Posted on 08/10/2010 11:49:04 AM PDT by Nachum
First Lady Michelle Obama took a lot of grief for her decision to vacation in Spain last week, a glitzy getaway that prompted one New York Daily News columnist to liken her to Marie Antoinette. But now we're learning more about the trip, which, despite the furor over its alleged excess, seems to have been launched with good intentions.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times' Lynn Sweet, the first lady made the trip because she wanted to spend time with her best friend, Chicago physician Anita Blanchard, who lost her father this summer. Blanchard (who is married to President Obama's best friend, Marty Nesbitt) planned a Spanish vacation with her daughter and invited the first lady and her daughters to come along. Michelle, who missed Blanchard's father's funeral in July, agreed and brought along her 9-year-old daughter, Sasha. The first couple's older daughter, Malia, is away at camp.
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apparently it’s the woman behind her.
Will the Zeroes be celebrating Ramalamadingdong here?........We have a Ramada on the beach..............
I bet they don’t stay in a Holiday Inn Express.................
Trying to find obituary for Blanchard’s father. Anyone know his name??
Anita Blanchard is a doctor at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where Mrs. Obama collected her hefty p.r. salary and engineered the patient-dumping scheme. Her hubby Marty Nesbitt chairs the Chicago Housing Authority, served on the Chicago failed Olympics bid, was a top fundraising chairman for Obama, and worked as an executive at one of subprime queen Penny Pritzkers companies.
“. . . he would be willing to throw Dems facing reelection to the wolves just so he can get a second term?”
It’s a good strategy for the left. They have won the structural battle in so many ways in the past two years. It’s not clear to me that the US will ever recover from it—the death spiral is now institutionalized and fully funded by Congress.
But if he holds on and gets reelected (1) He vetoes everything congress does to reverse the damage of the past two years; and (2) He gets to appoint one or two new supreme court justices. At that point, the supreme court would have a five vote majority that is much more radical than any US court in history (3) He gets to continue to ignore enforcement of our open borders and another half a generation of socialist anchor babies are born to elect zero’s totalitarian successors.
By the end of that six years, the changes are irreversible without violent revolution—too many citizens have been converted to welfare dependents and too many businesses now make money at the newly structured and expanded government trough. Both groups will fight any changes with much money and time. At that point, America is a free country in name only.
Frankly, we need to inflict humiliating defeats on zero and his socialist fellow travelers in 2010 AND in 2012. Otherwise, it’s game over.
Then we have to fight to make the Republicans do what they promised.
Title of post should extend to say with your money while you grieve for your friends, your family, and the money she stole..
I can not tell which one is the supposedly grieving one. They all appear to be having a great time on our money.
Couldn’t she have rented 60 rooms in Pensacola?
No, they are convinced that we are past the tipping point and that there is nothing the American public can do about it anymore.
-PJ
(Hint: the one without the mic clipped to the collar.)
-PJ
-PJ
As my father used to say: Horsepuckey.
“No, they are convinced that we are past the tipping point and that there is nothing the American public can do about it anymore.”
The White House and Dems are in big, big trouble...and not only by those who oppose them, but also with their rabid left wing nuts. Seems that Rob’t Gibbs criticized the Dem base in an interview and the lefties are bouncing off the walls over at democraticunderground.com.
I go over there from time to time to remind myself how foul and twisted those folks can be. But, if you are offended by F-bombs, stay away from their web site.
And besides, her dog died. And her bedroom was painted the wrong color. And the cleaners lost her favorite dress. Keep working at it YAHOO. You and the rest of the far left. Maybe you’ll hit on something which morons will actually believe!!! After all, Hussein get elected didn’t he? So you’ve got one hell of a lot of morons to pitch to!!
-PJ
Bo who?...........
LOL!
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