Suze Orman, personal finance guru and Chancellor Of Extremely Tough Love, stopped by The View today for a wide-ranging discussion that included, unsurprisingly, a conversation about President Obama’s recent announcement in support of gay marriage. Orman, herself openly gay and happily married, shared her reaction to Obama’s statement — and gave an emotional plea for more support for gay marriage.

Last week, we explored the Suze Orman-sponsored prepaid credit card, a purple piece of plastic for which the financial guru has taken a lot of heat. She appeared on Piers Morgan Tonight yesterday evening, where, naturally, she defended the card. We’re not entirely sure we buy the defense though.

Somewhere out there, there’s a diehard TV talk show devotee who just used her prepaid Suze Orman debit card to buy Jean Chatzky-branded office supplies from Office Depot. Two of TV’s leading female personal finance experts — who spend their on-air hours advocating thoughtful saving and frugal spending — are somehow convincing people to spend those saved-up dollars on Suze and Jean branded products. Critics are crying foul. Should you?

Suze Orman would like to know why you never listen to her.

Orman has good advice, most of the time. It’s usually pretty straight-forward stuff that we already know (don’t spend beyond your means, don’t let yourself get into credit card debt, no you can’t buy that pony), but it helps to have the wisdom barked at us by an over-caffeinated barracuda in a pantsuit. It helps us understand.

There are some times, however, that we all have a little bit of a hard time taking her advice. And then Orman gets angry. And you don’t want to see Orman when she’s angry.