Dategate?

[ProSense]

RNC takes aim at Obamas for date night

I'll keep this short. For flying to New York and having some dinner and maybe a show, the RNC has decided to make it a political issue...

You couldn't make it up.

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Edit: More from Politico

The Republican National Committee slammed the outing in an "RNC Research Piece":

The RNC's Gail Gitcho added: "If President Obama wants to go to the theater, isn’t the Presidential box at the Kennedy Center good enough?”

:rofl:

[NightWatcher]

1. Fuck the Republicans

They are in the whiny, crybaby minority.

I'm so sick of weight being given to idiot bombthrowers on the right (Newt, Rush, Coulter, Hanity......)

Fuck em.

[havocmom]

2. They can't help it. They do not understand romance nor commitment

and they have to snivel about something today.

[Sanity Claws]

3. I thought the RNC was going to suggest Obama go to the Ford's Theatre.

[Caoimhe]

10. holy shit I responded below before reading your post ... jinx

[firedupdem]

4. I hate them..... n/t

[HopeOverFear]

5. Translation: Stop making us look bad by taking your wife on dates!

"Now WE'RE going to have to take our wives on dates, and we don't want to do that!"

[Ocracoker16]

7. We can't stand that they are one hot couple

Crowds gather to see them.

[underpants]

22. Yeah I was about to post "Geesh it must suck to be a GOP wife"

no nights out
no theater not even a movie
just sit in the house and watch TV

[jenmito]

6. On CNN, some reporter said, with a straight face, that this WILL come back to haunt him

(the Dems. in Congress) in '10). :eyes:

[sarah553807]

8. kinda sounds like a threat to me

[jenmito]

14. It was more like a promise. n/t

[HopeOverFear]

11. *smh*

[Jackeens]

13. Video link

Laugh or cry? Hmm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctKxWTsBMl4

[jenmito]

16. Thanks. Yup-that's what I saw. It's a VERY serious mistake...

and the media will keep this non-story alive for at LEAST a week. And then again in '10.

[SamCooke]

18. I hate to say it, but this video did make this seem to be just a lil too much

U forget how many people are required everytime the POTUS moves. That is an expensive Date Night. He's gonna get killed for this in the media. I wonder why they decided to do this.

[annabanana]

20. They should wonder why the idiot son went for cake when New Orleans

was drowning...

[Baltoman991]

21. Oh please!!

I wish I had a nickel for everytime I heard "he's gonna get killed for this in the media" whenever he does something.

The man is sitting at 65% approval rating. I guess you can always hold out hope that he'll eventually take the beating the media keeps predicting but I seriously doubt it's going to come from this.

[YvonneCa]

26. Maybe to show how useless the current...

...media can be.

[Cha]

15. Sounds like he's trying to project

his propaganda.

[jenmito]

17. Yup. Jeez-they were so serious...

like it's equal to Bush going to the fake ranch during Katrina.

[Cha]

19. Mediawhores..gutless wonders of

the Planet Earth.

[jenmito]

23. They never cease to amaze me.

And neither does Obama-by succeeding despite the media.

[Caoimhe]

9. How desperate have things gotten for these morans

I have to admit when I read the OP, that last quote.... somehow knowing it was a quote from someone in the RNC I mistakenly read it as: "If President Obama wants to go to the theater, isn't the Presidential Box at the Ford Theatre good enough?"



argh. wouldn't put it past them

[alsame]

12. This is going to be as damaging

as "Mustardgate."

[jenmito]

24. Obama's giving a speech in Egypt Thursday. That will put an end to this nonsense. n/t

[YvonneCa]

25. "Dategate"...that's PRICELESS!

:7

Prosense, they just have nothing better to do. Just when one thinks they can't act more selfish or childish...they come up with the idea to 'whine' about the Obamas going out for the evening. I mean REALLY... :7

[Pharlo]

27. Well, if you look at it from a Rethugs point of view, it makes sense

Family values is a soundbite, NOT a lifestyle.

A sound relationship requires work and effort. To your typical republican, this is completely incomprehensible. The ONLY relationship a republican is willing to work that hard on is with their money. To them, other humans are easily replaceable. One spouse doesn't work out, not an issue - with enough money, one spouse is easily replaced with the next younger, 'hotter' model.

Simple really. You just have to remember that to a typical Republican money matters more than people.

I suppose watching the President of the United States regularly schedule time to spend with his wife just blows their little lie to the other half that their own job is too important to take time away from to spend with their own wives/husbands.

All around, it's making them look like the inconsiderate money hungry assholes they really are. With that in mind, I can understand why they're objecting so strenuously.

[Liberal In Texas]

28. Of course they weren't outraged when * flew all over the country in AF1 (the 747 one)

doing repuke fund raising and campaigning on our dime.