The blatant hypocrisy of the new American aristocracy is on full display, but it isn’t getting any attention because of the orgasmic love affair between the mainstream media and the Rock Star Obamas. Notice the NBC puff piece on BO’s decision to pick St. Louis pizza instead of Chicago pizza for his latest tax payer funded White House party. So much for Uh-Bama’s promise to be a responsible steward of tax payer money. Once again, the liberal double standard rears its ugly head. If G.W. Bush so much as farted, the left and the mainstream media immediately labeled him an eco-terrorist. When Bill Clinton shut down the entire west coast air traffic system by delaying his takeoff so he could get a $200 haircut aboard Air Force 1 from some expensive LA hair stylist, did ANYONE on the left or the mainstream media criticize the millions of dollars wasted because of his arrogance? No. Is anyone on the left or in the mainstream media now talking about the waste, arrogance, and attitude of royalty displayed by the Obama’s in their waste of taxpayer money on their constant partying, makeup artists, expensive clothes (OK for Michelle at taxpayer expense, but not for Sarah Palin paid for by DONATIONS) and jet-setting around the world? Crickets. On to the next item of hypocrisy. Remember BO’s pandering to the environmental left and his push to implement carbon taxes on all fossil fuels? Cap and Trade? Carbon Credits? Carbon Foot Prints? Has anyone on the left or in the mainstream media said a word about how many tons of plant food (carbon dioxide green house gasses for you fools who think that man-made global warming is real) were put into the atmosphere for Obama’s benefit just to fly in a pizza chef AT TAX PAYER EXPENSE from St. Louis? Simon and Garfunkel singing “The Sound of Silence.” For crying out loud, he even lied about the dog he promised his kids. He said it had to be a dog from the Humane Society or similar facility, and it had to be a “mutt” like he was. Turns out to be a water dog given as a gift by the Kennedy’s. Does anyone besides me see the irony in that? I think the Kennedy’s water dog was named Mary-Jo.
Chicago deep dish diss?
Posted: Friday, April 10, 2009 1:30 PM by Mark Murray
Filed Under: Barack Obama
From NBC’s Danielle Weisberg
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Atlantic, President Obama was supposed to fly in a pizza chef to prepare lunch for his guests at the White House today. An ode to the trademark deep-dish pizza of his hometown Chicago?
Not quite.
The chef being flown in is Ryan Mangialardo, partner in St. Louis’s Pi restaurant. Obama declared Mangialardo’s pizza “the best pizza I’ve ever eaten” on the campaign trail last October.
While the president has displayed his Chicago loyalty — proudly sporting his White Sox baseball hat, rooting for Da Bears, cheering for the Bulls — some in the Windy City might be surprised about his pizza preference.
‘Glamorous’ Michelle Obama: Full-time Makeup Artist in White House
By Cathryn Friar
The transformation of Michelle Obama from angry and bitter candidate’s wife to fashionista icon of the world has been really remarkable to witness.
‘Glamour First’ seems to be the motto for the Obama White House and for First Lady Michelle Obama.
When looking at the above before and after pics, is there any doubt that Michelle Obama has had a heck of a lot of work done to soften and stylize her appearance since we first became aware of her two years ago? ‘The camera doesn’t lie’ as they say. We can see from the reshaping of her seriously wicked eyebrows, the adding of diva false eyelashes, and a trendy designer wardrobe that she looks completely different these days.
Now we’re told that Michelle Obama is the nation’s first First Lady to add a full-time makeup artist to her traveling entourage, according to the stylists who have worked with presidential wives over the past 16 years.
Her new makeup artist is Ingrid Grimes-Miles and she is behind the first of Michelle Obama’s make up reinventions – those scary eyebrows. It seems after the First Lady was criticized for looking angry, her high-arched eyebrows were reshaped to give her a ‘friendlier’ appearance. The overall make up goal for Michelle Obama? A more natural and polished look.
Make up, in Michelle Obama’s case, is a very good thing.
Seriously, we all want our First Family to have all they need to represent us well home and abroad. But Michelle Obama needs to prove she is more then someone who is simply a fashion icon. Many of us still view her as having a very complicated and difficult personality that includes being unpatriotic, quite angry with racist overtones, and definately bitter – all qualities that are completely unacceptable in a First Lady. Do they have reinventing stylists for this as well? Maybe.
Michelle Obama is first presidential wife to have full-time make-up artist on tour
Michelle Obama has become the first presidential wife to travel with a full-time make-up artist on tour as she wowed crowds in Europe recently.
By Our Foreign Staff
Last Updated: 6:12PM BST 13 Apr 2009
Hillary Clinton drew criticism for her padded Alice bands and ever-changing hairstyles, and Laura Bush’s sartorial choices were dismissed as dull and matronly. But while the US president’s words topped political agendas on his recent European tour, his wife’s elegant look dominated headlines.
As she faced millions of flashing cameras, the first lady came armed with false eyelashes, a pearl iridescent highlighter to accent the countours of her cheekbones, and subtle pink lipstick.
