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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They are going to milk it for all they can, they feel they are entitled. The more we the people talk about it, the more she will flip us the serfs the finger and do whatever the hel she wants. It’s mainly her, not him. She is VERY materialistic and spends and insane amount on clothes, shoes, jewelry, etc.
She’s very into herself and a huge attention whore. She has had plenny of plastic surgery since she entered the WH and I keep watching for her new boob job. She has no boobs and an enormous as* and hips. Keep watching, she will probably go small at first and have them add more, so that they gradually increase. I already suspect she had this done in California when she stayed at the billionaires home a few weeks ago. She was really MIA for about 3 days.
Spain is very expensive now, considering the Euros. They are taking advantage of their position to do as much traveling- dining - and wining at the tax payers expense because they know this is the only opportunity they will have. He knows that he will never be given a second term. I think MO is loving living like a queen and that she would do just about anything to stay in that Wh for 8 years.
The most shameless 1st Lady in the history of the USA. If you spend your own money, you have the right not to allow the press to be present. You spend our money; we want to know what money is spent for. Do you need to go with a tribe of people and use 60 rooms? We, the people think, that Barry and you redistributed too much of our wealth for your personal agenda.
We are wise to the game they play. Mooch-mooch—mooch!!! Michelle Antoinette will justify the lavish, expensive vacation and grab it on the taxpayers’ dime by meeting with the king of Spain and therefore making the trip “official business. This isn’t the first time this has happened. The Grand Canyon vacation was also on our dime. Barry and Michelle made up a lame excuse to justify it. 60 rooms at a 5-star hotel is not a trip with minimal staff.
They need to pay for their own frequent vacations. I guarantee you there wouldn’t be vacations like this if we weren’t paying for them, so they are stacking them up now because they would never pay for them with their own dime. Has anyone asked Gibbs how much this trip is going to cost John Taxpayer? The cost of Secret Service, AF2 and other security measures? At least Bush went home to his ranch. In Laura Bush’s book, she stated that her daughters flew commercial and that she and the president paid for that. She also mentioned she paid for her hair stylist and all the dresses she wore.
Would Mo pay for she and her daughter plus 50-60 others to go to Spain if we, the tax payers, wouldn’t be footing the bills?? Michelle fancies herself to be royalty. She is NOT. She can quite aptly be compared to the Pigs in Orwell’s Animal Farm, who reserved the best for themselves while enslaving the others. She is shameless, greedy and hideous.
Did you forget the sarcasm tag?
Meanwhile food stamp hand outs are at record highs.....:(:(:(:(
How much longer are we going let these people trash our economy, our way of life and our government?
Is ANYONE OUT THERE LISTENING???????
Why aren’t these people’s approval in SINGLE DIGITS??????????
Are Americans really that stupid and ignorant? It seems that yes, we are. BECAUSE WE KEEP VOTING FOR IT!!!!
I hope someone does a comparison between what previous presidents and their wives spent on vacations and entertainment and mr and mrs 0thugga. Using inflation adjust dollar amounts of course.
Try doing a photo montage showing her “transformations”. She doesn’t look at all how she used to even a year ago, what to speak of a few years ago.
She used to look at least human. She is now a revolting characture of a human.
Hmmmm. You may have a point. I don’t think her figure last year could have held up the strapless side of that blouse.
You are forgetting the Clintons: entourage of 800 to Africa, 1000 to China, collecting personal gifts from Heads of State everywhere. Vacationing on Martha's Vinyard on the dime of the Hollywood crowd (at least it wasn't OUR dime). How about Hillary's gold toilet that she had made to drag around China? How about the marital "wish list" that she distributed to all their friends and supporters that included furniture, silverware, crystal, china, cashmere pashimas, jewelry, golf clubs, etc.? Does anyone remember the Bush family -- pere and fils -- doing anything like that? Does anyone remember George and Laura vacationing anywhere besides Maine or Texas -- their own property? Same with Ronald Reagan, Nixon, Ford, and even Jimmy Carter. None of them traipsed all over the world dragging huge entourages to do "business".
Does she NOT have ANY friends? Friends would tell her she looks like a linebacker in a sloppily-knotted tablecloth. Sheesh! If you have the shoulders of a weight lifter, you should reconsider your “line” in various necklines. This is NOT the style for her. . .
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Re 82: Great photoshops. I think I like the one with MO’s head on Shaq’s body best, but its a tough call.
She reminds me of one of those celebrities who’s been married eight times and has affairs with bullfighters. She’s cheap and tawdry-looking. And to think—the media used to have strokes over the cost of Nancy Reagan’s White House china. This thing puts Nancy in the shade.
Is she wearing a bustle in your picture or is that just her oversized butt?
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