Next Time Mayor Bloomberg, Please Send Your Jet. Republicans Are All Hot and Bothered

NEW YORK Loves the Obamas. Broadway NEEDS the publicity! So does the CITY. Republicans never cared about New York anyway. I've had it!

Please note that POTUS and FLOTUS did not fly in Air Force One, as the RNC states. They took a much smaller Gulfstream, presumably to save money and avoid controversy. I got that part right this morning, based on the Daily News report.

I repeat, the Obamas DID NOT gas up a 747 to go to the theater in New York.

This trip is not the ultimate extravagance. The Obamas can't exactly get on the Delta Shuttle, for heavens sake. Just today, some madman posted a classified ad in Pa, wanting POTUS assassinated. 

For 10 years of my life, I flew in Gulfstreams constantly. This is craziness from the Republicans and an attempt to pit Americans against each other. Let's not fall for it. We hang together.  Anne

via Politico:

The Republican National Committee slammed the outing in an "RNC Research Piece": "As President Obama prepares to wing into Manhattan’s theater district on Air Force One to take in a Broadway show, GM is preparing to file bankruptcy and families across America continue to struggle to pay their bills. ... Have a great Saturday evening – even if you’re not jetting off somewhere at taxpayer expense. ... PUTTING ON A SHOW: Obamas Wing Into The City For An Evening Out While Another Iconic American Company Prepares For Bankruptcy."

The RNC's Gail Gitcho added: "If President Obama wants to go to the theater, isn’t the Presidential box at the Kennedy Center good enough?” more