Malia Obama..."a blonde girl"... did I miss something?
Posted on 01/22/2017 5:56:56 PM PST by drewh
Adding even more stamps to her passport! President Barack Obama’s oldest daughter, Malia Obama, took a secret, two-and-a-half-month trip to South America this past fall, The New York Times reports.
Malia Obama during a tour with the Bolivian Mountain Guides agency on the Cordillera Real mountain range in Bolivia. The 18-year-old spent part of her gap year traveling to Bolivia and Peru before starting at Harvard University this coming fall. Malia traveled with a group of other teens through the Colorado-based organization Where There Be Dragons, which helps students “examine current political trends, social movements and environmental conversation efforts in the mountains and jungles of Bolivia and Peru,” according to the program’s website.
The 83-day trip, which costs $14,555, not including airfare, offers intensive Spanish-language courses and an extended home-stay with a family in the small town of Tiquipaya, Bolivia, near Cochabamba, the program’s website says. Other highlights of the trip feature visits to La Paz, Lake Titicaca and Machu Picchu.
Gregario Mamani, who led the tour group on a five-day trek through Bolivia’s Cordillera Real mountain range, told The New York Times that he and his fellow guides were unaware which teen needed several American bodyguards.
“There was a blonde girl, and we assumed she was the important one,” Mamani said, only later realizing that he was showing the mountain range to the president’s daughter. “She was very humble, chatty, spoke Spanish very well. She was mesmerized by the Bolivian landscape.”
Mamani added that Malia wasn’t given any special treatment during the hike and participated in ordinary chores, such as cooking.
According to Bolivian media reports, President Obama called Bolivia’s President Evo Morales to ask for his assistance in assuring his daughter’s safety and keeping her visit quiet. White House officials declined to comment to The New York Times about the phone call.
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Too bad it wasn’t the POTUS who disappeared for two months. We would have been better off.
Mooching off taxpayers money. Glad they are gone.
Wonder if Miss Malia went for the Bolivian Marching Powder. A chip off the old block.
“her gap year”
Described as if it’s usual and acceptable for an 18 year old to be neither in school nor working.
White House Privilege?
Of course, there’s no connection, but I read that a bunch of dead scrotum frogs have washed up on the shores of Lake Titicaca recently.
Where was the LSM? They didn’t notice someone was missing?
Mailia was getting Spanish twerkin lessons.. shes a chip right off the old moochie!
Malia Obama..."a blonde girl"... did I miss something?
Did she join the “shining path” maoists or the Venezuelan chavistas?
They sent her somewhere cheap, that’s a surprise. What did it cost whenever Hillary and Chelsea would go shopping in Europe for a week? That’s a deep dark secret there.
She may become a Community Organizer for the Shining Path guerrillas in Peru.
Reading comprehension.
so Moochie was paying her own money for this trip?
Secret. Daughter of the U.S. president. Huh.
I don’t care what Malia does, or where she gets her Marxist endoctrination. The Obama name is dirt for the remainder of our republic.
And Bolivia’s Evo Morales is a communist too. Sure to be on the heals of Venezuela for UN dependency of maintaining human suffering.
Imagine if this White House tried something like that with Baron Trump. The media would out him in a second.
Hard to believe that Malia Ann Obama might become a MAOist ...
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