Inspired by hate, idiot Freepers go all Socialist.

[TheBigotBasher]

It is not the usual place you would find class envy, or "support" for minimum wagers over the rich and famous. Hate and bigotry do however combine to create strange psychological breakdowns in reason and logic.

The Freepers hate these shoes being worn by Michelle Obama.



Why do they hate them? Simply because Michelle Obama is wearing them



The idiot Rethug writes

Barack Obama enjoys living like a king, so why shouldn't Michelle Obama live like a queen?

The First Lady was photographed last night in Hawaii wearing $635 per pair designer shoes by Maison Martin Margiela.

The shoe style is called "Leather open toe flat pumps." It features a "thin nude leather strap across the top of the toe."

A woman lucky enough to have a job in this economy and working for the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour would have to work 88 hours (without taxes taken out) to make enough to pay for Michelle Obama's shoes. If she can get them on sale, they would only set her back $445 for 62 hours work.

The Obamas are staying at an $8.9 million estate for an estimated $4000 per night. To cover the Obama's ten night stay, the minimum wage worker would have to work two-and-a-half years (before taxes) to come up with the $40,000 Obama is reportedly laying out.

Obama has lectured Americans about how they can not expect to live their lives as indulgently as they have in the past. He has lectured businesses about their travel and pay. Yet Obama and his wife live like kings and queens.

The news media has yet to call him out on his extravagance when there is 10% unemployment with no sign of the employment picture improving this coming year.

As if Freepers have ever cared about the low paid or the unwaged. As if Freepers care about what shoes a low income worker can afford to buy. They do not have in their agenda a way of helping the poor or unwaged to buy even the $60 rip offs of these shoes. The last 8 years showed all Freepers cared about were the top 0.1%, never mind the top 1%.

The President is on a salary of $400,000 a year. $8,000 each and every week. I think from that salary, his wife can buy some expensive shoes every now and again. In fact every day if she wanted.

Given that the job is Head of State of the most powerful Country in the World, a power whose light was not only broken, but smashed by their guy, $400k is not an unreasonable recompense for placing you and your family in a glass bowl for the whole World to gawk at.

Freepers, so blinded with hate they whip themselves up in to a bit of old fashioned class war. Teabaggers for Marx.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416710/posts

[phleshdef]

1. Also, the Obama's made some decent money off Barack's book sales and their normal day jobs.

[Cha]

2. I had some freeper whining

at my place of work about Michelle's dresses and that we paid for them.

Which is a complete lie so I'm guessing they're pushing that meme on hateradio?

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. They are just petty and hate filled

Also selfish and ignorant and pathetic and small minded and attention seeking and unAmerican and just downright stupid.

[TheBigotBasher]

6. A good summary

Plus they hate Obama for being elected, for being African American and they still think he is a "scary Muslim".

Their hate makes them unelectable.

[bigwillq]

4. I think they're cool.

The shoes, that is! :)

[tblue]

5. Why do you even go there? I don't have the stomach.

Ignore them. Really, You don't need that negative energy.

[TheBigotBasher]

7. I followed a link from another site.

Then just laughed at the hypocrisy. Selective Marxism for Rethugs.

[tblue]

11. OH sweetie. Save yourself the grief.

I'd have to take a shower after visiting that site.

[TheBigotBasher]

12. Indeed

however their idiocy is often like watching a car crash, you know you should not rubber neck, but you can not help it.

[tblue]

14. At least send them one of these:

[roguevalley]

32. that is an incredibly awesome emoticon. :0)

[bluestateguy]

8. And if she wore cheap ass shoes from Payless they'd say she looks ghetto

and is disgracing the office of the presidency.

So they can do it either way. Either playbook. Whatever works.

[TheBigotBasher]

10. The dirty scum say that as well.

Freepers can never excuse themselves from racism for too long.

[sharp_stick]

9. Although

those are some not too good looking shoes IMO. Look like something you could pull of the shelf of a Target.

It is funny to see freepers go nuts over someone spending their own money though.

[agentS]

13. These damn Freepers...what do they expect Pres. Obama to do, clear brush at a faux ranch?

I see their point, inane as it is. But so do the Dems. THAT'S WHY THE DEMS PASSED A STIMULUS BILL! TO GET PEOPLE SOME JOBS! And that's why there's another JOBS bill in discussion! TO GET PEOPLE JOBS! And who votes against it?! RETHUGS AND FREEPERS!

These guys are so dumb, they make the Dodo bird seem dignified.

[Politicub]

15. I love the shoes!

You go, Michelle!

As an aside, in the fantastic book the Terror Dream, Susan Faludi covers the right's co-opting the left's tactics and rhetoric when it suits their ends. As an example, the right expressed faux concern for the women of Iraq and used feminist vernacular to do it.

[burning rain]

16. Righties deem it acceptable to rant about well-off people who are Democrats,...

or work in Hollywood, or are guilty of being well-off while black. For many low-income righties, it provides a catharsis, an outlet for their class frustrations. It's pitiful, really.

[Patsy Stone]

17. How long would a minumum wage worker

have to work to buy a ranch in Crawford or a compound in Kennebunkport?

[Learning Nomad]

18. Like the shoes, but I'm a little concerned

about the judgment of someone who would pay over $625 for them. They look like they're worth about $25.

[Brickbat]

19. Ha! Agree.

Welcome to DU, by the way. :hi:

[dmr]

22. Did they really cost that much or did the freeper make it up?

Michelle doesn't seem like the type to squander money like that, but what do I know?

:shrug:

[denem]

20. PALIN! - wtf?

[Raine]

21. Don't like those shoes

YUCK I can't imagine paying so much for something that looks those. x( I usually love Michelle's taste in clothing but those shoes are awful IMO.

edit: typo

[Kablooie]

23. They are ugly. Glorifying toes which are just sliced up endings of feet.

[Jamastiene]

25. YOU TOE HATER!1!! WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICAN TOES?!!!??!

Toes are beautiful, imho.
:evilgrin:

I couldn't resist that subject line. It just fit.
:rofl:

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

27. Toes = Beautiful. Shoes = Not.

But then again, I'm a straight male, so my opinions on women's footwear should probably be taken with a grain of salt. Or two.

[Kablooie]

31. I'll put a stop to all the "Toes are beautiful" nonsense right now!

[CJCRANE]

24. Did freepers ever complain about Condi's shoes?

Didn't Condi Rice have an expensive shoe habit? Not to mention Palin's designer clothes fixation.

[AwakeAtLast]

26. Don't you know?

It's O.K. when a Republican does it! Why, they EARN their money, so it's just fine to blow it on whatever they want. ;)

[Tailormyst]

28. Yuck- I don't like them at all.

I think that is the first thing I have seen her wear that I didn't like.

[and-justice-for-all]

29. Uh, I think they can afford it seeing Barack has two best sellers!!

and I am pretty sure they were gainfully employed before he was elected to office too..

[niceypoo]

30. I work with republicans who do this all the time

When people are intellectually dishonest, it becomes very easy to shred their arguments.

[tanyev]

33. Well, they do have a charismatic socialist leader.

[AspenRose]

35. And rimless glasses aren't cheap, either.

[rasputin1952]

34. No complaint about those horrific red dresses Nancy Reagan wore?

I have to admit though..Laura Bush took "frump" to a new level. I figure her wardrobe for 8 years cost $55. That's including the increase in the price of burlap due to inflation.