Anybody seen these two RW emails?

[Bigmack]

They were sent to a buddy, and he sent them to me because my responses are always meaner than he could do.

I'm gonna answer in two parts... First part "Hey... we won... you lost... get over it!" The second part will be more thoughtful and point out the high cost of moving a POTUS... or any other public figure.... and his family around and staffing them.

Some examples...

Did you know it costs the state of Florida over $300K to protect Columba Bush (Jeb's wife) over a period of two years? http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/gubernatorial/article1003250.ece

Did you know that Laura Bush ordered a set of china that cost half a million bucks?
http://www.businessinsider.com/2009/1/new-bush-china-comes-with-550000-price-tag

These guys are sweating a few bucks.... remember that Bush lost $12Billion in Iraq... LOST IT! As in a pallet-load of bills. Not counting, of course, the two Trillion that clusterfuck cost us... and the 4,641 US dead. Oh... and the trillions lost in the real estate market and Wall street.

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First Bullshit email....
Michelle Obama Takes Girls to London for Fish and Chips
(She must be taking lessons from Pelosi)

Those Arrogant Americans, maybe BHO is talking about himself … He may be the biggest hypocrite of all time. Of course our liberal media didn’t even mention this.
A Boeing 757 and a fleet of armored cars for Michelle’s sight seeing tour!

On Sunday, President Obama flew back to the United States on Air Force One. His wife, two daughters and her mother did a bit of shopping in Paris before taking their own Boeing 757 (C-32) over to London to do some sight seeing.
We all remember Obama’s admonishment to corporate CEO’s in February:
“You can’t get corporate jets, you can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers dime.”
Apparently that doesn’t apply to his wife.
The London Times opened it’s description of Michelle’s visit this way:
Motorcycle outriders, armoured Chevrolets and bullet-headed men in raincoats criss-crossed London yesterday as Michelle Obama and her daughters spent a second day on an unofficial visit to the capital.
The Times went on to describe that when Michelle and the girls arrived at Westminster Abbey, the building was closed to tourists with people already in told to “wait against the wall.” An American visiting the Abbey said “Right then I knew it was probably someone from our ‘royal family’.”

Michelle’s motorcade shut down the London street above as the First Lady of the World and her children go for Fish and Chips at a pub in Mayfair. The entourage inside the restaurant was 15 people while dozens more wait outside. Include the dozens of Air Force personnel to fly and service the plane, embassy personnel and other staff and we are talking about a serious expenditure of tax payer dollars.
Meanwhile, millions of Americans have lost their jobs and won’t be able to take their family on a summer holiday. Despite their circumstances they’ll still be expected to fork over the tax dollars to pay for Michelle’s trip!
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Second Bullshit email
SEEMS TO ME THAT THE FIRST LADY HAS BARELY ENOUGH HELP TO MEET ALLOF HER OBLIGATIONS AS FIRST LADY. I AM SURE YOU WILL AGREE THAT SHE SURELY DESERVES AT LEAST 10 MORE. KEN

The salaries for staffers in the Office of First Lady are also on the newest list. The highest paid is Chief of Staff Susan Sher, who gets the top $172,200. Here are the rest:

$140,000
Frye, Jocelyn C. (DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND PROJECTS FOR THE FIRST LADY)

$113,000
Rogers, Desiree G. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND WHITE HOUSE SOCIAL SECRETARY)

$102,000
Johnston, Camille Y. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
Winter, Melissa E. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)

$90,000
Medina, David S. (DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)

$84,000
Lelyveld, Catherine M. (DIRECTOR AND PRESS SECRETARY TO THE FIRST LADY)

$75,000
Starkey, Frances M. (DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING AND ADVANCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)

$70,000
Sanders, Trooper (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND PROJECTS FOR THE FIRST LADY)

$65,000
Burnough, Erinn J. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY SOCIAL SECRETARY)
Reinstein, Joseph B. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY SOCIAL SECRETARY)

$62,000
Goodman, Jennifer R. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING AND EVENTS COORDINATOR FOR THE FIRST LADY)

$60,000
Fitts, Alan O. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ADVANCE AND TRIP DIRECTOR FOR THE FIRST LADY)
Lewis, Dana M. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT AND PERSONAL AIDE TO THE FIRST LADY)

$52,500
Mustaphi, Semonti M. (ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY TO THE FIRST LADY)

$50,000
Jarvis, Kristen E. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR SCHEDULING AND TRAVELING AIDE TO THE FIRST LADY)

$45,000
Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)
Tubman, Samantha (DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR,SOCIAL OFFICE)

$40,000
Boswell, Joseph J. (EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)

$36,000
Armbruster, Sally M. (STAFF ASSISTANT TO THE SOCIAL SECRETARY)
Bookey, Natalie (STAFF ASSISTANT)
Jackson, Deilia A. (DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. Delete them -

life goes on...............

