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Posted on 04/01/2014 7:47:26 PM PDT by Mount Athos
IN a major behind-the-scenes blowout, President BARACK OBAMA and first lady MICHELLE waged their worst White House fight ever over her lavish vacation trip to China!
Sources tell The ENQUIRER that Obama exploded when Michelle refused to cancel her pricey getaway – even after White House advisers warned him that the first couple’s six-year string of extravagant vacations had already drained the U.S. Treasury of a whopping $150 million in taxpayers’ money.
Michelle arrived in Beijing with her mother, Marian Robinson, and the Obamas’ daughters, 15-year-old Malia and Sasha, 12, on March 20 for a planned seven-day, three-city trip.
They checked into the lavish presidential suite at the Beijing Westin hotel, costing a whopping $8,350 per night.
One published report quoted hotel employees grumbling about Michelle’s mom “barking at the staff ” and added that the first lady’s party was “inconveniencing pretty much everyone.”
Besides the family’s annual August vacation on ritzy Martha’s Vineyard and Christmas holiday in Hawaii, Michelle jetted off to Mexico and Spain in 2010, and kicked up her heels at a posh ski resort in Vail, Colo., in 2011.
In March 2011, she spent five days in Latin America with her mother and daughters. Three months later, they were joined by Michelle’s niece and nephew for a safari in South Africa.
In June 2013, the first lady spent two days in Ireland. That trip required booking 30 rooms at an exclusive hotel for her staff and security detail, costing taxpayers a reported $5 million.
“Michelle does whatever she wants and goes wherever she wants. It’s as if she’s tacked up a map of the world and put pins on all the places she wants to visit. The sad part is that taxpayers are paying for her bucket list.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalenquirer.com ...
Don’t forget the Enquirer was the ONLY outlet to cover the John Edwards affair. But this story is definately a prank. Barry couldn’t care less about tax dollars when it comes to their insatiable appetite for oppulance.
They also broke the Edwards story of his mistress.
You travel like a Queen when you’re married to a King.
The Enquirer has a very strong record of NOT losing libel cases ... they have only lost a few and settled one out of court ... they verify and verify and verify and run stories past their legal department before printing anything major! They are usually the smoke that indicates fire ... it will be interesting!
Horses ass doesn’t have 7 friends much less 70.
Bottom feeding sucker fish is more like it.
Of course. She will leave after he is out of office and take half of all the cash he embezzled from us taxpayers.
It’s a sad state of affairs when the National Inquirer is a more reputable news source than the so called Main Stream Media!
If NE says “an insider says...” that makes me believe that the insider really said it. It doesn’t make it true, of course.
OOGA BOOGA AND REGGIE WENT TO FIRE ISLAND.
Do you recall how you heard about that rumor? What exactly was said on the subject?
In the introduction to Batboy Lives! former managing editor Sal Ivone said, "If someone calls me up and says their toaster is talking to them, I don't refer them to professional help, I say, 'Put the toaster on the phone.'"
I presume all of these taxpayer's dimes have been appropriated in the normal way by the GOP majority in the House.
Most here don’t even remember Monica.
They rather cast stones at activist news sources.
That is VERY funny.
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Edwards barred from Bunny Mellon’s funeral
When the former politician and his daughter Cate Edwards, who is also his law partner, arrived Friday at Mellon’s funeral at Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville, Va., he was barred from entering, a source connected to the Mellon family told NY Social Diary blogger David Patrick Columbia.
“The service may have been open to the public, but he was not welcome,” Columbia said.
Edwards and his daughter watched with the rest of the overflow crowd on a big screen in the adjacent parish house.
After a moving eulogy by actor Frank Langella, and a poignant rendition of “The Rose” by Bette Midler, the thick-skinned Edwards — seemingly oblivious to the family’s wishes — followed the funeral procession to the cemetery.
“He was working the crowd near the graveside after the service,” Columbia said.
Thanks for that. I didn’t see him getting barred. Trinity Episcopal Church (which was originally a gift from the Mellons) is very small and can’t hold a big crowd anyway so there were a lot of people who didn’t get in.
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