What Barack Obama could learn from "Bewitched"

President Barack Obama took his wife Michelle out on Saturday night for what they like to call "date night."

They went to dinner and a show.

Dinner in New York City and a Broadway show.

The White House has a movie theater and a bowling alley, but that's only a romantic date if you're seventeen.

So they flew to New York in an Air Force jet, along with two planes carrying the staff and the White House press pool, the Marine One helicopter and the motorcade vehicles, at a cost the White House will not disclose.

Then they flew back to Washington, D.C.

There was no official business that required the president's presence in New York City. He just wanted to take his wife out for a nice evening in Manhattan.

Barack Obama is the president of the United States and if he wakes up in the morning and snaps his fingers for pancakes, there will be pancakes.

He could snap his fingers and say "In Paris!" and the U.S. Air Force would fly him to Paris.

The presidency is cool. It's just like a TV sitcom from the 1960s, "Bewitched" or "I Dream of Jeannie."

And just like a TV sitcom, it can be canceled rather abruptly if the ratings drop.

"Bewitched" and "I Dream of Jeannie" both used the same plot device: one lead character was always trying to stop the other lead character from using her powers.

Did you ever wonder why?

It's because the taxpayers don't want to go a trillion dollars into debt so their political leaders can gallivant around like fictional characters in a 1960s TV sitcom.

Actually, it was because the shows would get pretty tedious pretty quickly if the characters got everything they wanted whenever they wanted it.

But the point is the same.

Tick off the American people at your own peril.


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