It has now emerged that the Mrs Obama’s polished glamour is thanks, in part, to Ingrid Grimes-Miles, a 49-year-old make-up artist she met in Chicago six years ago.
“No other first ladies have consistently travelled with a makeup artist,” Bernard Portelli, Hillary Clinton’s former hairdresser, told the New York Post .
As Americans tighten their belts in the midst of the financial crisis, the Obamas have gone to great lengths to adopt a relatively frugal approach to fashion. The first lady is a famous fan of US high street chain J. Crew, which she mixes with designer pieces.
Aware of the sensitivity about public spending during the recession – and of previous criticism of expensive political haircuts – the first couple paid for the expenses of having a make-up artist in their entourage out of their own pocket, according to a spokeswoman for Mrs Obama.
Even in difficult financial times, it might have been a wise investment.
Mrs Obama drew criticism on the campaign trail for looking “angry” following fiery comments that were interpreted as unpatriotic. Some critics even warned that her perceived anger would cost her husband the election.
But a few deft flicks of the tweezers later, Mrs Obama’s eyebrows had been trained into a gentler arc, giving her a friendlier appearance – a move style watchers have attributed to Mrs Grimes-Miles.
PROMISES, PROMISES: Is Obama dog a rescue or not?
By SHARON THEIMER – 3 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Is Bo a rescued dog or not? Did President Obama keep or break a campaign promise in picking the purebred as the family’s new pet?
The twists and turns of the Portuguese water dog’s route to the White House make for the kind of intrigue that political junkies and the highly opinionated dog world delight in.
Barack Obama and his wife Michelle said during the presidential campaign that they had promised their two girls a dog after the election.
The Obamas repeatedly said they wanted it to be a rescued dog such as one from a shelter. Their search was complicated by daughter Malia’s allergies, which would rule out many of the “mutts” the president has said he would prefer.
Enter Bo, a 6-month-old puppy given up by his first owner and matched with the Obamas through his breeders. Because he was given up by his first owner as a poor fit and is now with his second owners, the Obamas, but never spent time in a shelter or with a rescue group, Bo is a “quasi-rescue dog,” says Wayne Pacelle, chief executive of The Humane Society of the United States.
Here’s where the intrigue comes in:
_ Bo’s breeders happen to have bred Sen. Edward Kennedy’s Portuguese water dogs. The Massachusetts Democrat, an Obama friend and political ally, also acquired a pup from Bo’s litter. Bo’s breeders are fans of Obama and named Bo’s litter the Hope and Change litter.
_ Bo’s first owner lives in Washington.
_ Bo was returned to the breeder in early March, fitting the spring timeline the Obamas had given for their dog adoption.
_ Kennedy and his wife Victoria helped line Bo up with the Obamas. Before moving into the White House, the pup spent nearly a month with the Kennedys’ dog trainer in Virginia.
In fact, Bo is a gift to the Obamas’ daughters, Malia and Sasha, from the Kennedys, said Katie McCormick Lelyveld, a spokeswoman for Michelle Obama. The puppy officially arrives Tuesday.
“They were starting their search with shelter dogs, but when the Kennedys learned of this dog and offered it as a gift to the girls, they met the dog, it was a perfect fit for their lifestyle and for Malia’s health concerns,” she said, adding that the Obamas are making a donation to the Washington Humane Society. “Because this gift came before their pound search sort of was completed, they made a gift to some of the places they were looking.”
Still, conspiracy buffs might speculate that Bo was meant for the Obamas all along. Was his adoption engineered to look like a rescue — or at least blur the line to head off criticism that the Obamas had picked a purebred from a breeder?
The Humane Society’s Pacelle acknowledged that the Obamas never flat-out promised to get a dog from a pound or rescue group. And the society has kind words for Obama on its Web site: “Thanks, Mr. President, for giving a second-chance dog a forever home,” it says.
“He’s in a gray area,” Pacelle said of Bo. “But I will say that many animal advocates are disappointed that he (Obama) didn’t go to a shelter or breed rescue group, partly because he set that expectation and because so many activists are focused on trying to reduce the number of animals euthanized at shelters, and there’s no better person to make the case to the American public that you can get a great dog from a shelter than the president.”
The group later removed its congratulatory message and replaced it with: “First Dog Unveiled. Concerns about impact on shelters, demand for breed as Bo makes his debut.”
Bo could be considered rescued, since he was removed from a situation that wasn’t working, said Cesar Millan, host of the National Geographic Channel’s “The Dog Whisperer” and co-founder with his wife of a nonprofit foundation to help abused dogs.
To help Bo settle in, the Obamas should walk him a lot in the early days to bond with him, drain his energy and make him hungry for his meals, Millan said. That will give the dog a routine and help him see that the family is the source of his food, and he has to work for it, he said.
“The dog doesn’t know he just moved in with the president of the United States. The dog is going to say, `Who fulfilled my needs from day one, so who should I trust from day one?'” Millan said.
Bo’s breeder, Martha Stern of Boyd, Texas, said she doesn’t consider Bo a rescued dog. Owners of dogs from the kennel she and her husband run must sign contracts requiring them to return the dogs to the Sterns if they do not work out, she said. Bo went from his first home, in Washington, to the Kennedys’ trainer in Virginia, and now to the White House, she said.
