Obamapples, 4 for a buck (McCain, Barack Obama, cost, bias)

[uggabugga]

cheap, or just out of touch?

Like all elected leaders, President Barack Obama has experienced his share of gaffes and mistakes. For instance, the time he talked during the 2008 campaign about having visited all 57 states or the clumsy way he inserted himself into the controversy involving the Cambridge police and a well-known member of the Harvard faculty, calling the police “stupid.”

The latest gaffe came Monday during a trip to Philadelphia when, according to the Associated Press, “he picked up four apples from a fruit stand,” for which he handed the vendor the princely sum of $1.


More Evidence of Pro-Obama Mainstream Media Bias - Peter Roff (usnews.com)

[lifelongMOgal]

Bammers was just hanging on to the profits the apple farmer might receiv to redistrubute it to others, thereby by-passing all federal bureaucracies.

The great 0 was telling the fruitstand owner is that the government would decide what price he could charge for apples, period.

Edited to add: both cheap and out of touch.

[Calvinist]

Originally Posted by uggabugga

cheap, or just out of touch?

It's obvious he's out of touch. It's been obvious for some time.

[summers73]

I guess he thought he was getting the "comrade commissar" discount.

The merchant can expect to get audited next year.

[wrench409]

I wonder if he paid sales tax on his purchase.

[BobKovacs]

And I'm sure Bush, McCain, Palin, et al are fully in touch with the cost of apples at the local fruit stand, seeing how they certainly all do their own daily shopping, right?

[Calvinist]

Originally Posted by BobKovacs

And I'm sure Bush, McCain, Palin, et al are fully in touch with the cost of apples at the local fruit stand, seeing how they certainly all do their own daily shopping, right?

Did you read the article? The point was that you and I both know that if it was Bush, Palin, or any other conservative, the media would be running with it. With obama it's just a "guess he doesn't shop much nowadays, heh heh heh".

[gallowsCalibrator]

That's interesting. I can pick up 4 apples from the local Farmer's Market and pay about a buck. What was the vendor charging?

[BobKovacs]

Originally Posted by Calvinist

Did you read the article? The point was that you and I both know that if it was Bush, Palin, or any other conservative, the media would be running with it. With obama it's just a "guess he doesn't shop much nowadays, heh heh heh".

Didn't have to- the post wasn't about the article and how it would have been different if it was Bush or Palin- it was about Obama being "out of touch", as evidenced by the first line of the post. Just another opportunity to blow a minor incident out of proportion.

[njguy]

Should've gave the vendor at least $5.00 so to redistribute his wealth.