Posted on 07/26/2010 11:58:43 AM PDT by Noob1999
Washington/Madrid - US First Lady Michelle Obama and one of her two daughters will take a summer break in Spain, a White House source said Monday.
Mother and daughter would come to the southern holiday resort of Marbella on a "private visit in the company of old friends," the source told the German Press Agency dpa.
US President Barack Obama will not accompany his wife, the source said.
Spanish media reports said Michelle Obama and her younger daughter Sasha, 9, would be on Spain's Costa del Sol between August 4 and 8.
There had been speculation that Barack Obama might also come to Spain to celebrate his 49th birthday on August 4.
Michelle Obama has reserved about 30 rooms for herself and her daughter, their friends and bodyguards at a five-star hotel in Benahavis near Marbella, hotel sources said.
The US first lady did not make any special requests, hotel owner Ricardo Arranz said, explaining that the hotel would function normally during her stay.
Earlier on Monday, sources at the Zarzuela royal palace declined to say whether King Juan Carlos would meet Michelle Obama, stressing that there was no official confirmation of the first lady's visit to Spain.
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's government had been disappointed in its hopes of hosting Barack Obama when the US president cancelled his participation in a European Union-US summit that had been scheduled during the Spanish EU presidency in the first half of 2010. The summit was subsequently called off. Copyright DPA
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The article on the Spanish Royal Family History and Genaeology in Wikipedia is well done.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Royal_Family
Felipe and Letizia are heirs to the throne, and their daughter, Leonor and Sofia are beautiful children. They look like they stepped right out of a painting by Velasqez
Lordy...we are in for another MoBama emabarrassment...hanging my head...
30 rooms! Wonder what the bill will be for this whole trip, including the cost of transporting them.
Pissing away the confiscated money traded for their labor, their life, is a job michelle is more than happy to do.
If she could, she would piss away every tax dollar. In fact, she is, by borrowing trillions of dollars and pissing it all away.
Any more questions Cracker?
Did Mrs Reagan ever take such lavish vacations or use up so much resources? If so she would have been thoroughly criticized. They had the nerve to say she was a spoiled rich person. The current ones in the White House seem a lot more free with the taxpayers’ money.
Well, don’t you know, she and the man-child constantly need “breaks” from the incredible “pressures of the office” (i.e., something even close to a real job). This guy has never had a job in his life, and thinks that already being president is too hard.
You are right.
Thanks for the ‘November can’t get here quick enough’ ping.
Well Chelsea's wedding is reportedly costing $500 million. I hope to God that the taxpayers aren't footing that bill. I'd be willing to bet Bill & Her Thighness aren't paying this. It's probably coming from doners to the Clinton Library and adult bookstore.
Well he was an ally of Hitler so he was a National Socialist. Just a totalitarian by another name.
This is as bad as the $20M for the stimulus signs. TV 3 in Memphis is raising $$ for AC units for the elderly or frail. IF we have to spend tax $ I’d rather see it put to GOOD use, not wasted. LONG lines at the utility assistance program, most of them minority, lot of them FAT, most of them out of work. We have a 10%+ unemployment factor in Memphis, TN which is RAT controled.
In a word, "yes"...
I hope the Spanish press cover this and I cannot *wait* to see the fashion statements that Michelle will make while in Spain!!
Thirty rooms? She's worse than Imelda Marcos and Marie Antionette combined!
Hildy, where are you getting this information? Thanks.
Very odd, the story is not on Drudge anymore but I have yet to find a retraction anywhere.
UGH!!! Figures... Interesting that you've heard that. My brother-in-law went to the same high school in Honolulu and can't find a single photo of Dear Leader in the yearbook, even though DL was supposedly a big basketball player there. It's all so shady and I can't believe this game is going on so long.
Drudge has links to 5 stories about it.
The pain in Spain should stay mainly on her plane so she doesn’t embarrass us or verbally attack the U.S. on foreign soil.
Don’t forget the Bar Harbor trip that they had to get back from for Broadway at the White House.
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