Posted on 08/05/2010 3:38:48 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Sacrifice is something that many Americans are becoming all too familiar with during this economic downturn. It was a key theme in President Obama's inaugural address to the nation, and he's referenced it numerous times when lecturing the country on how to get back on its feet.
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While many of us are struggling, the First Lady is spending the next few days in a five-star hotel on the chic Costa del Sol in southern Spain with 40 of her "closest friends."
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To be clear, what the Obamas do with their money is one thing; what they do with ours is another. Transporting and housing the estimated 70 Secret Service agents who will flank the material girl will cost the taxpayers a pretty penny.
Perhaps it could be that the Obamas, who seem to fancy themselves more along the lines of international celebrities than actual leaders, espouse a different view of sacrifice. When Michelle Obama accompanied her husband to Copenhagen along with best buddy Oprah Winfrey, she billed the trip - an ultimately unsuccessful bid to bring the Olympics to Chicago - as follows: "As much of a sacrifice as people say this is for me or Oprah or the President to come for these few days, so many of you in this room have been working for years to bring this bid home."
A quick jaunt to Denmark is a sacrifice? What portraits in courage!
The Obama modus operandi is becoming clear. From lavish trips to Spain to reportedly flying Bo, the President's Portuguese water dog, on a separate aircraft to vacation with them in Maine, to a date night in New York City that perhaps cost nearly $100,000, their idea of austerity is really just the lap of luxury, at least for ordinary folks.
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Spain is a beautiful country.
By being there, Mrs. Obama spoils it.
Everywhere this trash couple goes is stained forever.
The author of this thread is acting like a typical white person.
Been there...Done that...just passing thru of course. Too many damn pasty Brits on package tours there to stay for long.
She's smiling 'cause she has the damned US Treasury to use, instead of her Amex.
The leeches probably canceled every card they had before, since we pay for her crap, now.
Yeah, I know it's petty of me to complain, but nobody voted for her.
(Far as that goes, I can't find anybody now that will admit to voting for him!)
She's entitled, just ask Jesse!
They need to regain those white votes who have been abandoning Big Obrother in droves.
Why should she not enjoy herself meanwhile, doing the Costa Del Sol and hoping to meet a few of the rare party gals who can clear an SS security check? Its the liberal leftist way.
Here above in April 2010 , Michelle cound npt resist a snog with Sarkozy's wife,model and sexual adventurist, Carla Brunei
But the US taxpayer should NOT be paying for Michelles snogging holiday in Spain..
Yeah, but it’s not a ni e, even one - notice the strap marks.
“To be clear, what the Obamas do with their money is one thing;”
Under the circumstances, that isn’t even necessarily true - “I do believe there is a point at which you’ve made enough money.”
Like the TV Jeffersons, but with a lot less class.
Please tell me that butt’s been photoshopped.
Even if it has, most of the time she chooses ill fitting pants. As in The Emperor’s New Clothes, her handlers must be afraid to tell her how ridiculous she looks.
At least the premise of that show was that the Jeffersons had earned their money by working their rear ends off. George Jefferson, after all, had "clawed and scratched his way up from the bottom."
Marie Antionette Obama says, “Don’t let that fat kid eat that cake!”
I don't have an army of gardeners, but my vegetable garden looks pretty darn good, this year. I am the Army of One.
But, you're right. It pisses me off when Michelle goes out to her perfectly manicured, professionaly managed garden and picks out a beet the size of your head and exclaims, "I did it all by myself!"
BTW... If you wants tomatoes... I gots tomatoes!
If a Republican President and spouse were doing this the Dems would be raising hell and trying to restrict their travel budget.
George Jefferson was a bit of a blowhard, but his wife Weezy kept him in line. It was at the time a funny bit of black/white role reversal that the Jeffersons "moved on up" from Archie Bunker's neighborhood. Most follow-on shows aren't as successful as "the Jeffersons."
George was prone to bouts of reveling in his success. Does this remind anyone of our First Couple?
Ill fitting? Well that's one way of saying it, Michelle just likes to have a half wedgie when she snogs her girl.
IMHO, the Obamas are like garden gates,they swing both ways. The body language is unmistakable.
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