Obama complains New York date night became political issue
President Barack Obama is letting it be known that he was not pleased with the way his trip to New York with wife Michelle last May became a political issue.
“Everything becomes political,” he told The New York Times Magazine in a story to be published this Sunday. “What I value most about my marriage is that it is separate and apart from a lot of the silliness of Washington, and Michelle is not part of that silliness.”
Republicans had criticized the trip as an expensive extravagance during hard economic times. Obama and Michelle flew Air Force One from Washington to New York for a night out on the town.
Obama told the magazine that the date-night flapdoodle was the one time that life in the White House annoyed him.
“If I weren’t president, I would be happy to catch the shuttle with my wife to take her to a Broadway show, as I had promised her during the campaign, and there would be no fuss and no muss and no photographers,” the president said.
“That would please me greatly.” He went on to say: “The notion that I just couldn’t take my wife out on a date without it being a political issue was not something I was happy with.”
getplaning,hearing high pitched squealing sounds again!how long has this been going on? Interesting you are quoting the gallup poll now!has the denudation of gallup ended when it reflects a statistic that might indicate that Obama is not in free fall like the dollar?or are still inevitably relying on your fortune cookie polls pulled out of vanity fair? The rapacious way that “Democratic Consumer Health Care Scam” is being forced on the American people will eventually turn the Obama photo ops sessions into a negative as his creditability free falls past the plunging dollar.