Frugal Café Blog Zone

Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on January 8, 2010

H/T to Diary of a Mad Conservative:

I love it! Now all of a sudden he’s concerned about appearances. He spent $4000/night sleeping in a house in Hawaii, how many millions of dollars for staff, secret service, golf, snorkeling…. blah blah blah, and now – NOW – he cares how his spending will appear to the nation?

Beyond displayed photos of the Obama family and some random art pieces and a bowl of apples, I’m guessing that it didn’t occur to POTUS to spend gazillions to “remake” the Oval Office… “remaking America” is a real time hog. He’s far too busy out on the golf course, the gym, and the ice cream parlor, as well as vacationing every few months and bashing America overseas, to be spending much time in the office, anyway.

And, Obama already sent back to England that annoying national gift of a bust of anti-socialist Sir Winston Churchill… so frugality likely has little to nothing to do with BHO’s Oval Office decor.

Associated Press: Inside Obama’s Oval Office | January 2010

I am glad (and a bit surprised) BHO decided to keep using the historic 19th-century “Resolute desk.” It was a gift from Queen Victoria to Pres. Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 and was built from the timbers of a British barque-rigged ship, the HMS Resolute.

Other Obama travel, vacation, overspending, and US economy stuff:
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Prez Spendthrift: Luxury Hawaiian Mansion for the Obamas’ Christmas Vacation (video) and The Obamas’ Personal Debt vs. Obama’s Demand That Americans Cut Back and Screwball Comedy: White House Misspells Barack Obama’s Name on US-Russian Document, Plus More Obama Snubs & Gaffes in Moscow: UPDATE: Michelle’s $6,000 Purse and Ringleader Obama & His Giant Circus of 500 Go to Europe for G20 Summit and Party Boy Obama Livin’ It Up Like Royalty While Americans Struggle to Buy Food and Barack & Michelle’s Saturday Night Date… Finally, the REAL Cost to Taxpayers Revealed | Video Update: WH Press Sec Gibbs Dodges Reporter’s “Date Night” Cost Question and What Recession? Barack & Michelle on a Date, Fly to NYC for Broadway Play | UPDATE: Cost Breakdown of Date from UK and Not Frugal: Obama’s Valentine’s Day Splurge at Chicago’s Table 52
Pundit and Pundette: A getaway that costs an arm or a leg
Brad Wilmouth, NewsBusters: ABC Details Obama’s $4,000/Day, Two-Week Christmas Vacation
The Lonely Conservative: The Same Media that Bashed Bush for Vacations Makes Excuses for Obama
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: Obama’s Hawaii vacation – $4,000 PER DAY, started planning in September
Phelim McAleer & Ann McElhinney, Big Hollywood: Come Fly With Me | Obama’s Broadway date and Eco-Hyprocrisy
Gateway Pundit: How’s That Hopenchange Feel Now? Youth Unemployment Surges to Record High and First Family to America: Everyone Must Sacrifice, Everyone Must Have Some Skin in the Game… We’ll Be In Hawaii and Angela Merkel Speaks Out In Support of Iranian Freedom Protesters… Obama Heads to the Beach and Obama Upset With Commoners For Criticizing His $74,000 Date Night and Obama Visits Vacation Resort in Ramadi
Obi’s Sister: Telling Signs
Ben Smith, Politico: Back to Hawaii
ABC News: Obamas’ Martha’s Vineyard Vacation May Ground Some Businesses and Luxury Getaways for the President: Martha’s Vineyard and Beyond
Katherine Bradley, Heritage.org: Twelve Anti-Family Gifts from Congress
Gathering of Eagles: NY: Barack Obama Vacations While Economy Tanks
Scared Monkeys: Michelle Obama… It’s in the Shoes… Especially Those $540 Lanvin sneakers… Nice Image in Face of Depression… Let them wear Keds
Michelle Malkin: Spendapalooza: The Obamas’ vacation at Martha’s Vineyard
Reuters, Front Row Washington: Obama’s Date Night on Broadway
Hot Air: Blaming Obama for the night on Broadway? and Obama vows: I have not yet begun to destroy the economy
Mail Online.uk: How Obamas’ romantic £120 trip to Broadway racked up a £45,000 bill — ..that’s for three private jets, two helicopter rides, extra planes for security and closing roads for motorcade
Bill O’Reilly, 1Autolatry: Have a Nice Vacation, Mr. President
The Powers That Be: Dickweed Summit: Geraldo Runs Into Henry Gates On Martha’s Vineyard
Tarheeltalker: I Want to Have It Both Ways, Please
Hot Air: The Obamas will conspicuously consume on Martha’s Vineyard
Wallet Pop: Obamas score a house on the Vineyard: $35k per week?

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