Michelle, On The Move

vanessa...i hear you! You are the smartest one here!

Sorry to disapoit you dear , I do love Brazil too , but I have a Mission and a beautiful Family HERE and this is my country now ! If you like it or not ! Plus I do need to be bron in another country to have many American borns that totally are in agreement with me!!! Sorrry !!!! ( Laughs)

I???m good leader for the ONES who see my point !!! If you think you and all your crew are so right, WHY YOU GUYS DEPEND SO MUCH IN THE NEW PRESIDENT TO MAKE BETTER THINGS HAPPEN TO YOU AND IN YOUR LIFE ???? Why don't you GO AND FIGHT for a better position in Society, HONEY ???? I DO !!!!Who depends in any President as a solution for their ??? non working issues??? are lazy people to me. If every person in this country work hard and do the extra mile, I believe most of our Welfare funds could be use for something else or for the ones who really are in need and went to fight for us in wars! Instead, there is a bunch of YOUNG people who never fought for us in a war WHO has intact two legs and two arms, a sane mind and with "some" back problems as they claim, that could GET a light working job and They don't do it !!!! Most of the people in disability prefer, stay in home and are getting their disability check in the mail every month and getting ??? RIDICULOUS FAT??? at their couch!!!! IT???IS SHAME !!!!! GOSH...... and they still depending on the new president for a better life ????? WE all Americans need to get up from our couches and go to work to get thins country back on track !!!! NOT depend on OBAMA to do it for us because he will not be able to do much about that Country???s mess!!!! I'll guarantee you, he will ask for another term to do WHATEVER HIS PROMISSES WERE TO INCREASE HIS SAVINGS ACCOUNTS Like many other Presidents did too. I said , ACCOUNTSSSSSSS?????????

" Posted By: MCortinas @ 11/07/2008 10:19:03 PM
Comment: Glam- you are ridiculous. why are you so concerned about how First Lady Michelle pay for her clothing, etc? Were you so concern with President Bush and previous presidents wives clothing and expenses? I mean are you serious? You all have to find smething negative to say! What are you doing for yourself? Does anyone keep track of how much you're spending? Do we know what's in your closet or wallet? Simple-minded people"

Good morning, MCortinas -

That is the very question I was pondering when I saw your post. I'm pretty new to this, but does anyone else remember these types of ruminations going on during any past elections? I would be fascinated to know the answer. Maybe this is what always happens. It doesn't make it any more appropriate, but maybe it does happen in other elections. If the cost of Mrs. Obama's dress and the source of the funds used to pay for the dress are not something that has been discussed in past elections, why now? Because she's black? I don't know. Frankly, it's just not something I've ever been concerned about. I know that there are protocol's in place to deal with many issues, and I'm sure this is one of them.

As a Republican, I will admit that I was shocked over the amount spent on Gov. Palin's wardrobe. However, I wasn't particularly angry as I never saw any information provided regarding past candidates. I've now read that Mrs. Obama's election night outfit was $3500 and I've read that it was $9000. Comparatively, that seems like a drop in the bucket to me, irregardless of who paid for it.

Anyone have any further info.?

As for those saying that Obama's $400k salary will suffice to pay for "private" expenses, as Vanessa200 said below, that's hogwash. $400k is what an average doctor makes, or a medical-field couple, or a good lawyer, or a good builder, etc.. It's still not enough really even for those well-paid jobs - esp. in this economy - to fill all the gas in those two or three family cars, send the kids to private school, pay off a mortgage, pay for groecries and eating out, entertainment, school uniforms, sports equipment, ballet and piano classes...AND those designer dresses. really, when highly-paid professionals can't afford that lifestyle, what makes anyone think a president will be relying on his salary to clothe, school and feed his family? No, that's what we the brainless taxpayers are for. Everyone knows that all the presidential income goes straight into their savings accounts, and even the first family's undies come from the taxpayer's pockets. I voted for change. Now I want real change - not just talk and hot air. It has to start from the top, and it has to start from that personal side of his that he has harped so much on the campaign trail about. I want him to be ACCOUNTABLE to the America people - and that means real transparency in everything. We're paying to put food on his table. Don't we deserve his consideration, moderation, and economizing? It should be that way for ALL presidents. But this is the first one who's promised to DELIVER on CHANGE. So is he really going to - or is just "election promises"? That was one expensive election promise if that's all there way to it - coz plunking down $50 donations for his empty promises instead of paying for your gas and walking all the way to work is not going to have been worth it - all the millions he made off donations... is that right? Is that ethical? Is that fair? And real change is when you go to ay your income taxes and there's a box on there that says where do you want your tax money to go - schools roads, housing, lobyying congress to lower the smoking age to five and a half, or do we want to fund the first family's kid's summer camp? That's what real change will be.

