This Is Priceless
Yesterday, defending Robert Gibbs' decision to leave the White House, President Obama referred to Gibbs' "relatively modest pay" as Press Secretary. Last year, Gibbs made $172,200. For most of the past two years, Obama and the entire Democratic leadership have insisted that an income of $250,000 makes a family "rich" -- one of the "millionaires and billionaires." So that difference of less than $80,000 -- probably about $55,000 after-tax -- is what separates "modest" and "rich"? Really??? The utter hypocrisy of these people just appalls me. When it's "us" -- the noble elites acting for the public good -- any amount is "modest." When it's "those other people out there" -- entrepreneurs, middle managers, professionals -- people trying to do things for themselves, their families, their communities -- suddenly they become the evil "rich." Give me a break.
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May '10
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Great points. Obama & Co. seem astonishingly cynical about the ability of the American People to notice the internal contradictions that cascade as they lurch from one demagogic argument to another.
Dec '10
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Tally this on the "What if a Republican had said it" board.
The media'd be calling the president "out of touch in these tough times."
In the real world a person with Gibbs' skills would not be making 6 digits, unless he had political connections.
And let's face it, in the liberals' world, they think that political connections are and should be the primary determiner of salary.
Jun '10
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"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." Poor old Robert, deceiving the country for chump change.
Jul '10
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Gibbs is another example, like Barack and Michelle, of folks who could have risen to unimaginable heights in the private sector, but chose, instead, to do good works.
These folks were in such high demand from businesses eager to shower them with money that we should count ourselves fortunate they chose a more noble path.
Sep '10
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Steve,
You have a much more extensive consulting background than I do, but doesn't Obama strike you as the quintessential stuffed shirt Ivy League MBA who's never held a line job but pontificates as if staff jobs actually produce the goods and services of the business?
I realize that GWB had the MBA and Obama has a law degree, but the pontificating seems to be hardwired into Obama.
Aug '10
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The new elite ride around on the backs of the poor. Community organizer indeed .Understand that everyone in their DC nomenklatura milieu all make at least $250,000, so Gibbs was really pulling yeoman wages.
Dec '10
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Oh sure, $172,000 SOUNDS like a lot. But I'm sure that just like Obama-friendly companies did with ObamaCare, Gibbs got a waiver from the Administration to be exempted from class-warfare standards of wealth and income.
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Steve -- great catch.
Aug '10
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If $172,000 is "relatively modest pay" I must be at the poverty level according to these people.
Nov '10
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That is deliciously sarcastic. I love it.
Jul '10
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Kenneth: Gibbs is another example, like Barack and Michelle, of folks who could have risen to unimaginable heights in the private sector, but chose, instead, to do good works.
These folks were in such high demand from businesses eager to shower them with money that we should count ourselves fortunate they chose a more noble path. · Jan 6 at 11:04am
I'm having trouble with this because;
1) I know this is Sarcasm from you Keneth
2) I know that is what the subjects of your comments actually beleive.
I am genuinly torn between Laughing Out Loud and Sobbing!
Edited on Jan 6, 2011 at 11:44amMay '10
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You guys should come slumming in the Member's Feed some time: dxturner had this one yesterday... within minutes of the utterance.
Edited on Jan 6, 2011 at 11:46amNov '10
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Pseudodionysius: Steve,
You have a much more extensive consulting background than I do, but doesn't Obama strike you as the quintessential stuffed shirt Ivy League MBA who's never held a line job but pontificates as if staff jobs actually produce the goods and services of the business?
I realize that GWB had the MBA and Obama has a law degree, but the pontificating seems to be hardwired into Obama.
Imagine the tweedy head of a liberal college English department. Now imagine him in his office, sandals up on the desk, holding forth, passing judgement and making pronouncements about things he has no understanding of, while his tenured underlings fawn all over him.
That is Obama.
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Pseudo -- things may have changed since then, but in my day (and Obama's) the "pontificaters" (everyone knew who they were, and most would stifle a groan when one of their hands went up in class) broke at least 3-to-1 for law over business school. There were exceptions, of course, but the MBA types were generally guys (or women) who spent a healthy amount of time in fraternities and valued the practical over the theoretical. Quite a lot had majored in engineering or the hard sciences. The JD types, on the other hand, ran heavily to "social science" majors, and the "pontification quotient" was high. You've heard the story, perhaps, that circulated during the 2008 campaign, of the "Obamamometer," a scale devised by some of Obama's Harvard classmates to measure the utter pointlessness and obsequiousness of classroom comments. I can't vouch personally for its accuracy, but it certainly has the ring of truth.
Oct '10
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What's interesting is that when Obama was running for office his family was described as a typical middle-class family and it was often mentioned that the couple had only recently paid off their college debts, as if that was a sign that they're like all of us straining under financial burdens. They've been making 6-figure salaries for about 10 years now, and some of that time more than $250K. So what gives?
Nov '10
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Lies and hypocrisy, bereket! Dirty lies and stinking hypocrisy.
Dec '10
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One word explains it all. Disconnect.