As an aside, I was a cast member in Sugar Babies during Reagan’s visit that you spoke of. He came backstage during intermission and, I believe, he had to leave early before the end of the performance. There were a lot of interesting stories concerning Secret Service during that visit.

I’m a Democrat and shook Ford’s hand twice and Reagan’s hand once (long story). I still keep washing my hands. I never shook the hand of a Democratic president whick could explain why I still have my wrist-watch.

I hope you enjoyed the performance.

The hole in the comment by FWG is that the following night there was an event in Lincoln Center iïn honor´ of Ronald Reagan. Since he was being honored, obviously, he had to be in New York, so they went a day earlier to take in the play. It was nothing like the junket that Obama took.

Obambi needs to grow up a little. He sought the isolation of the Presidency and he has a responsibility to weather it like a man. Currently, he acts more like a kid with a new toy at best or an arrogant rock star at worst.

this Obama administration is far more like a sitcom than a workable governing executive branch.

Nah. Sitcoms are canceled when nobody likes it. We have to live with this and the disasterous results that come with it.

Fort Worth Guy,

The reason this is not remotely similar to your Reagan anecdote is because Ronald Reagan didnt go around scolding Americans for their expenditures. Reagan didnt say it was unacceptable that Americans use 20% of the worlds energy while being only 5% of the worlds population. Reagan didnt tell us that we couldnt turn up our thermostats and eat whatever we want and never would have, ESPECIALLY while turning the White House thermostats up to tropical levels and flying in Wagyu beef from Japan and Pizza from Chicago to feed himself and his fellow thugs.

Reagan didnt tell us we need to consume less; he didnt complain about Americans buying too much on credit while adding million dollar date nights to the over ten trillion dollars in debt he has already heaped on the backs of Americans.

Obama did all these things.

Bruce,

Your estimates leave out the cost of motorcades and security. Im betting the total cost to taxpayers for Obamas “date night” was well over a million.

No, there isn’t. Let your leftists like Soros and others who are spending billions to force inferior government healthcare on the rest of us pay for it themselves.

Obama Party healthcare can be summed up very simply: “By law, I am going to require you to pay me $1 for healthcare whether you want to or not. I, on the other hand, need only give you in exchange an IOU that you can redeem at a later time of my choosing for the amount that I decide you should get, with no recourse whatsoever if you don’t like my decision.”

Obama and the Obama Party want to be able to take the trillions of dollars that Americans currently spend on healthcare and direct it to their pet welfare projects, like giving Obama’s illegal immigrant aunt free housing and welfare checks, because they know those welfare addicts will then kick back campaign contributions and votes. It has nothing to do with healthcare; it’s simply an attempt, like Social Security, to open up a new channel by which Obama can get money from us today which he doesn’t necessarily have to pay back tomorrow.

Since you have time on your hands, perhaps you’d like to follow up from other posts the challenge you have.

Seen how President Obama has done such a great job for the state of Ohio? thousands of jobs lost.

Not going to be as long as you hope. Just don’t know if it’s because the people throw the bums out, there’s no country left, or the Black Panthers won’t let us vote.

And then there is the issue of health care, per chance. And how does the marriage issue impact on that?

Hey, it has been a long four days. I’m sure playing golf on memorial day didn’t refresh him at all.

1 – GWB worked while in Crawford. Many foreign leaders visited him there.

2 – NO president in my lifetime that I can recall used the resources of the Federal government, took the media with them, on a ONE-DAY personal junket!

3 – There are PLENTY of Broadway-level theaters in DC.

4 – Liberals who are excusing Obama on this junket are showing themselves to be morally and intellectually bankrupt. No getting around it.

Further a “date night” is hardly a vacation so…I think you might need to think this through

Obama is working his little buns off to make us all environmentally correct, but he’s completely unwilling to model the behavior he wishes us to adopt.

Of course, Nancy Pelosi is just as adamant about “saving the planet” and wants us all to inventory our lives to see what each of us can do to diminish our carbon footprint. Inventory your own life, Nan; lead by example.

You too, Barack. Show us how it’s done.