Monday, May 4, 2009

How sweet. Now call the IRS.

The NYTimes reports that Barack Obama's mother-in-law is quite enjoying herself at the expense of American taxpayers.

The following, though, are absolute bullshit:
Mrs. Robinson still spends much of her time tending to the Obama girls, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7. She shuttles them to and from school most days and accompanies them to some play dates, the first lady said.
Where are the Secret Service? When I watched the movie First Kid, Sinbad took the president's kid to school. Mrs. Robinson may indeed ride in the government limousine while it takes the kids to school; but unless you're the one doing the driving, you can't rightly be said to be the one doing the shuttling.
For the first time in her adult life, she no longer has to cook or clean, unless she wants to.
Why is it exactly that she no longer has to cook or clean? Has she hired help? Or are American taxpayers paying for servants for her?
It seemed to me that she’s perfectly comfortable in her new life . . .
Of course she's comfortable. She's an old black woman from Chicago who has suddenly found herself in the enviable position of living in the most famous address in America being waited on by servants paid for by someone else.

Am I the only one that finds this a gross misappropriation of government funds? Didn't we once impale a general for letting his wife use his government cell phone?