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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This was Friday...
First Lady Michelle Obama christened a ship, National Security Cutter Stratton on Friday in Pascagoula, Miss., part of a day-long trip to the Gulf Coast city. The visit was her second trip to the region since April’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Dressed in a stylish silver skirt and sleeveless white top, Obama broke a champagne bottle over the ship’s bow on her second swing, prompting cheers from the more than 3,000 spectators at the Northrop Grumman Pascagoula shipyard.
http://washingtonscene.thehill.com/in-the-know/36-news/5257-michelle-obama-visits-the-gulf-coast-
Accompanying the first lady on the day-long visit was Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.), Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Robert J. Papp, and Mississippi First Lady Marsha Barbour, the wife of President Obama’s potential 2012 challenger, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R).
Obama also stopped for a briefing early in the day at the Coast Guard Station in Pascagoula
this administration is going to stand with the people of the Gulf until folks are made whole again.”
"...and that right there is the key to who's paying for the trip!"
Since when do we pay for 'Old Friends' to do official business?
Someone better be checking if the 'the old friends' are paying their own way!!
If not - then we all should go!!
White House Denies Obama Marbella Visit
July 26, 2010
According to news reports from AFP, officials at the White House “denied on Sunday reports from Spanish media that US President Barack Obama and his family would take a holiday early August in the posh southern Spanish resort city of Marbella”.
The Obamas have an official schedule planning a “getaway” for the disaster struck US-Gulf Coast as well as the northeastern vacation spot off Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard said the White House officials.
The trip to Marbella was said to include a stay at the luxury resort Villa Padierna, part of the Ritz-Carlton Group of Hotels.
http://www.spanishnews.es/wp-content/uploads/Villa-Padierna-e1280137784861.jpg
PLEASE STAND UP if there is anyone left who believes anything that comes out of Obama, et al mouths.
Who is paying for this posh hedonistic vacation? The fascist-commie pigs 0bozo & his phat ass wife & brat daughter? I would imagine the taxpayers will pick up most if not all the tab on this, no matter what the commie pig or WH claims. RAT bastards! I hope 0bozo & his entire family roast forever in Hell, which I am sure is their eternal destination.
I think its more like the Clinton's than anything else.
A marriage of political convenience.
And, like the Clinton's, they're both in love with one person.
‘All activities are closed press’...
If the taxpayer’s are paying for it nothing should be closed to the press. We also have a right to know who she is taking with her on our dime!
And ironically, the press isn't complaining.
I have no idea what marriage to a narcissist must be like, but from what I’ve been reading since B.O. was “immaculated,” it must be absolutely awful. We heard the stories about flying lamps and other objects in the Clinton’s marriage. One can only imagine what goes on behind the doors now. Would love to read the tell-all one day.
>Michelle Obama has reserved about 30 rooms for herself and her daughter, their friends and bodyguards at a five-star hotel
Good grief! I could see maybe 3 or 4 rooms but 30!!!
I’m sure we are paying for
the whole junket and all of her friends. Can this be summed up into a dollar amount
and plastered all over for us taxpayers to see her waste of our money?
On the bright side, they probably won't be eating Wagyu steaks. I'm sure the Spanish have some more "modest" local quisine of which they will partake. For sure they won't be eating "cake".
Where does it say that she is paying for this herself ? You have to be kidding.
............... White House “denied on Sunday reports from Spanish media that US President Barack Obama and his family would take a holiday early August in the posh southern Spanish resort...............
Ain’t nobody claiming that BHO goin’ to Spain, jus the Wookie
“It depends on what is, is!”
THIRTY ROOMS??????????????
I know ONE person who isn’t on THIS trip
REGGIE LOVE
.................. Can this be summed up into a dollar amount
and plastered all over for us taxpayers to see her waste of our money..................
Great question!
If Biden took AF2 from DC to NOLA for the day, and billed BP an unitemized $90,000 for the trip, just think what this “private trip with old friends” will cost!
Evidently, Reggie Love went on their vacation to Maine too. Who takes their personal aide on a family vacation?
That picture on Drudge with Obama walking with the oldest daughter and Michelle and the youngest daughter way behind speaks volumes. Michelle almost looks like a Muslim wife walking behind her man.
The whole Reggie Love story is very strange.
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