The rules are for thee, certainly not for me

I was going to do a post on this very same subject, but Les Jones has wrapped up the various points quite nicely, so I'll just reprint his take on it, with a minor addition from Mitch Berg:


“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.”– Barack Obama May, 2008

Hot Air notes the irony of that statement in light of today’s New York Times:

"The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat.
“He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.”"

As Mitch notes, hadn't Obama been living in Chicago for more than twenty years at the time he was elected President? You'd think he would have adapted just a little bit by now to a colder climate. Or are his lackeys now pimping his Hawaiian roots because Chicago has become a little too "hot" for Obama lately, now that the governor he so passionately campaigned for has been impeached and removed, and is facing hard time in a Federal pen?

Back to Les:

And as far as eating as much as you want, Patterico notices Obama’s tastes:

"It Was Really Bad When Auto Executives Sought Tens of Billions of Dollars and Flew on Corporate Jets

But it’s cool for Obama to celebrate the passage of a trillion-dollar stimulus package with a celebration that includes wagyu steak. What’s that, you ask? I don’t know either, but it apparently cost $100 for a 16-ounce steak . . . in 2004."

It’s almost as if Obama is just another two-faced politician.

I wonder if there was cake for dessert, as in "Let them eat cake".

Just another example of the elitists imposing rules that they have absolutely no intention of following themselves. They're too important, you see.