Obama: Pay my wife, please

[Cloud Watcher]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...y-wife-please/

President Obama thinks his wife should be paid for the privilege of serving as first lady. Speaking at a campaign event in Denver on Wednesday, Mr. Obama invoked Mrs. Obama’s plight to make a point about equal pay for equal work. “I want to make sure that when she’s working, she is getting paid the same as men,” he said. “I’ve got to say, first ladies right now don’t, even though that’s a tough job.” Poor Michelle, we feel her pain.

Utterly outrageous! Michelle is living high on the hog on taxpayers' money, and they want to squeeze us for more?

[IMSAVED]

Please tell me that this is a joke.

[steinhatchee]

Lust of the flesh ... Lust of the eyes ... Pride of life

[Tall Timbers]

First Lady isn't a job and she's thus not required to do anything. She could have flown to Ethiopia if she wanted to and waited there while obams made a mess of this country over 4 years.

[ThePenguin]

Then they'd better pay all of the stay-at-home moms out there first who can't afford to jet-set around the world on the taxpayers' dime and who can't afford expensive clothes bought with public money.

[eyeonthesky]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...y-wife-please/










Utterly outrageous! Michelle is living high on the hog on taxpayers' money, and they want to squeeze us for more?

totally agree! and what about her kids who get to travel the world as what-did-they-call-them to justify their holiday?!

[Jesuschangesall]

O ban ma and Mitzchella ....OM my my ....

[Homesick777]

I don't have my calculator. How much is minimum wage in DC less $141,000,000 in expenses per year to haul her and the kids around the city and around the world? That includes 20+ Queen's attendants, six figure salaries for the on-site hairdresser and dog trainer/groomer (and probably 4 professional pooper scoopers for 24/7 coverage), who knows how much for extra-normal SS security protection, and estimated unknown expenses that will take 10 years to figure out. The $141,000,000 should about cover it give or take a mil.

[BigMoose]

Why oh why would I never conceive of Ron asking us to pay Nancy, or George to pay Barbara, or GWB to pay Laura.

I guess there is a philosophical difference between serving and giving, and ruling and taking. Nuff said.

[IMSAVED]

I am thinking that Michelle is pressuring her husband to make this statement.I am thinking that she wears the pants in the family.

[Mom2ten]

As if she doesn't get enough handouts

[OtherSideOfTheBoat]

First Lady isn't a job and she's thus not required to do anything. She could have flown to Ethiopia if she wanted to and waited there while obams made a mess of this country over 4 years.

Don't you have to be a lady first before you can be the First Lady?

She might be a female but a lady is different.
A lady is more of a well-mannered and considerate woman with high standards of proper behavior.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/lady
The Obamas do not have high standards but insist the world succomb to evil.

[Mom2ten]

Don't you have to be a lady first before you can be the First Lady?

She might be a female but a lady is different.
A lady is more of a well-mannered and considerate woman with high standards of proper behavior.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/lady
The Obamas do not have high standards but insist the world succomb to evil.

*like*

[IMSAVED]

Don't you have to be a lady first before you can be the First Lady?

She might be a female but a lady is different.
A lady is more of a well-mannered and considerate woman with high standards of proper behavior.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/lady
The Obamas do not have high standards but insist the world succomb to evil.

I am lovin that

[treasures]

I have a proposition that liberals should be down with. I say we offer to pay them both to do nothing. Seriously, not one more thing, and it would be worth every cent to us.

[sherrid]

When are we, the taxpayers going to get paid for putting up with obama's foolishness for 3.5 years while he goes on vacations and lives like a king (oh yeah, that's right. He thinks he is a king) I have $9.00 in my bank account til payday in part to obamas policies and inflation! What gall..until November, Obama

Sherri

[CakeDecorator]

Again, I am speechless....

[Musician in His house]

Yeah, I'm sure some of us hard-working ladies would like to have Michelle's "plight." Heck, I'd love it if the salary for being a wife and mother were real so I could stay home (y'all know that rundown on what a mom would actually make that they haul out every Mother's Day). Seriously, she doesn't get enough perks from being First Lady? I would see the job as a privilege, a way to give back to my country. Most First Ladies now have pet causes -- I guess mine would be education, or literacy (like Laura Bush), or the homeless. Michelle's pet cause, physical fitness and good nutrition, would be great if only she practiced what she preaches. She not only seems to like to dine on junk food when she can (as does her hubby, but then he seems to have the metabolism for it), but she also seems to like to eat high-falutin', pretentious food. She would do well to follow a Daniel diet -- simple food, simply prepared, lots of fruit and veggies. I don't think, if I were First Lady, that I'd have to have fancy food at every State Dinner, nor would I feel it necessary to have a new outfit and fancy jewelry for every appearance. Are there some places around the world that I'd like to visit? Yes, but there are only about 3. The rest of the time, I'm a homebody, so very few "vacations" for me. I'm a simple girl, with simple tastes. Guess that's one reason I wouldn't make a "good" First Lady.