As for those saying that Obama's $400k salary will suffice to pay for "private" expenses, as Vanessa200 said below, that's hogwash. $400k is what an average doctor makes, or a medical-field couple, or a good lawyer, or a good builder, etc.. It's still not enough really even for those well-paid jobs - esp. in this economy - to fill all the gas in those two or three family cars, send the kids to private school, pay off a mortgage, pay for groecries and eating out, entertainment, school uniforms, sports equipment, ballet and piano classes...AND those designer dresses. really, when highly-paid professionals can't afford that lifestyle, what makes anyone think a president will be relying on his salary to clothe, school and feed his family? No, that's what we the brainless taxpayers are for. Everyone knows that all the presidential income goes straight into their savings accounts, and even the first family's undies come from the taxpayer's pockets. I voted for change. Now I want real change - not just talk and hot air. It has to start from the top, and it has to start from that personal side of his that he has harped so much on the campaign trail about. I want him to be ACCOUNTABLE to the America people - and that means real transparency in everything. We're paying to put food on his table. Don't we deserve his consideration, moderation, and economizing? It should be that way for ALL presidents. But this is the first one who's promised to DELIVER on CHANGE. So is he really going to - or is just "election promises"? That was one expensive election promise if that's all there way to it - coz plunking down $50 donations for his empty promises instead of paying for your gas and walking all the way to work is not going to have been worth it - all the millions he made off donations... is that right? Is that ethical? Is that fair? And real change is when you go to ay your income taxes and there's a box on there that says where do you want your tax money to go - schools roads, housing, lobyying congress to lower the smoking age to five and a half, or do we want to fund the first family's kid's summer camp? That's what real change will be.

It is not petty to question a President on his spending habits, starting first and foremost with his family. After all, the hue and cry about Sarah Palin was her governership using state funds for her kids benefit... what do you think will stop the Obama family from abusing the PRESIDENTIAL office? It is a platform of CHANGE that he was elected on, so he should be sincere and stick to it.. or be like any other two-faced opportunistic politician, in which case he did not deserve that landslide in electoral votes. I am concerned as every citizen should be, because the money for these politician's salaries and hoopla comes from MY paycheck - and yours. We taxpayers are fuding their (extravagant) lifestyles. Michelle Obama has clearly stated that her mother will be able to live "anywhere in DC". That concerns me... why should that incremental cost - however large or small it may be - come out of good honest harworking taxpayer money that should go to roads, schools, buildings and defense? Which is why we taxayers pay our taxes in the first place. As for wearing designer wear, these politicians claim to represent WE, THE PEOPLE. Do "we the people" live off other people's taxes? Do we the people buy designer wear off other people's income/taxes? If you are a thief, you do. Not if you're anywhere near honest. You want to change politics in DC? Change the way preseidential "expense accounts" work. Eliminate them. Pay th eman a salary and have him take his wallet out to pay for the goods and services he and his family consume - like the rest of the United States. Obama is not a businessman, he is not employing 20 or 200 workers, he is not out to make a profit - why does he need designer wear? Why does his wife or kids? He is the President(-elect). The taxpayer is employing HIM. Its the other way around. The shoe should be on the other foot. That's what Bush forgot, do we want to make the same mistake again? Giving too much power over us to one human being, or his cadre of loved and hugged ones?

