Over the weekend President and First Lady Obama celebrated their 17th wedding anniversary with a dinner at the Blue Duck Tavern in Georgetown. Mark Silva wrote at The Swamp politics blog that he was troubled “that a simple date at a relatively modestly priced Washington restaurant to celebrate a wedding anniversary - the first for the first couple in the White House - could generate as much venom as it has.” He said it “suggests something deeply troubling about the American mood.”
Silva cited the timing, “at a juncture when several American soldiers have fallen at war in Afghanistan,” and...












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I will admit, however, that their date night in Georgetown is easier on my wallet than their dinner and a movie in Manhattan.
But their recent trips to Copenhagen, to give narcissistic speeches laced with references to I, me and mine, were much worse. The taxpayers shelled out $1.2 million for that farce.