[johnaries]

2. Hmmm, I wonder how much GW spent flying back and forth

to clear brush? At least Obama was on a Diplomatic mission.

[guruoo]

3. This should shut them up, but good...

"Who in their right mind would send 363 tonnes of cash into a war zone?"


How the US sent $12bn in cash to Iraq. And watched it vanish

Special flights brought in tonnes of banknotes which disappeared into the war zone

* David Pallister
* The Guardian, Thursday 8 February 2007


An armed guard poses beside pallets of $100 bills in Baghdad.
Almost $12bn in cash was spent by the US-led authority

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1


Contractors and Cash Under Congressional Investigation
February 06, 2007 1:03 PM

Stacks of cash, some filling entire transport crates, are pictured alongside grinning contractors in Iraq.

The images have been made public today in a report for a congressional oversight committee, chaired by
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., which is investigating financial improprieties in the Iraq war.

But military contractors sitting alongside millions of dollars in the war-torn Middle Eastern country are
nothing new. In fact, they may as well be postcards they were so often sent home in e-mails by Iraq-based contractors.

I should know, as the accompanying photo shows me with $3 million and a submachine gun, crouching inside my
bedroom inside Baghdad's Green Zone in the summer of 2005. I hoped it would amuse my friends back home in
the U.K., but many of my American colleagues posed alongside the money too.


http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/02/contractors_and.html



Dale C. Stoffel, an American contractor in Iraq, described cash delivered in
pizza boxes and payoffs dropped in paper sacks. Photo: courtesy David Stoffel.

Inquiry on Graft in Iraq Focuses on U.S. Officers
By James Glanz, C.J. Chivers and William K. Rashbaum / February 14, 2009

Federal authorities examining the early, chaotic days of the $125 billion American-led effort to rebuild Iraq
have significantly broadened their inquiry to include senior American military officers who oversaw the program,
according to interviews with senior government officials and court documents. Court records show that last month
investigators subpoenaed the personal bank records of Col. Anthony B. Bell, who is now retired from the Army but
who was in charge of reconstruction contracting in Iraq in 2003 and 2004 when the small operation grew into a
frenzied attempt to remake the country’s broken infrastructure. In addition, investigators are examining the
activities of Lt. Col. Ronald W. Hirtle of the Air Force, who was a senior contracting officer in Baghdad in 2004,
according to two federal officials involved in the inquiry.

It is not clear what specific evidence exists against the two men, and both said they had nothing to hide from
investigators. Yet officials say that several criminal cases over the past few years point to widespread corruption
in the operation the men helped to run. As part of the inquiry, the authorities are taking a fresh look at
information given to them by Dale C. Stoffel, an American arms dealer and contractor who was killed in Iraq in late 2004.

Before he was shot on a road north of Baghdad, Mr. Stoffel drew a portrait worthy of a pulp crime novel: tens of
thousands of dollars stuffed into pizza boxes and delivered surreptitiously to the American contracting offices
in Baghdad, and payoffs made in paper sacks that were scattered in “dead drops” around the Green Zone, the nerve
center of the United States government’s presence in Iraq, two senior federal officials said.

Mr. Stoffel, who gave investigators information about the office where Colonel Bell and Colonel Hirtle worked, was
deemed credible enough that he was granted limited immunity from prosecution in exchange for his information, according
to government documents obtained by The New York Times and interviews with officials and Mr. Stoffel’s lawyer,
John H. Quinn Jr. There is no evidence that his death was related to his allegations of corruption.

http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/missing-billions-from-iraq.html

[Motown_Johnny]

4. List all the stuff they have price tags on, Then....... Competent Leadership: PRICELESS !!!!!

[Berry Cool]

5. The thing that kills me is,

do they really think Laura Bush didn't have people in all those positions on that lengthy salary list working for her, too? Or do they think everyone on Laura's staff worked for free?

Or was it OK for Laura to have all those people working for her because she was...a genteel WHITE lady??

To me, the message is loud and clear--and racist, too. "White women in high positions NEED other people to 'do for' them; a black woman, on the other hand, no matter how high her position, should not have a staff full of other people at her beck and call, but rather should be capable of doing, and have to do, everything herself. And if she doesn't, it's a waste of money."

Really. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if they expected Michelle to tie a kerchief around her head and an apron around her waist and cook pancakes for breakfast every morning, to be followed by daily scrubbing of the White House floor on her hands and knees. A cleaning staff? Surely you jest!

[Bigmack]

6. Replying to my own post...information

I was able to quickly find a response to the email about the Michelle Obama staff.

Check it out if you're interested in the size of Laura Bush's staff.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/administration/whbriefing/2004stafflistb.html