Tuesday, December 2, 2008

What? No diamond tiara?

Eradicating poverty in style, Obama is buying his wife a 30 thousand dollar rhodium bling.

Historically, when silver, gold and platinum simply didn't say "I love you", "Congratulations", or "I'm loaded" loud enough, rhodium has done the trick. Used in the world's most expensive pens and, indeed, to plate the Queen's crown jewels,

Of course, who are we to begrudge the woman of the bejeweling for suffering faithfully her husband's billion dollar campaign.

That will bring the grand total for his campaign to more than $750 million — more than the combined sum raised by President George W. Bush and his Democratic rival, John F. Kerry, in the record-setting 2004 campaign and nearly as much as the total raised by all the presidential contenders then.

The Obama team also helped raise more than $50 million for the Democratic convention’s host committee in Denver and more than $100 million for the Democratic National Committee. He’s still raising money for his transition and Inauguration. Four years ago, Bush raised $40 million for his Inauguration.

You know how much you can trust the mainstream press when they blackout the billion dollars being spent on the Obamas to ridicule 150 thousand of clothes for a woman who couldn't afford it on her own.

It's about the poor, dontcha know.

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