Seems to me that if it gets you that upset there must be some fundamental truth you would prefer the American people not hear or see.

P.S. You haven’t heard the call to curtail spending?

Did you bother to read this post? I’ll repeat the subhead as obviously you missed it in your haste to comment:

Remember this? Obama scolded corporate executives: “You can’t get corporate jets. You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas, or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers’ dime.”

“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said. “That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen,” he added.

But I’m heartened by what I’m seeing: by the willingness of old adversaries to seek out new partnerships; by the progress we’ve made these past months to address many of our toughest challenges. And I’m confident that as a nation we will learn the lessons of our recent past and that we will elevate again those values at the heart of our success as a people: hard work over the easy buck, responsibility over recklessness, and, yes, moderation over extravagance.

And to show the double standard, here’s a few headlines for ya:

Headlines for Bush’s Inauguration:

“Republicans spending $42 million on inauguration while troops die in unarmored Humvees”

“Bush extravagance exceeds any reason during tough economic times”

“Fat cats get their $42 million inauguration party, Ordinary Americans get the shaft”

Headlines for Obama’s Inauguration:

“Historic Obama Inauguration will cost only $120 million”

“Obama Spends $120 million on inauguration; America Needs A Big Party”

“Obama shows America how to celebrate”

As for Gore, you won’t find me bending over backwards to defend him…

Fit, you’re missing the point. I don’t think anyone would begrudge President and Mrs. Obama the right to a night out on the taxpayers dime. It has to be one of, if not the most difficult jobs in the world. I actually think it’s great that his has date night with his wife, seriously.

My problem is with him telling everyone else to knock off their extravagant spending while he and the congress (democrats and republicans) completely ignore that advice. It is an elitist attitude. It’s like Gore telling everyone to drive battery cars and turn their thermostats to uncomfortable settings while he jets around the world in a private plane and sucks up have the TVA power grid with his estate.

obama is repeatedly displaying how out of touch he is with the average American and what a ragingly selfish elitest he is.

For him to be spending hundreds of thousands of dollars when thousands of people are losing their jobs each month is disgusting. Almost as bad is how the left defends him for something they would have crucified Bush for.

But you do provide another good example of the hysterical media bias and liberal hypocrisy.

Sadly, Democrats wrote the rules on attacking a President and now that Obama is in office they want to change them. AGAIN.

But does anyone really think that if we simply ignored this story, or Sotomayor’s racist rant that Dems would treat Republicans any better next time we are in the White House?