MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2015
Obama’s Treating Air Force One Like an Uber Ride
Yesterday, Obama won The Blower’s Liberal Liar Award after the Daily Caller reported Weasel Zippers had revived an old video of Obama promising NOT TO TAKE VACATIONS if he were to be elected president. That video featured then-Senator Obama discussing his book “The Audacity Of Hope” with New York Times columnist Bob Herbert in 2008. The future Worst President in History was talking about how those running for president needed to be prepared to “give their life to it.” “The bargain that any president strikes with is, you give me this office and in turn my, fears, doubts, insecurities, foibles, need for sleep, family life, vacations, leisure is gone,” Obama said. “I am giving myself to you.”
What a Bunch of Bullshit that was, because that was more than $70 million worth of over-taxed payer funded vacations ago and God knows how many gazillion dollars worth of golf games.
This morning, one of The Blower’s Senior Snitches sent us a copy of that March 10 Judicial Watch Report (Obama Family’s 2014 Christmas Vacation in Hawaii Cost Taxpayers $3,672,798 in Transportation Expenses) giving some detail to Obama’s Historic Hypocrisy, including:
Martha’s Vineyard August, 2014 Vacation Cost $400,666.30 in Transportation
$2,425,085.50 were Spent in Transportation Expenses for Obama’s July, 2014 West Coast Fundraising Trip
Obama Hawaii Christmas vacations over the past three years have cost taxpayers $15,540,515.10 in travel expenses alone
Obama’s fundraising trips were also deemed inappropriate by some because of the heavy burden they place on American over-taxed payers forced to foot the majority of the bill for explicitly DemocRAT fundraisers. According to campaign finance laws, the DNC only has to pay the equivalent of a commercial airline ticket to fly Obama, while over-taxed payers must pay for the lion’s share of Air Force One’s operating cost.
According to the Washington Examiner, in March “the first family had racked up 38 holidays, working vacations, and fun trips like a date night in New York. They were on par to take at least 45 holidays before leaving office.”
“The Obamas’ travel has always been out of control. They are treating the Air Force One like an Uber ride. Our military deserves better. The Secret Service is stretched to the breaking point by President’s Obama’s abusive travel,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “And President Obama seems oblivious to the burden he is placing on Americans with his continuous vacations, getaways, and political junkets at over-taxed payer expense.”
All of this is something else our So-Called Republican Leadership in Congress could’ve done something about, if they weren’t taking so much time off for themselves and totally caving in to Obama and the Disingenuous DemocRATS at every opportunity on the day’s they’re actually in session.
In June, Donald Trump said he may be a globe-trotting entrepreneur and reality star, but if elected to the White House, he plans on staying put. “I would rarely leave the White House because there’s so much work to be done. I would not be a president who took vacations. I would not be a president that takes time off,” Trump told The Hill. “You don’t have time to take time off.”
Isn’t that pretty much what Obama promised BEFORE he was elected?
