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Jimi CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline Don't feed the moderators Posts: 4925 Madisonville, KY Gender:	Unbelievable Jan 23^rd, 2010 at 2:36pm Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to or
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Brew CH.com Sponsor CH.com Alumnus Offline Posts: 14163	Re: Unbelievable Reply #1 - Jan 23^rd, 2010 at 2:47pm What else did you expect? Let them eat cake.
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-johnny- CH.com Sponsor Offline theres no smoking on the dock Posts: 1642 fayette county ohio Gender:	Re: Unbelievable Reply #2 - Jan 23^rd, 2010 at 2:50pm those are some pretty good salaries. i wonder if she needs a truck driver
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Kevin_M CH.com Sponsor Offline withered branches grow green again. Posts: 8754 Michigan, USA Gender:	Re: Unbelievable Reply #3 - Jan 23^rd, 2010 at 3:03pm I didn't see the name listed for the attendant walking behind her carrying... I wonder if that's her purse in his other hand. Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to or
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Reply #4 - Jan 23^rd, 2010 at 4:22pm

Kevin_M wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2010 at 3:03pm:

I didn't see the name listed for the attendant walking behind her carrying... I wonder if that's her purse in his other hand.

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Kevin, I think that's one of their daughters.

As to the article, TAX AND SPEND baby!! Roll Eyes

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Kevin_M CH.com Sponsor Offline withered branches grow green again. Posts: 8754 Michigan, USA Gender:	Re: Unbelievable Reply #6 - Jan 23^rd, 2010 at 5:02pm Thanks, Mel. Should have suspected, the colors didn't match her dress well. I'd have fired the deputy associate director of purse coordinating.
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Reply #7 - Jan 24^th, 2010 at 1:10pm

Now I'm the last person to defend the Obama Whitehouse but...

How does her staff compare to that of Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton and Barbara Bush?

Just curious. Seems to me that organizing state events can't be simple.

Update: Never mind I did the google myself Smiley

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Reply #8 - Jan 24^th, 2010 at 1:14pm

DennisM1045 wrote on Jan 24^th, 2010 at 1:10pm:

Now I'm the last person to defend the Obama Whitehouse but...

How does her staff compare to that of Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton and Barbara Bush?

Just curious. Seems to me that organizing state events can't be simple.

-Dennis-

I'm not buying, Dennis. They all say "Let them eat cake."

The federal government has been out of control for far too long.

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Reply #10 - Jan 24^th, 2010 at 6:35pm

This is just one example.

Cursory audits of virtually every Municipal, State, and Federal government agency/operation consistently reveal the self-granted benefits of “Public Service”.

Politicians and the politically connected are riding the taxpayer gravy train, and laughing all the way to the bank.

How did it become so-easy to convince so-many taxpaying suckers that excessive “Self Service” is somehow the greatest form of “Public Service”?

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seasonalboomer CH.com Hall of Famer Offline CH messes with my isness Posts: 2517 Charlotte, NC Gender:	Re: Unbelievable Reply #11 - Jan 24^th, 2010 at 8:59pm yes, unbelievable. And I'm certain only the tip of the iceberg.
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Reply #12 - Jan 25^th, 2010 at 6:38am

Just a familiar tradition started by one wife in an apparently less formal and more open White House time. as written

"... to quell the rush to dinner from the reception area on her first evening as mistress of the house, Sarah Polk ordered the Marine Corps band to play "Hail to the Chief" and turn a would be stampede into a regal procession. By the end of her White House years, that old Scottish anthem would become the traditional announcement to clear the way for the president."

"Polk", the man who transformed the presidency and America

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Bob P CH.com Hall of Famer Offline Shut up Bob! Posts: 4573 Clio,California Gender:	Re: Unbelievable Reply #13 - Jan 25^th, 2010 at 7:33am Vote 'em all out and replace them with pickup truck driving regular people who will do the People's will!
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Brew CH.com Sponsor CH.com Alumnus Offline Posts: 14163	Re: Unbelievable Reply #14 - Jan 25^th, 2010 at 7:35am Bob P wrote on Jan 25^th, 2010 at 7:33am: Vote 'em all out and replace them with pickup truck driving regular people who will do the People's will! If only we could get enough of 'em to run!
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Reply #15 - Jan 25^th, 2010 at 8:21am

Michelle Obama currently has 24 paid staff members.

Laura Bush had 18 paid staff members.

White House telephone directory records indicate that Hillary Clinton had a staff of 19 as of March 2000.

The discrepancies come about when a position of "staff assistant" is assigned to the first lady rather than being a general assistant. Most dedicated staffers have "first lady" in their title, such as "nose wiper to the first lady."

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Reply #16 - Jan 25^th, 2010 at 9:14pm

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Vote 'em all out and replace them with pickup truck driving regular people who will do the People's will!

Fantasyland.....sadly.

Something happens to people when they cross that threshold.

I read something similar that Laura had nearly as many people picking up crumbs wherever she went too.

I also read that Jackie had as many as 40 but then she was Jackie. You had to be there kids. She may have paid for some anyway. Political types would never have brought such a thing up in the 60s. It just wasn't done.

The author of the piece is a little to the right of Louis XIV by the way.

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Reply #17 - Jan 25^th, 2010 at 9:30pm

Charlie wrote on Jan 25^th, 2010 at 9:14pm:

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Vote 'em all out and replace them with pickup truck driving regular people who will do the People's will!

Fantasyland.....sadly.

Something happens to people when they cross that threshold.

I read something similar that Laura had nearly as many people picking up crumbs wherever she went too.

I also read that Jackie had as many as 40 but then she was Jackie. You had to be there kids. She may have paid for some anyway. Political types would never have brought such a thing up in the 60s. It just wasn't done.

The author of the piece is a little to the right of Louis XIV by the way.

Charlie

Join me in eating cake, Charlie.

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Charlie CH.com Alumnus Offline Happy to be here Posts: 18971 Jamestown, NY Gender:	Re: Unbelievable Reply #18 - Jan 25^th, 2010 at 9:38pm Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to or Quote: Join me in eating cake, Charlie. Charlie
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Reply #19 - Jan 26^th, 2010 at 4:31am

Bob P wrote on Jan 25^th, 2010 at 7:33am:

Vote 'em all out and replace them with pickup truck driving regular people who will do the People's will!

A decade too late. The best "more perfect" union possibility was McCain in 2000. "We have to give the political system back to the people".

Charlie wrote on Jan 25^th, 2010 at 9:14pm:

Fantasyland.....sadly.

Madison's noble yet perhaps naive perception of making something of yourself in Federalist No. 10, where safeguarding individual ambition was "the first object of government", preventing overreaching "is the principle task of legislation."

Nobody could hear through the noise of a $100 million in campaign contributions for the divine right by the opposition's daddy conduit.

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