I was perusing the frequently maligned Huff Post and saw more BS in the comments section regarding the latest lies put fort as truth by the forces of ignorance. Some stupidity created by Dr. Paul Williams, Dr. of Hate, Prof. of Propaganda. This was posted by someone that could not spend 30 seconds seeing if this was even a little but true.
The claim is that:
Total Personal Staff members for other first ladies paid by taxpayers:
Mamie Eisenhower : 1 paid for personally out of President's salary
Jackie Kennedy: 1
Roseline Carter: 1
Barbara Bush: 1
Hilary Clinton: 3
Laura Bush: 1
Michele Obama: 22
(Here is where I leave out names and salaries of individual staffers in the interest of space.)
Michele Obama's personal staff:
(total = $1,591,200 in annual salaries)
I admit to being lazy enough that I did not confirm the veracity of these numbers. See below.
Here is a reference to Dr. Williams letter. http://boards.history.com/... Not worth my time and not to the point, Lies about M Obama
I responded as follows:
Lying and misleading are not nice. Laura Bush had at least 10 staffers. Refer to this article: http://sroblog.com/... , which lists 10 staffers of Laura Bush.
Laura Bush had 10 paid staff which cost the American taxpayers $764,900.
A difference of $491,800.
In My Turn (1989), former first lady Nancy Reagan described a brief glimpse of this service: "Every evening, while I took a bath, one of the maids would come by and remove my clothes for laundering or dry cleaning. The bed would always be turned down. Five minutes after Ronnie came home and hung up his suit, it would disappear from the closet to be pressed, cleaned or brushed. No wonder Ron used to call the White House an eight-star hotel." Refer to : http://www.answers.com/...
Don't fill the net with your ignorant BS about everything that Obama touches, thinks and does is socialist, bad, and corrupt. I'm tired of it and you are full of crap. Get your facts straight or shut your pie hole. Dr. Paul Williams made up the article you reffered to. It is a lie, and you swallowed it. Spit out your Kool-Aid and do some research before you hit post. I did all of this in less than 5 minutes. your could have too. Grow up and stop the haterade.
http://sroblog.com/...
To top that off was this question by numbnuts #2, refering to Our Dear Sarah from Alaska, all lipsticky and cute as a pin, youbetcha:
When are you liberal democrats going to stop hounding this woman? (Palin) Get a life.
Sometimes, the low fruit is so tasty:
We keep hounding her because she places herself in positions where she claims authority and competency to be a potential national leader. She has time after time shown that she is not prepared, educated, and intelligent enough to be qualified for such a position. She also refuses to present herself to legitimate analytical and investigative media for interviews or scrutiny regarding her agenda, policy, mistakes and missteps. She also wrote a book decrying her treatment in the public venue when she is not a legitimate player. She keeps standing up asking to be skewered, and I, for one am willing to oblige. She is simply not qualified to deal with international issue and relations. She is also a Dominionist Theocrat, a position which is inherently anti-democratic (little d democracy, not big D Democratic Party). Many of us are dedicated to keeping people like her away from the keys to national power, because she would present an inherent danger to the USA were she to gain office. That is why we hound her. Also, because she is a narcissistic a**hole.
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I did link to some stinky conservative sites, which I do not normally look at, but they popped up in my 5 minutes of research, and I include them here because they support my point.
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