The Bama’s on Broadway

If size doesn’t matter, a rumor perpetrated by the anatomically challenged, small things can have large implications.

The Obama’s stimulated the economy last night by attending a Broadway show after dining in the Village. It is in the nature of presidential perks and perhaps not worth mentioning.

I’m confident the commentating class would have been equally understanding if george and laura engaged in a comparable bit of subsidized self-indulgence under comparable circumstances (the collapse of the auto industry, unemployment, debt, massive entitlement spending, a burgeoning bureaucracy and probable if not pending stagflation …)

Not being a practiced bean counter I can only guess at the evening’s cost. I suspect transportation, parking for planes, helicopters and limos, security and all the concomitant niceties and (tax excluded benefits) that accrue to the leader of the free world would suffice to keep several or several dozen people in their soon to be foreclosed homes (an equally inappropriate expenditure of other people’s money).

President Obama being nothing if not politically astute surely realized there maybe something wrong with this picture but obviously thought himself and his bride deserving.

A curious calculation for a self portrayed common man. Perhaps the egalitarian is truly an elitist with an overactive sense of entitlement.