It is not petty to question a President on his spending habits, starting first and foremost with his family. After all, the hue and cry about Sarah Palin was her governership using state funds for her kids benefit... what do you think will stop the Obama family from abusing the PRESIDENTIAL office? It is a platform of CHANGE that he was elected on, so he should be sincere and stick to it.. or be like any other two-faced opportunistic politician, in which case he did not deserve that landslide in electoral votes. I am concerned as every citizen should be, because the money for these politician's salaries and hoopla comes from MY paycheck - and yours. We taxpayers are fuding their (extravagant) lifestyles. Michelle Obama has clearly stated that her mother will be able to live "anywhere in DC". That concerns me... why should that incremental cost - however large or small it may be - come out of good honest harworking taxpayer money that should go to roads, schools, buildings and defense? Which is why we taxayers pay our taxes in the first place. As for wearing designer wear, these politicians claim to represent WE, THE PEOPLE. Do "we the people" live off other people's taxes? Do we the people buy designer wear off other people's income/taxes? If you are a thief, you do. Not if you're anywhere near honest. You want to change politics in DC? Change the way preseidential "expense accounts" work. Eliminate them. Pay th eman a salary and have him take his wallet out to pay for the goods and services he and his family consume - like the rest of the United States. Obama is not a businessman, he is not employing 20 or 200 workers, he is not out to make a profit - why does he need designer wear? Why does his wife or kids? He is the President(-elect). The taxpayer is employing HIM. Its the other way around. The shoe should be on the other foot. That's what Bush forgot, do we want to make the same mistake again? Giving too much power over us to one human being, or his cadre of loved and hugged ones?

For this people that keeping saying that Obama will be paying for this and that out of his own pocket are lieing !!!! He will be making $400,000 dollares as his salary and I guess he cannot pay for the clothes his family will wear in the entire years so all those expensives will be coming from the U.S Treasury from tax payers and other government's income from investments.Maybe if our fisrt lady goes Shopping at Marshalls or TJ Max MAYBE her husband's salary will be able to pay for her dresses and for the two daughters dresses and schools.Please stop deceiving many iliriate Americans that the President will be paying for this and that...blah,blah,blah out of his pocket because IS NOT TRUE.He and his family will be having all for free and his salary will go to an savings account !!!! To me, Obama will be no diffrent than all the other Presidents, when it comes to his Money.....Why do you all think he wants to be the president so much??? Just for a freakin'change in a President's skin complexion ???? Of course not !!! He will be having all the same privileges any other president had and will fill his pocket as much as he can ,while living at the White House and making part of the American History !!!!! When it comes to money, most people DO change ....specially if they don't hold true values so let wait and see what will change for us and to President Obama. Only TIME will prove to us WHAT changes he can make being our President. WILL BE A CHANGE FOR AMERICANS OR A CHANGE FOR HIM SELF ???? OR BOTH ????? Let see...folks If REALLY all those Votes that "Americans" gave to him were worth it for our pockets or for his......??????????? Like that song from the band ASIA , "Only Time Will Tell " !!!!!!

Glam- you are ridiculous. why are you so concerned about how First Lady Michelle pay for her clothing, etc? Were you so concern with President Bush and previous presidents wives clothing and expenses? I mean are you serious? You all have to find smething negative to say! What are you doing for yourself? Does anyone keep track of how much you're spending? Do we know what's in your closet or wallet? Simple-minded people

this is truly disgusting....and blacks aren't racist and liberals aren't loons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDEAYgm0Dv8

Bear in mind that Michelle???s campaign win dress cost about $3,500, and her daughters averaged $200 each???.. tally that to about 200 days a year, and what do you get? close to $800,000. Not including stockings, sweaters, undergarments, swim clothes, gym clothes, uniforms, etc. You get my drift. And the skin color will become noticeably lighter over the next four years, mark my words. Shiseido Botox anyone?