On Saturday, Michelle and Barack headed to New York City for a date. The evening fulfilled a promise made on the campaign trail (“I am taking my wife to New York City because I promised her during the campaign that I would take her to a Broadway show after it was all finished”) and consisted of dinner at Blue Hill and the Broadway show Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.
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Not everyone felt great about the evening out on the town. The RNC issued a news release chastising Obama for going out when GM was on the eve of filing for Chapter 11: “Obamas wing into the city for an evening out while another iconic American company prepares for bankruptcy.”
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Given the 487 days Bush spent at Camp David and the 490 days he spent at his private ranch in Crawford (yes, that’s over 2 and a half years out of 8), this strikes us as odd.
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