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Lie, Lie, Lie.
Can't wait for Les Kinsolving's next question to butt-boy.
The foreign occupier is a traitor and a commie, and who knows what else.
WAKE UP AMERICA
President Obama salutes
Posted on 08/07/2010 4:06:04 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
Outrage grows at the unblushing arrogance of a luxurious taxpayer-funded trip to Spain in the deepest depths of the Obama recession...
Michelle Obama today faced a fresh wave of attacks over her lavish break in Spain with 40 friends which has cost U.S. taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars. The First Lady has been lambasted for her extravagance at a time when the economy is still struggling. One blogger went so far as to brand her a modern-day Marie Antoinette...
The exact cost of the trip is unclear as Mrs Obama, 46, and her friends are footing personal expenses - including accommodation at Marbella's five-star Hotel Villa Padierna - themselves. But the taxpayer will have to pick up the tab for the First Lady's 68-strong security detail, her personal staff - and the use of presidential jet Air Force Two.
The cost of accommodating the secret service team runs at around £172 each a day which amounts to nearly $100,000 for the length of the summer break. Use of Air Force Two, the Air Force version of a 757, comes in at $145,900 for the round trip. This does not include time on the ground. The American public will also cover the cost of the only official part of the holiday, a visit to the Spanish royal family on the island of Majorca. A conservative estimate puts the total amount at around $225,000.
Back in the U.S., anger was mounting - especially as it has emerged the First Lady will have enjoyed eight holidays by the end of the summer. These include a trip to Los Angeles in June, a visit to the Florida's oil-hit Gulf Coast next weekend and a ten-day trip to Martha's Vineyard later this month.
White House press secretary Robin Gibbs was asked at a briefing if there were any concerns about how the visit was being viewed by the public. 'The First Lady is on a private trip,' he said. 'She is a private citizen and is the mother of a daughter on a private trip. I think I'd leave it at that.'
Yesterday New York Daily News columnist and blogger Andrea Tantaros likened the President’s wife to French queen Marie Antoinette, who was famously extravagant with her spending. Tantaros wrote: ‘To be clear, what the Obamas do with their money is one thing; what they do with ours is another. Transporting and housing the estimated 70 Secret Service agents who will flank the material girl will cost the taxpayers a pretty penny.’
She accused the Obamas of hypocrisy for preaching the values of sacrifice and austerity to Americans while seemingly refusing to heed their own advice. She said: ‘Instead, Michelle Obama seems more like a modern-day Marie Antoinette… than an average mother of two.’ She added: ‘I don't begrudge anyone rest and relaxation when they work hard. We all need downtime - the First Family included.
‘It's the extravagance of Michelle Obama's trip and glitzy destination contrasted with President Obama's demonisation of the rich that smacks of hypocrisy and perpetuates a disconnect between the country and its leaders'
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So Michelle Obama's having a great time screwing-around in Spain with 40 hangers-on, this immediately on the heels of her and Barack's Maine and Martha's Vineyard trips last month... and at an incremental cost to the US taxpayer of almost half-a-million dollars!
Michelle Obama's crew has taken an entire floor of the 5-star Villa Padierna in Marbella... rated as one of the finest hotels in the world.
At least Jimmy Carter knew enough to stay home and put on a sweater, joining us in the malaise... as my dad would have said, these Obamas must really think they're something...
http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/2010/08/michelle-obamas-binge-in-spain-modern.html
When 40 Acres & A Mule Just Aren’t Enough...
Everyone can howl like banshees about both of them and they could not care less.
I think they enjoy the unrest they cause.
It’s the Obama’s way of giving American’s the finger.
The Reparations Tour!!!!
Visiting all the colonial empires of Europe...where the horror (that is America) began.
i am enjoying the unrest they cause: it just builds a stronger case for throwing Dems out in November. keep these episodes a-comin’!!!!
You are both absolutely correct!
The political tone deafness is utterly astounding-
Sightings of the Yeti seem to go up wherever she goes.
They act like Lotto winnwers from da Hood.
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Lie, Lie, Lie.
Can't wait for Les Kinsolving's next question to butt-boy.
The foreign occupier is a traitor and a commie, and who knows what else.
Indeed. But they don’t give a sh*t. They’re laughing at us.
“and her friends are footing personal expenses”
Yea, in that they pay for their own trinkets at some souvenir stand.
Michele planning the trip back in April, on the phone with Rev Wright:
“How can I piss away a million dollars of white peoples hard earned money, and then rub it in their faces for a week? Oh, I know, go on a Million dollar vacation while they are losing unemployment benefits! Black Power Baby!!”
She is traveling on a U.S. Air Force plane with a massive security detail paid for by the taxpayers.
I know of NO private citizens who travel like that.
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