Comments on: Let Them Buy $600 Earrings

By: A Pyrrhic victory for Democrats | Wizbang

A Pyrrhic victory for Democrats | Wizbang — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:38:01 +0000

[...] President Bush gave families a $600 tax rebate to help keep consumer spending going, Michelle Obama poo-pooed it as insignificant – “What can you do with that? Not to be ungrateful or anything. But [...]

By: Don

Don — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:49:02 +0000

My family makes a lot less money than the Obamas, but we made too much to get the rebate. How in the world did the Obamas get the rebate. If my family made too much, the Obamas certainly did as well. Where did her rebate check come from? Did she really get one? Or, like everything else the Obamas do, is it a complete smoke screen? I want to see a photocopy of their rebate check. No way did they get one.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:16:53 +0000

Nowhere in the quotations from Michelle Obama did she make reference to $600 earrings. She made reference to using a $600 check to pay down bills and then she added, “And it may even feel good that first month when you get that check. And then you go out and you buy a pair of earrings.” The clear implication is that you would buy a pair of earrings with some of the money leftover and not with the whole $600.
I do find it interesting though, that one of the candidate’s wife said on television that the only way to travel around arizona is in a private jet, but she is not the elitist. no, it’s the one that shops at target for clothes for her kids. that one is the elitist. jeez. it’s a good thing michelle obama didn’t inherit a king’s fortune and steal BO away from his first wife. you guys wouldn’t know what to say about her.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:30:32 +0000

Would you like to actually discuss the elitist comment by Mrs. Obama or throw race-bating bombs like a typical vacuous liberal coward?

By: American Nationalism, revisited…(French Lessons on Bastille Day!) about poverty in America… « Valentine Bonnaire

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:52:44 +0000

[...] over at Savage Politics already wrote about it! (So we saw!) Other friends of ours are seeing Marie Antoinette, redux, with her $600 earrings comment, at this time, when so many are being laid off from their jobs in America. And then, there is the [...]

By: Patti

Patti — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:51:51 +0000

I am really not good at blogging, shit. I am always posting on the wrong comments, wright, I know. But I am learning. I read fast; type slow…

This is for believe; not faux believe, okay?

I believe, I believe I believe (I am singing) hmmm mmmm, mmm (now, humming) hhhmmmmhhhmhmhmhmh~~ I believe, I belie–gotta joke: (now I am thinking)

Knock – Knock

Who’s there?

MeShelle.

Meshelle Who?

MeShelled out another hundred bucks to pay down
Hillary’s campaign debt. Though I could’ve used a new pair of cheap earrings.

I was thinking though, instead of $200, I’d send what I did (belly rings are going like $75. plus tax). I wonder who you are and why you troll and distract at every twist and turn, and you do it ever so delicately and carefully. Hmmmm-hmmmm,hmmm (I’m humming now).

NQPUMAs – who is believe? I love a good mystery.

believe is a different type of troll, I beleive, I believe, I belie (now I’m singing)

By: Psychodrew

Psychodrew — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:12:02 +0000

The spark that led to the french revolution was a huge spike in bread prices. When told that the poor people could no longer afford bread, the Queen said, “Let them eat cake (the crumbs left behind in the pan).” In other words, eat the leftovers. Sorry, but your analogy is incorrect.

The only Marie Antoinette-Michelle Obama analogy that (might) fit here is that both were falsely attacked for not caring for the poor. Historians believe that Marie Antoinette did a lot of work for the poor through private charities and that work never became public. That said, Marie Antoinette did live ridiculously extravagant lifestyle.

I really liked your cartoons earlier in the campaign before you began attacking Michelle Obama. The media are doing the same thing to her that they did to Hillary in the 1990s. Don’t you see that?

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Whiteytape's Weblog — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:31:06 +0000

Whitey tape – the truth is out there

THE WHITEY TAPE HAS LANDED!!!!!

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By: Don S

Don S — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:34:36 +0000

Pat, you really are sharp in your ability to depict the character of people with your cartoons. In this case, an angry, arrogant, hateful woman unable to empathize with plight of the poor whom she views as incapable of restraint and unable to use good judgment. Now, if she had received $600, I’m sure she would have rushed out to buy a new iPhone or a diamond necklace, so naturally, she projects her own proclivities to splurge onto struggling poor people. Why does she not imagine they might instead go out and buy a pair of shoes for one of their children who has no shoes? She really needs to take a look at herself, or maybe at one of your great cartoons to see her self as others see her. I love your cartoons and your always right-on observations. Keep them coming! It is unfortunate, however, that so often people leaving comments get off-topic and into petty bickering and name calling. Let’s keep the heat on the Obamas where it belongs.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:34:34 +0000

Try looking at this article by a British journalist on Michelle Obama’s own “wall-mart” (or similar) dealings.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-517824/Mrs-O-The-truth-Michelle-Obamas-working-class-credentials.html

By: Pat Racimora

Pat Racimora — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:36:42 +0000

I know the history–and there is another take on it, namely that bread and cake cost the same back then and cake had eggs in it which made it healthier than bread. However, what difference would that make if people could afford neither?

Also, note that I was careful to say “attributed to” also.

The main point is that the line was too good to not use for the purpose at hand.

By: Sam Copeland

Sam Copeland — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:25:24 +0000

Michelle Obama’s comments are clearly racist and imply that African Americans and poor people have no self-control and waste their money on trinkets.

Obama has no choice but to deny what she said, divorce her, and throw her under the bus.

But then again, he can no more renounce the woman of his children than the pastor he has known for 20 years, who brought him to Christ, and baptized his children, now can he?

By: Jaxxy

Jaxxy — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:33:55 +0000

I’ll attribute this addition to another blogger who said that some of these obamabots are what Lenin called “useful idiots.”

By: Tuppence 411

Tuppence 411 — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:14:54 +0000

Thank you for re-stating this. The fact is in Chicago BOTH Obamas were in a position to really HELP the African American Community with decent housing, affordable health care, etc…. Instead they used their positions for their own power and pocketbook; screwing over the people they supposedly serve. Belonging to a Church that fosters hatred and victimhood. USERS! And they had the GALL- the fu@king GALL- to call Bill and Hillary racists.

By: Christy

Christy — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:59:24 +0000

I don’t know who is more disgusting, BO or his wife. She really needs to learn how to keep her enormous rabid piranha mouth shut. But by all means, MO KEEP TALKING! LOL.