Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion on Obama family last year

A current right-wing meme is that Obama is wasting lots of money via this book, “Presidential Perks Gone Royal.” Though oddly no comparisons to Bush.

Still, the narrative is too sweet a dog-whistle not to use as an actual whistle:

rockinqsranch sees proof liberals aren't humble enough:

Leftist’s have a completely torqued view of what the job of “Representative of the people” means. They don’t recognize it for what it is. They see those votes that put them in the top position of leadership as the winning numbers of a lottery.

They see it as a ticket to ride.

Bill Clinton said he had more fun as President than any other President before him.

Obama is trying to outdo him.

dennisw recognizes the data is useless without a comparison, but then bets Obama's super extra negro-bad anyhow.

Really need a comparison here to George Bush and Bill Clinton’s White House expenses. George Bush used Air force One as he campaigned for re-election in 2004. But still.....I’ll bet crazy arse spendthrift Bammy Boy is squandering much more on his presidency than anyone before. It’s his style. He already has had many more White House parties, at least half of them slanted towards black entertainers to spread Bammy Boy’s fame in de hood

a real Sheila prefers to hate Michelle Obama:

that’s BILLION with a B.
In ONE year.
Just on goodies for this jerk and his wife, the international traveler.

Where is Michelle off to this week?
If she is even at the WH, you can bet she is planning her next jaunt across the globe.

And yet obama voters were pissed in 2008 that the republican party spent $150K on a wardrobe for Sarah Palin and family. A mere pittance in comparison.

EnquiringMind seems to think we're paying Obama's kid's tuition.

I’d love to know how much that private school is costing us for his 2 kids. Did anyone see Brian Williams’ snarky question to Mitt regarding the private school Mitt’s parents sent him to years and years ago? Brian reminded the viewers it would cost $38,000 in today’s $$ to send a kid to Mitt’s private school, and asked Mitt “doesn’t every child deserve such an education?”.

Eye of Unk

And protecting Obama from an enraged America for many years will cost us another couple billion.

exit82 brings out the "Obama's foot on the table" rage:

Can you imagine Ronald Reagan putting his foot up on the Oval Office desk?

I didn’t think so.

This is so indicative of Obama’s contempt of everything American, and of that we hold sacred.

And there’s that blowhard Joe Biden blabbering away as if Obama gives a crap, and doesn’t have enough sense to tell Zippy to get his damn foot off the desk.

I leave the ho-jillion pics of Presidents with feet on the desk, and Reagan with his ass on it to the reader.

publana follows up on desk-foot-gate:

He’s a muzzie showing the sole of his foot to the history of the desk and those that have sat behind it.

Texas resident tries to get a message across with some subtle dialect:

baraq is livin large and gettin paid.

MrB catches the drift, and then proceeds to go full racist:

Is this “livin large on the taxpayers’ dime” just a democrat thing, or is it a black democrat thing? (entitlement mentality)

Anyone have a comment?

It seems to me that the black democrats tend to be more inclined to take advantage of the perks of office than white or hispanic democrats.