealth around a little bit”??? The taxes won’t start at $250,000 (remember - Barry wants to eliminate the FICA cap, which means anyone who makes from $105k to $250k will be taxed an additional 6.2% - GOTCHA #1!!).
Also, if you are one of the “middle class” who works for an evil rich small business owner who can’t either hire you (GOTCHA #2 - 100% increase in your taxes!) or give you your normal 4% annual raise (GOTCHA #3 - 4% raise in your taxes!) due to the increase in their taxes - you need to pull your head out of the sand and think again! YOU ARE BEING TAXED TOO!!!!!
Want to see what the economy will look like under B. Hussein Obama?? LQQK AT MICHIGAN!!! The same tax programs were put in place by a democrat governor and state legislature and put Michigan into an economic tailspin.
Why else would B. Hussein Obama say he will put his program on hold until the economy improves??? HE KNOWS THAT IT WILL DAMAGE THE US ECONOMY!!!
The liberals say McCain is Term 3 of Bush - Obama will be TERM 2 OF JIMMY CARTER!!! Enjoy 10% unemployment, stagflation and 0% productivity!!
I wish I could afford food like lobster, caviar and Champane. I have to settle for second best so the upper crust can eat first class on my dime.
I think everyone who reads all these comments should rally a cry so loud that the whole country could hear it and DEMAND that Barack Obama locate the poorest community in the USA and lease a fleet of Greyhound busses to transport all of the residents to a stadium or other site that has the capeability to house the crowd. There should be Lobster, Caviar and drink of choice catered to all.
I can't think of a better way to show the people of America that he really wants to "SPREAD THE WEALTH AROUND". Let us see what happens. I believe HE IS ALL BLOW AND NO GO.
Page Six has retracted this story.
I'm sure all the commenters here will extend Michelle their apoligies.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10212008/gossip/pagesix/room_disservice_134490.htm
Too bad it's not true... NY Post retracted the story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/10212008/gossip/pagesix/room_disservice_134490.htm
Surprise surprise, turns out somebody made the whole thing up! http://www.nypost.com/seven/10212008/gossip/pagesix/room_disservice_134490.htm
And just like that, the comments stop.
RETRACTION. APOLOGY. NOW.
Anything else would be "in the tank".
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