HER EVERY REQUEST IN THE MIDST OF THE GREAT RECESSION
Mamie Eisenhower: 1 paid for personally out of Presidents salary.
Jackie Kennedy: 1
Roseline Carter: 1
Barbara Bush: 1
Hilary Clinton: 3
Laura Bush: 1
Michele Obama: 22
Michele Obamas personal staff:
1. $172,200 Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2. $140,000 Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
3. $113,000 Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary for Mrs. Obama)
4. $102,000 Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to The President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
5. $100,000 Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
6. $90,000 Medina, David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
7. $84,000 Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8. $75,000 Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9. $70,000 Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10. $65,000 Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
11. $64,000 Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12. $62,000 Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
13. $60,000 Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14. $57,500 Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15. $52,500 Mustaphi, Semonti M.. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
16. $50,000 Jarvis, Kristen E.. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
17. $45,000 Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
18. $43,000 Tubman, Samanth a (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19. $40,000 Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
20. $36,000 Armbruster, Sally M.. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
21. $35,000 Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22. $35,000 Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)
(total = $1,591,200 in annual salaries)
There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Ladys social life.
One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense.
Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid
Grimes-Miles, 49, and First Hairstylist Johnny
Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe .
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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/10/evita_obama.html
Correction looks like 26 and Laura Bush had 16.
$1,750,000 for Michelle .
''Without taking into account the expense of the lavish benefit packages afforded to every attendant.'
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13827
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Right wing talking-point whisper campaign. This email smear has been going around for a while, and it is nothing but lies and half-truths.
Laura Bush had 24-26, not 1.
Lady Bird Johnson had 30, as did Betty Ford.
Jackie Kennedy had 40, not 1.
Where do you guys get this stuff? Oh, yah, you make it up and then email it to every Wal-Mart greeter and TSA drone in the country so it can go viral.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes
--Mark Twain
You failed to see my correction and Michelle is getting that lavish treatment now when we are in the middle of a huge recession.
about all the other first ladies.
It's horseshit.
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Wow, you still don't get it 
if it were the McCain's in the White House you wouldn't have a problem. But the Obamas; every little thing can be something to bitch about.
I can tell you get your talking points from Arinana Huffington
All I need to know about you, is that you, among others, can't even to be bothered to research the truth about the bullshit you regurgitate from various unseemly places without any shame about it whatsoever.
You are clueless Why do you think I put a correction.
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Ya shoulda looked before you leaped.
This is mostly an internet myth. Jackie Kennedy began the trend of First Ladies with their own staff, and every First Lady since then, including Nancy Reagan and Laura Bush had their own miniature army of staffers.
The message here is that we've allowed gov't in general to become massively bloated. This is not unique to any one political party, nor any one First Lady.
Thank you SOTF!!!!!
you know Tim...if your side has to make up a bunch of lies to try to make a point...then maybe, just maybe.....you have NO POINT.
Instead of simply admitting the fault of your side, you justify it by making an unfounded claim that the other side does the same thing.
Didn't your momma ever tell you two wrongs don't make a right, TX?
I am not a Republican!!!! And I am not a Democrat!!! I am aregistered INDEPENDENT voter!!!!! I have always been registered as an INDEPENDENT voter!!! Get that through your extremely thick skull Willy!!!!! And I've actually voted for more Democrats than Republicans over the course of the past 32 years!!! I have even omitted on this board that I voted for "Mr. O". So stick that up where your head is most of the time!!!
I happen to agree with Washington's opinion that: "The two party system will never function properly in this Nation. It will become what is best for the party over what is best for the Nation"!!!
You didn't address my point. I don't care who you've voted for. I didn't even bring that up. I'm wondering why you're justifying a wrong by claiming the other side does it.
1) Your comment: "more typical B.S. from the reich wing..."
2) You are so wrong to call me a reich wing, insinuating I am a NASI!!! And then to associate me with the Right.
3) You are always claiming that the BS only comes from the Right.
Two wrongs never make a right Willy... The problem is that you only see wrong from one side of the isle when BOTH parties are wrong. You post that "Mr. O" and the Left keeps reaching out to the Right when they never ever do. When the Right makes suggestions or amendments they never even get out of committee. Neither side wants bipartisanship. Both parties only want what their party wants. But you never see anything but that the Right is always wrong and the Left is always right. Get real...neither party deserves to be in control as neither body governs "For the People".
Tx, if you don't want me to call you names like a "reich winger" then you should either demonstrate that you aren't one, or cease to engage in name calling.
I've never said that BS only comes from the Right. You know just as well as anyone that I've been very critical of the left, particularly the blue dogs, the Clintons, and Obama.
Beyond that, your argument is basically nothing more than "I know you are, but what am I", which is so ridiculous that it doesn't merit a comment.
So since you didn't answer my question, I'll ask it again. Why do you defend a wrong by saying "the left does it too" instead of being man enough to admit that your side on this point was wrong?
Huh.....Willey... When I first started posting RWU chastised me for falling into the trap calling someone an idiot. That was back in June of last year. From that point forward, I have refrained from name calling. How long has it been for you? Minutes? Maybe an hour or two? Give me a break Willy. I believe you call people slanderous names in at least 1 post out of 10, and that is giving you the benefit of the doubt solely based on the fact that you out post most by 4 to 1 margin. I'm not the name caller Willy. Do you have a mirrow handy? I only have to go through what youve written in the past two days to find examples of your poisoned pen.
...but you were insulting me before GaG ever got started.
so, prove your claim. You can search my posts just as well as anyone.
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Referring to anyone as "reigh wing"... Give me a break!!! I do not perceive anyone who post here as a NASI.
Besides...to go through 500+/month of your post is not worth my effort. It was bad enough to read most of them the first time. But lets just start with you calling people "retarded"...
and I also think Michelle Obama is a Great first Lady and good for the country..
I don't see the problem ..
...but Laura Bush was quite possibly one of the worse.
Now before you go on and say this is just Bush bashing, consider the evidence.
We went to war in the Middle East in part to liberate the people in Iraq and Afghanistan. I'm going to take that as a given here, despite that it's bullshit.
Laura Bush who talked a good game about women being liberated there, went over there with a veil on her stupid head. What the hell message did that send?
Then her other mission was to address gang violence. She then proceded to do nothing about it.
To boot, she's the only First Lady that I can think of who ever murdered somebody because of her carelessness, running her best friend over in her car.
Then she spent most of her time in the White House popping pills and being higher than Rush Limbaugh at a heroin party. Don't believe me? Look at that woman's eyes.
Geez, you've ben up close and personal with Laura Bush so you could actually look into her eyes? Were her pupils dilated, were they red? Did you get her autograph? Oh yeah, was she convicted of murdering her best friend with her automobile? Or was it considered to be an accident?
Your hatred for all things continues to spewith forth. Ever consider therapy?
when compared to other mind-boggling wastes of money.
The Speaker of the House (and I mean all, not just the current occupant from San Francisco) spend more than all those First Lady staffers' salaries in just one month of traveling.
There are much bigger problems in this country to focus on than how much is spent keeping the First Lady's office in order.