True, except it's part of a meme of the anti-Obama smearmongers to portray him as a high-living, big-spending flashy black man. The last one like this was a phony receipt from the Waldorf Astoria that supposedly revealed Michelle spending $400 on lunch, which was emailed around along with a quote about how we are going to have to make some sacrifices. Trouble is, she wasn't in NYC at the time.

It's just crap designed to paint Obama as a hypocrite in any way possible. So I clip them, and point out that they're absolutely phony, and maybe a few people in the middle slowly - ever so slowly - learn to exercise a bit of skepticism toward the right-wing smear machine.

I got clobbered by some ...

True, except it's part of a meme of the anti-Obama smearmongers to portray him as a high-living, big-spending flashy black man. The last one like this was a phony receipt from the Waldorf Astoria that supposedly revealed Michelle spending $400 on lunch, which was emailed around along with a quote about how we are going to have to make some sacrifices. Trouble is, she wasn't in NYC at the time.

It's just crap designed to paint Obama as a hypocrite in any way possible. So I clip them, and point out that they're absolutely phony, and maybe a few people in the middle slowly - ever so slowly - learn to exercise a bit of skepticism toward the right-wing smear machine.

I got clobbered by some fellow pastors who were simply and unalterably convinced that stuff like this was gospel truth. One colleague emailed "If you have any morals at all, you'll do everything you can to prevent the election of this man." And it was all based on BS that they swallowed like flies in an outhouse.