[DustyMoment]

Why are the taxpayers funding this trip?? The FLOTUS is NOT an elected representative of the United States and has NO official state function.

If s/he wishes to champion ugly causes in the US (such as the promotion of ugly breast belts to hide the fact that s/he is fat!) that shouldn’t cost the taxpayers money.

This is sheer BS!!

[Justaham]

Except from an article at the Washington Post!

A less obvious reason was revealed in a small detail. Reporting for Politics Daily, Lynn Sweet wrote that Mrs. Obama traveled to Spain at this particular juncture to comfort a friend whose father had recently died and whose daughter, a friend of 9-year-old Sasha Obama (who accompanied her mother), had especially wanted to celebrate her birthday in Spain.