Portuguese water dogs aren’t for everyone, Stern said. Known as PWDs, they tend to be high-energy “in-your-face” dogs that need a lot of attention, and their curly coats require a lot of maintenance, she said.
Stern said the first family did a lot of research and already knew the breed’s pros and cons, and that Victoria Kennedy was closely involved. Bo seemed like a good fit because the Obamas are an active family and have the resources to give him the training and other things he needs, Stern said.
“I wouldn’t say he’s excessively high in energy,” she said, but still a “little bit more than middle-of-the-road.”
“On a scale of five, he’s probably about three,” Stern said.
The dog’s non-shedding coat also makes him a good choice, given Malia Obama’s allergies.
Stern worries that puppy mills will try to capitalize on the Obamas’ dog choice and start churning out PWDs for an eager public. It’s the responsibility of good Portuguese water dog breeders to try to prevent that, she said.
As for Bo, he has already been neutered, Mrs. Obama’s spokeswoman said.
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Portuguese Water Dog Club of America: http://www.pwdca.org/
The Humane Society of the United States: http://www.hsus.org/
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The Wide Awake Patriot 
Obama Recovering After Closed Captioning ‘Mishap’
April fools? I don’t think so. As with all comedy, its foundations begin in truth. If you have seen the compilation of Obama’s teleprompter speech gaffs, especially when combined with his total lack of social grace (giving the Queen of England an iPod loaded with Obama speeches and BOWING to the King of Saudi Arabia as if he were a subject, which he may be) you will agree that Obama is nothing more than an empty suit, totally devoid of CONSTRUCTIVE ideas.
Obama Recovering After Closed Captioning ‘Mishap’
by Mac Johnson (more by this author)
Posted 04/01/2009 ET
Updated 04/02/2009 ET
Bethesda, Md. — Doctors were said to be treating President Barack Obama at Bethesda Naval Hospital today for exhaustion and possible vocal cord injuries after a freak television accident occurred at the White House Tuesday evening.
Closed Captioning Counseling
According to a statement read by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, President Obama, noted for his near total dependence on the teleprompter when speaking, was leaving a practice session for an upcoming press conference when he happened upon a muted television set near the White House Briefing Room on which someone had activated the “closed captioning” function.
“Apparently, Mr. Obama mistook the captioning for his new flat screen teleprompter and began reading the text aloud,” Gibbs said. Gibbs stated that “what followed was a tragic marathon speaking session that lasted for nearly 14 hours before staff discovered Obama and disconnected the device.”
The President’s accidental filibuster was said to have included a 2-hour episode of “The Biggest Loser,” a much anticipated “Law and Order: Special Victim’s Unit,” the local evening news, and a late night paid infomercial for “natural male enhancement.” The press later described Obama’s reading of the captioning as “eloquent” (New York Times), “historic” (CNN), and “emotionally moving” (Newsweek).
This event comes on the heels of several embarrassing teleprompter gaffes by Obama, including one in which he thanked himself for being invited to the United States when he accidentally read the teleprompter text intended for the visiting Prime Minister of Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day, his repeated mispronunciation of the written word “Orion” at an event for Orion Energy in Milwaukee (staff had apparently neglected to spell it phonetically on his teleprompter), a little reported campaign event in which Obama’s thoughts disappeared with his flickering teleprompter image, and a news conference in which Obama responded to complaints about his addiction to the teleprompter blocking the view of photographers by having a giant flat screen TV installed on the back wall and reading his thoughts from that.
When asked for an explanation of how such an event could occur to the President of the United States, Gibbs responded, “That’s a good question. We’re investigating now. How anyone could leave the closed captioning on like that is just inexplicable. The White House staff should know better by now.”
A source at Bethesda Naval Hospital, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the President was doing fine, but was “quite hoarse” and getting some much needed rest ever since doctors turned the screen on his heart monitor around so that he couldn’t read it anymore. “Before that he just kept saying ‘Heart rate 98, Heart rate 97, Heart rate 98…’” the source said, adding, “It was kind of weird, but since we removed that he’s been OK. Although I’d hate to see what would happen to this guy if someone accidentally left him alone in the room with the crawler on the Fox News Channel.”
Another source at the hospital commented that Obama’s dependence on the teleprompter was predictable given his earlier self-admitted addiction to his Blackberry, or “Crackberry,” as it is popularly known. “Those Blackberrys are like a gateway drug,” the source said. He added, “First you’re getting your jokes and ideas from that apparently harmless little toy, and the next thing you know, you can’t even speak like an adult unless someone feeds you your thoughts word for word on a giant television monitor hung right in front of your face. It’s sad — just sad.”
“Oh, and Happy April Fools’ Day.”
Cartoon by Brett Noel.
Mr. Johnson, a writer and medical researcher in Cambridge, Mass., is a regular contributor to HUMAN EVENTS. His column generally appears on Tuesdays. Archives and additional material can be found at www.macjohnson.com.
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