The BBC reports on the release of a new book by Jodi Cantor in which we learn quite a few interesting things about the depths of depravity that the Obamas are willing to indulge while the rest of us suffer though their controlled economic collapse. It seems that they started throwing lavish parties worthy of a roman emperor right off the bat and don’t care about the money involved. And why should they, after all we are the ones paying the bills so what’s the problem. Of course on a deeper level, they know it’s wrong and we hate what they are doing because they tried to keep it quiet. But sooner or later the truth comes out in the age of new media. Not that we are surprised of course.
After excerpts from the book were published, Britain’s Telegraph newspaper described the Alice In Wonderland event as “an embarrassment for a White House that seems not to have heard of the age of austerity”.
But a White House official said the party was “no secret”.
The Telegraph’s Alex Spillius wrote: “Depp greeted guests in the costume he had worn in a film version of the Lewis Carroll story released around the same time by (Tim) Burton – the film’s director – who was given carte blanche to transform the state dining room into a Mad Hatter’s tea party.”
In Kantor’s book, The Obamas, she states: “White House officials were so nervous about how a splashy, Hollywood-esque party would look to jobless Americans or their representatives in Congress, who would soon vote on health care, that the event was not discussed publicly and Burton and Depp’s contributions went unacknowledged.”
She describes a long table at the party as being “set with antique-looking linens, enormous stuffed animals in chairs, and tiered serving plates with treats like bone-shaped meringue cookies”.
