Obama Criticized For Living In Lavish Mansion While Most Americans Struggle To Make Ends Meet
132-Room Estate Includes Personal Chef, 24-Hour Security Detail
WASHINGTON—Over the past three years, as the sluggish economy has forced many Americans to tighten their belts, President Obama has reportedly enjoyed a lavish personal lifestyle, residing with his family in a 132-room house staffed by a 24-hour security detail, five full-time chefs, and a live-in maid service.
In recent weeks, many of the president’s critics have seized upon the issue, arguing that anyone who sleeps in a sprawling six-level neoclassical mansion covering 18 acres of Washington, D.C.’s most valuable real estate is clearly out of touch with the lives of ordinary citizens.
“What message does it send to the American people when their president is living in a ritzy palatial estate at the same time they’re struggling to keep their heads above water?” political strategist Robert T. Carlson said Wednesday, noting that Obama’s gated home features a lush rose garden, a private balcony, an ostentatious room seemingly devoted to the color blue, a solarium, “fancy portraits” of John F. Kennedy and George Washington, and a movie theater. “So much for all that ‘shared sacrifice’ he keeps talking about.”
“And just look at those gaudy columned porticoes,” Carlson continued. “It must have cost a fortune to build that place.”
Other commentators have noted that while Americans lucky enough to have jobs often spend hours in traffic commuting to work each day, Obama simply “walks on over to another wing of his huge mansion,” where he keeps an opulently furnished home office replete with a large wooden desk, a fireplace, three giant windows, and a passage leading to his own private study and dining area.
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I FEEL ASHAMED THAT PEOPLE WOULD SPEAK OF THE PRESIDENT AND HIS WIFE IN THIS WAY. IT IS SUCH SAD COMMENTARY, CHOOSING TO BE OPENLY IGNORANT, RACIST, AND SO UNCONTROLLABLY ANGRY IS REALLY EXPOSING THE SICKNESS THAT IS RAMPANT IN THIS COUNTRY AND HAS BEEN SINCE SLAVERY. I GUESS YOU WOULD BE HAPPY IF PRESIDENT OBAMA AND HIS FAMILY WOULD BE THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO LIVE IN A SHANTY IN BACK OF THE WHITEHO– USE INSTEAD OF BEING IN IT…HOW DARE YOU PIGS WHO WISH YOU HAD THE INTELLIGENCE HE AND HIS WIFE BEHOLD…YOU SHOULD BE EMBARRASSED, AND YOU SHOULD ASK FORGIVENESS FOR WHAT YOU SAID.
HE’LL BE DIVORCED VERY SOON IF HE DOESN’T GET RE-ELECTED, SO MICHELLE OBAMA WANTS $ 100 MILLION SHE NEEDS TO \DO SOMETHING W/ THAT MONKEY FACE OF HERS…SHE’S JEALOUS OF OPRAY !!!! THAT’S PRETTY SAD, OPRAYS 380 LBS. & HER MAN IS GONE, HER FRIEND GAYLE IS GONE,BUT OBAMA HE’LL HAVE ENOUGH TO PAY THE MRS. OF W/ THE MONIES EVERYONE MADE OFF OUR HOMES TAAKEN & SOLD FOR “FAST-CAASH”. HE’LL BE LEAVING W/ BIG DEEP POCKETS MAYBE HE’LL BE BACK IN THE JUNGLES W/ HIS UNKNOW BROTHER…..
Is this a game?
Did they complain about Mitt, Gingrich and Busch? How many homes does Oprah and other celebs own at this time? Petty, Petty, Petty! Who put this statement out, person that wants him out of office. Well get in line!
Oh for crying out loud! Wasted space argument. You and I own the house Obama is temporarily leasing for four years! If we want him evicted we will do it but the most he gets is a renewal of his lease for 4 years!
This is such idiotic nonsense that I can’t imagine why I am taking the effort to reply to it except that I have nothing better to do and no money to go anywhere except to sit at this dumb computer and complain! 🙂
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ALL these poli-thugs MUST be arrested for Treason !!!
Struggling to keep thier heads above water?How about having to make daily choices about if you have heat or you feed your family?Not a pretty picture for alot of Americans.Not a good place to be as a parent!!Not a good place to be if you’ve never had to make these choices and are now faced with them.Terrible place when the President of your country doesn’t do anything but mouth deceptive platitudes.
All true..and even worse….that heat and electric we are all paying for are our own natural resources..!!!.The revenue stream from those natural resources could back our own currency to fund State banks.. and free up lending to small business..and create revenue to fund college and reinvestment..which could fund healthcare and America would prosper again…! We don’t have to look past our own borders for prosperity because we have all we need right here..All of that Globalist agenda crap…the ONE WORLD EPCOT CENTER, IS OK TO VISIT IN THE FANTASY WORLD OF DISNEY BUT, THE ENTIRE CONCEPT IS TOTALLY UNAMERICAN…The main objective of the founding fathers was ..to remove ourselves from Government tyranny…feudalism and oppression…that is the reason why we have a U.S. CONSTITUTION….and a right to bear arms as well as strict property laws that protect the people from the Government becoming a corrupt tyranny..a dictatorship that is oppressing the people…! National Sovereignty forever! America is not broke….this entire financial crisis is just another manufactured fraud being committed by the moneyed elite and their perps ! ABOLISH THE FED…THROW THE TRAITORS OUT!!
