Posted on 08/20/2009 11:53:52 AM PDT by kristinn
The White House booked 400 (FOUR HUNDRED) hotel rooms at the Big Sky Resort for Barack Obama's overnight visit last week for a town hall meeting in nearby Bozeman, Montana. Two floors were completely taken over, including the penthouse suites.
While the national news media is ignoring the story, local media let the news slip in their gushing stories of how thrilling it was to have Obama in their midst.
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported on Tuesday on Obama's visit, quoting Big Sky Resort spokesman Dax Schieffer:
The First Family stayed in one of the eight penthouses on the tenth floor of Big Sky Resorts Summit Hotel on Friday night, said resort spokesman Dax Schieffer. The entire tenth and ninth floor were reserved for the Obamas and family as well as White House and Secret Service staff.
All in all we had about 400 people as part of the group, Schieffer said.
NewWest.net spoke with Big Sky Resort general manager Taylor Middleton for an article published Sunday:
We ultimately had 400 rooms reserved, said Middleton, noting that there were various entities within the Presidential entourage - security, press, admin staff, culinary staff - and their arrangements were somewhat coordinated and somewhat uncoordinated.
President Obama with Barb Starz, Dax Schieffer and Brian Stumpf of Big Sky Resort. Photo courtesy of Big Sky Resort
From Montana, Obama and his entourage went on to Boulder, Colorado on Saturday for another town hall and then flew to Phoenix, Arizona Saturday night for a speech to the VFW convention on Monday. Obama and entourage stayed at The Phoenician which describes itself as "Your Premier Luxury Destination". There are no apparent media reports on how many rooms the White House took at the Phoenician, but it would seem that 400 rooms would be consistent with the trip.
Obama and his family took time for various sightseeing and recreational activities on their Western tour.
Obama is scheduled to vacation next week at the 28.5 acre Blue Heron Farm in Martha's Vineyard.
The Vineyard Gazette reports weekly rentals for comparable properties run from $35,000 to $50,000.
There is no word yet on how many rooms will be rented by the White House for staff staying on Martha's Vineyard with Obama.
How many times has this family used our money to go swanning around the world?
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Every single time. You notice how this time they hid all photos of the extended family which proves they know it’s wrong.
I believe you have reason to be chilled, my friend. Obama has plans to make our country over into what he thinks it should be—a gravy train for those he believes were slighted and pushed aside. He has plans for reparations, Obama-style.
We all have reason to fear. Tonite on Fox News it was disclosed that NBC has a company store which is selling Obama t-shirts, hats, etc—they are in his pocket. Whatever happened to our investigative reporters? I’m beginning to think he’s the 21st Century version of the Pied Piper.
You are comparing apples to oranges and you know it. That was for an overseas summit. Not a one nighter in Montana.
Do you buy that? That expensive food at the White House and tours all over the world for all these free-loaders keeps him safe?
I'm just asking 'cause I couldn't tell if you said this with sarcasm or not.
They went to church on Easter Sunday and MO looked pissed. The Easter photo op was the only time they have been as far as I know.
Not much I could do about these little bandits but try to trap the darn freeloaders...........
Actually I don't think obama gives a flying flip about anyone for empathy's sake, period...this is all being done to set up permanently his core base that will keep him and his minions in power from now on!
If this all goes as this dictator is trying to get it to go, I truly believe he plans on becoming just that, a dictator for life!...marshall law will have to be enforced for some manufactured reason and for the good of the country, the laws will all be changed so that he can continue to rule.
Think that's just a crazy woman's theory? Just think about what he has tried to do to this country and the common folk in these 7 months he has been in office.
Just stating a fact. He’s almost daring kooks. IMO he is setting himself up to have someone make some move so that it will create a crisis and he can declare a national emergency.
It is very difficult for the SS to keep up with all the traveling and communities he had traveled to. We had a local man who was SS assigned to the WH for a couple of presidents. It takes weeks of preparation. BO isn’t giving them enough time to prepare. ANd he’s either fired or others have left.
Notice the use of swat teams in Georgia a few weeks ago. They were not the regular SS agents. Not enough SS agents. Will he hire the black panthers next?
Saw an article that said SS was getting as many as fifty threats a day...Too many to investigate throughly. Bound to make him paranoid. tic tic tic.
Yikes! I'd better slow down whenever reading stuff about all the dollars this ba$tard is burning thru!
As you can see it truly makes me so mad I cannot see straight! LOL!
Again, I apologize for misreading.
Understanding....I’ve been doing research to keep my mind busy. You near CA or WA state?
I can totally agree with that...see this post, from another thread I posted earlier.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2320631/posts?page=168#168
Yep...WA, why?
OH Gee Louize that make me laugh True
I take the soap and shampoo
I agree, he is either pretending to know what the dickens he is doing and how he is to behave or his arrogance is beyond anything I have ever seen.
Michelle isn’t as good of an actor as the nose in the air husband of hers but she seems to be enjoying the tour of the world pretty well herself. Grandma, the girls, most likely Michelle’s extended family and half of Hyde Park is probably along for the ride. Yep, were in a recession and Obama is spending like an idiot teenager who found his dad’s credit card and can only think, now I can get whatever I want.
Why in the world do they need a culinary staff for one night?
“Obama is scheduled to vacation next week at the 28.5 acre Blue Heron Farm in Martha’s Vineyard.”
Praying for Hurricane Bill to hit the Vineyard right after Obama and his entourage arrive there!
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