Posted on 08/02/2010 11:18:10 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
It seems an unlikely holiday destination for a First Lady, but the Costa del Sol resort of Marbella will be the setting for Michelle Obama's summer break.
More commonly associated with reality television stars and gangsters, Mrs Obama and her youngest daughter Sasha have booked 30 rooms at the Villa Padierna, one of Spain's most exclusive hotels, in the Andalusion resort.
But the booking is likely to raise questions over use of taxpayer's money as an entourage of secret service agents will protect Mrs Obama and her nine-year-old daughter.
Prices at the Villa Padierna - a golf and spa resort - start from £210 per night and can cost up to £4,175 for a private villa within the hotel grounds.
Mrs Obama will pay an official visit to Spain's King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia. Spanish newspapers hve said the royal family invited her to join them at their summer palace on Majorca.
Marbella has been struggling to restore its 1960s reputation, when the likes of the Kennedys enjoyed holidays on the south Spain coast alongside European aristocrats and Hollywood actresses.
The town has been beset by accusations of corruption after mayor Jesús Gil was forced to resign over a property scandal in 2002 and his successor Julián Muñoz faces trials on charges of abusing planning permission.
In 2006, the entire town hall administration was summarily dismissed by the Madrid government. Juan Antonio Roca, chief of urban planning at the time, was jailed and faces further charges later this year.
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Remember how her people put word out that it was so unfair the First Lady didn’t get her own salary?
None of which changes the fact that those books were put on the shelves in the Kennedy administration.
ewwwwwwwwwwwwww, my eyes!!! SO DESECRATED THE CANYON!
Maybe her trip out of the country was a gift to obummer. And he in turn is going to Chicago for “political” reasons. He will be able to see his friends and lovers at the old gay hangouts they use to frequent. Check out “Man's Country” on Google for further info.
So what? She's as much a radical leftist as her husband.
Hmmmmmm.....
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