If it is possible for a president and first lady to be more flippant and arrogant toward the American people, I am unfamiliar with the historical comparison. An Alice in Wonderland bash in the midst of the worst recession in seventy five years? You betcha......
It was the tea party the Obamas just couldn’t resist.
A White
House “Alice in Wonderland” costume ball — put on by Johnny Depp and
Hollywood director Tim Burton — proved to be a Mad-as-a-Hatter idea that
was never made public for fear of a political backlash during hard
economic times, according to a new tell-all.
“The Obamas,” by New
York Times correspondent Jodi Kantor, tells of the first Halloween party
the first couple feted at the White House in 2009. It was so over the
top that “Star Wars” creator George Lucas sent the original Chewbacca to
mingle with invited guests.
The book reveals how any official announcement of the glittering
affair — coming at a time when Tea Party activists and voters furious
over the lagging economy, 10-percent unemployment rate, bank bailouts
and Obama’s health-care plan were staging protests — quickly vanished
down the rabbit hole.
“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’s
and Depp’s contributions went unacknowledged,” the book says.
However,
the White House made certain that more humble Halloween festivities
earlier that day — for thousands of Washington-area schoolkids — were
well reported by the press corps.
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