What Todd said. And thanks for proving my point to mixalot.

Here’s a rumor about a married man, giving his wife an expensive ring after the election. Who cares??!! Good for him & better for her. If I had royalties from a book, I’d design and buy my wife a ring worth $30K too.

Another classic example of GOP hypocrisy. Thanks for the refresher course in angry white man syndrome, jealous white girl syndrome or just plain old player hater syndrome.

I know of a gazillion trophy wives in the GOP (you local ladies know who you are!) who have had more than $30,000 worth of work on their faces. Shoot, they’ve probably spent more than that on salon services in the last 5 years. They look so out of touch and out of place, like some sort of GOP Stepford Wife. You Big Poppas which they were all fembots, don’t you? Yuck.

An old, white GOP dude with a comb-over can buy his tricked-out wifey an Escalade or Hummer and no one says a word. Maybe the post’s author, Red Saloon, is jealous because he’s never owned a Caddy and it’s been years since he’s had a humm…….

Then what’s the point of the post? I would really like to know. Is it really newsworthy or relevant to Arizonans that Obama bought an ostentatious ring (which he didn’t)?

No, it is not.

What it is an attempt to start a meme (much like the “lobsters and Iranian caviar for lunch” lie that was attempted during the campaign) that somehow the Obamas think they are better than us, that “oh do they put on airs”. Sorry – seen it before. D.W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation” being one example. Limbaugh’s playing of “The Jeffersons” theme when Sen. Mosely-Braun’s name was mentioned on his show another.

Throw in Iris’ desire to brand the relationship of the Obamas to that of a whore and her client, and DisappointedAmerican’s likening of it to that of an (alleged) rapist and his victim (which had the racist oggity-boogity of a black man/white woman dynamic), and sorry – this wasn’t a post to illict “Aw, that’s sweet – Barack bought Michelle an extravgant gift”.

So, I invite Carnelian Saloon to come back and explain why this post was worthy of inclusion, why an errata hasn’t been posted, and to disavow some of the uglier comments here.

Until then, I interpret this through the prisim of history – and growing up in the South, I saw a lot of this particular history.

And I make no apologies about my transposition of two letters. My mind works faster than my fingers. Wasn’t my argument.

That’s disgusting, betond deplorable, but typical of a liberal democrat. Assume the absolute worst about anyone who disagrees with you.

And since we’re counting spelling as a sign of intelligence, Klute you mispelled one of the most common words — “thier”…

And John Kerry did get two purple hearts for non-self-inflicted wounds.

And Dan Rather’s Nat’l Guard documents on George Bush were “fake but accurate.”

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1208/Obama_aide_denies_ring_story.html

But I know, it sounded plausible, right? After all, them blacks like thier bling, right?

Stay classy, Sonoran Alliance.

In other words, Obama talks a lot about helping the poor, but a $30k ring suggests to me that, in his case, charity begins at home… and not in a good way.

Or is Obama simply telling us “do as say, not as I do”?