[symple_heading style=”” title=”By Kevin Pierce-Jones, Opinion Contributor ” type=”h3″ font_size=”” text_align=”left” margin_top=”30″ margin_bottom=”30″ color=”undefined” icon_left=”” icon_right=””]
(Not necessarily representing MyNewsLA.com)
The Republicans are right: We’re sick and tired of President Obama inflicting massive traffic jams on Southland drivers during rush hour so he can raise big bucks for Democrats and mingle with “celebrities and out-of-touch elitists.”
These per-ticket numbers are astounding. If you want to buy one ticket to hobnob with Obama at a TV producer’s Pacific Palisades house, it’ll cost you $16,700! What do you get for that? You get to have a “discussion with the president” in an “intimate, living room style event” with only 30 other fat cats.
Tickets to other Southland events with Obama Thursday evening cost between $2,500 and $33,400 (and no, that’s not a typo, people are really paying that much). Want a photo keepsake with the president for that vanity wall? You’ll have to pony up $10,000 for that one picture. Heck, you can take a picture with me and I’ll only charge you 25 bucks.
Obama and the Democrats should hang their heads in shame as they insist they really represent the little guys in America. I don’t see any of those “little guys” getting their pictures taken with Obama or chatting in an intimate setting in Pacific Palisades with the Leader of the Free World.
As bad as these astounding numbers are, you and I have to suffer for it all by being stuck in yet another one of Obama’s massive Southland traffic jams created by presidential motorcade road closures.
Of course every president needs appropriate security. But while Obama sits behind tinted windows in his limo with plush leather and quiet, air conditioned luxury, and his tax-supported chauffeur figures out what turn to take next, the rest of us “little guys” trying to get home to dinner or have a little fun are frustrated, irritated, puzzled and, of course, really, really late.
And then there’s Hillary. She’s in town, too, for fundraisers, but for once in her over-reaching life her $2,700 tickets are modest compared to Obama. Nevertheless, we can expect Hillary also to cause big-wig traffic jams through Friday.
Does Obama even consider what happens to us when he pulls these kinds of gigantic fundraising stunts? Does he care? Isn’t there a better way? This is Obama’s 22nd trip to Los Angeles and Orange counties as president, and almost all included big-money fundraisers.
I thought America long ago rejected the idea of a high-living monarch suggesting we can eat cake if there’s no bread.
Can we do anything about it? Probably not. At least not as long as Obama sees himself better and more deserving than the rest of us ordinary folk who are just trying to get home after a hard day in the still-tough economy Democrats have brought us.
It probably won’t do any good, but maybe if enough of us rise up with complaints, someone may listen. Yes, there is an email address for the White House: whitehouse.gov/contact.
Are we mad as heck and we’re not going to take it any more? Just ask that “little guy” trying to get home to dinner who has been stopped by an army of cops clearing the road for our President Obama.