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I appreciated your comments when you seemed like a pretty sane person. I wonder about you now, to make such a comment, regarding Obama living in a mansion. Maybe I am not getting the joke if it is one. The White House does not belong to Obama. This is where every president lived regardless of good times or bad. You may not like him for what he is doing in the White House; eating and sucking on bar-b-que and chicken bones, spitting water melon seeds on the floor when he pleases, just to have the maids wipe it up on command, struts his long sexy legs in a ($$$$) suit across the white house lawn, jet off in this private jet you so resent him in, singing to millions of women on national TV, in yours and others faces who so resents him, spending billions of dollars at the drop of a hat. I can see how that would intimidate the Americans who don’t like the fact that it’s being done by a black man. I am going to go out on the limb this one time and say he is showing the other side of him. Welcome to America. It’s about (…. time). Now you know what the old and the new America look like. Because of the racist attitudes most white and some jealous blacks are portraying, I hope he wins this election, him and his so called “monkey face” wife. I’d like to see your face Margetta. Anybody that speaks so harsh about another cannot look any better. You are placing yourselves right in the same bunch of Romney, Gingrich, others and Congress. They all sound like spoiled rich kids that cannot have their way when they want something. Grow up and become better.
Chyne 1…LMAO…WE ALWAYS KNOW WE ARE RIGHT ON THE MARK WHEN THE TROLLS COME OUT TO TRY AND DEBUNK THE TRUTH…I DONT HAVE TIME TO WASTE ON YOUR EVIL ASS OR THE ASSES OF YOUR EVIL OWNERS…..BESIDES I ALREADY DID!!! THE TRUTH SHALL SET US FREE!!!!…LMAO!!! I HAVE NO TIME TO WASTE ON YOU…WE HAVE KNOW THE TRUTH HAVE OUR NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY TO SAVE!!!
You should be worried about God saving yours, not whoever else it is you think is going to. Good luck with that though.
God already did save me…revealing the truth to me about all of the lying traitor pricks in CONgress…Now…I am going to help God by spreading the TRUTH. TO EVERYONE I CAN!!! SO WHY DONY YOU STOP BEING A LYING TRAITOR AND A PATHETIC ASSHOLE…NO ONE HAS ANY SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL HERE..
THE TRUTH SHALL SET US FREE!!!!!
BEWARE THE DEBUNKERS OF THE TRUTH…ALL OF THE TRAITORS ARE BEING REVEALED BY GOD!! THE LIES ALWAYS CATCH UP WITH TRUE LIARS AND DECEIVERS….!!! WHO IS HIDING THE TRUTH FROM THE MASSES…? WHO IS INSRUCTING THE LEADERS TO iNSTILL FEAR AND LIES AND BLAME THE VICTIMS…? WHO IS INSRUCTING THE FED TO IMPOSE HARSH AUSTERITY MEASURES ON.THE PEOPLE UNDER THE GUISE OF BIG LIES…IN ORDER TO PROP UP THE VERY FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS THEY ARE INVESTED IN??? CONgress and all of their minions and cohorts like ROMNEY AND GINGRICH WHO — USED TO BE MEMBERS OF CONgress!!!!
Chyne 1, your racist scumbag..so called people like you are part of the problem..YOU ARE A HATER….calling the Presidents wife.. his so called monkey faced wife..!!!.Are you a member of the KKK..A NEO NAZI.? Trying to mask the real culprits, the old white greedy bastards who write the laws…the traitors in CONgress and their minions and cohorts in the Senate…as well as their criminals friends who were CONgress members in the past like GINGRICH AND ROMNEY…IF I HAD MY WAY…I WOULD WANT ELIOT SPITZER IN THE WHITE HO– USE FOR ONE REASON, HE KEPT HIS WORD AND WENT AFTER THE CRIMINALS…HE KNEW WHO THEY WERE AND WHAT THEY WERE UP TO..AND HE NEVER TRIED TO COVER UP HIS OWN PERSONAL INDISCRETIONS AND FACED THEM HEAD ON..HE DID NOT LIE LIKE BILL CLINTON DID AND SAY HE DID NOT HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH THAT WOMAN..WE NEED AN AMERICAN PATRIOT NOT A COWARD, WHO IS TOO AFRAID TO FACE DOWN THE DEMONS FROM WITHIN OUR OWN GOVERNMENT, , WE NEED A SHERIFF IN THE WHITE HO– USE…BUT, FIRST AND FOREMOST, WE NEED TO THROW THE TRAITORS OUT OF CONGRESS AND EXPOSE THEM..AND MAKE THEM RESIGN FROM CONGRESS AND THE SENATE IF THEY ARE TOO CORRUPT AND — USELESS AND ARE GETTING RICH FROM OUR DEMISE… TO DO THEIR JOBS…AND CORRECT THE MISTAKES THEY HAVE MADE THAT HAVE NEARLY DESTROYED AMERICA…!
I WOULD LIKE TO ADD CORRECT…NOT “FIX”… THE MANY MISTAKES THEY HAVE MADE BOTH PAST AND PRESENT…!
CHYNE 1…WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT ANYWAY…YOU LOUSY LIAR..!…I NEVER MADE A REMARK ABOUT OBAMA LIVING IN THE WHITE HO– USE.!…IF OBAMA GETS IN THE WHITE HO– USE AGAIN…WHO CARES….HE IS NOT THE PROBLEM…YOU DELUSIONAL PRICK…THE CONgress IS THE PROBLEM….THE OLD, RICH, WHITE BASTARDS..WE KNOW WHO THEY ALL ARE!!
Ofailure, Rancey – both dudes are part of the 1%. Isn’t it nice they give a choice to vote for one of the uber-wealthy?