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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Aint gonna work.
The list, ping
Yeah....that’s the ticket!!!!
I don’t care if she went to Spain. I just don’t think 100,000 a day of taxpayer money was worth comforting her friend that we never saw on the beach, with the King, in the stores, etc..
Wouldn’t have been less to fly grieving friend to Washington? What does this have to do with the other 30-40 friends who came along for the party?
Somehow the pictures I saw seemed to miss the black armbands on all of the mourners.
Tell me another.
A bit late for this. El Rushbo was saying the first one they tried to run up the flagpole was that daughter Sasha wanted to see the rain in Spain.
Tsk, tsk. It looks like the Old Media was unable to keep us in the dark.
Actually this excuse makes Michelle seem even MORE out of touch!! VIVA the QUEEN MICHELLE!!
Give me a break. She took a 40 person entourage and rented 60 rooms in the most lavish mediteranian resort in Spain. How can they announce spin like this with a straight face.
Why not go to Camp David? Why the massive expensive glitzy tax payer funded junket?
From the AP
“Gynecologist’s father’s hardest hit”
Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie.
I’m just saying they are not telling the truth......
Nice of that quack to plan a vacation using an Air Force VIP 757.
My Gold Fish Died!
My bags are packed.
Where are we going?
Yet more BULLSH*T from the KINGS and QUEENS of BULLSH*T in the far-left demonRAT party.
There are lies and there are damn lies......this would be a good example of damn lies...
The funny thing is EVERONE sees right through them as though they were made of glass.
Sure isn’t. She and her group still spent taxpayers’ money for something she could have done in this country if she just had to do something for that friend. She could have invited her to go away for just the two of them. That is what I would have done if I wanted to help someone.
A trip of that magnitude had to be planned well in advance.
After the outrage - they backpedaled the calendar for that funeral excuse!!
Holly Bailey, a former White House Correspondent for Newsweek, joined Yahoo news
Food for thought. If there is truth to this is he so power hungry that he would be willing to throw Dems facing reelection to the wolves just so he can get a second term?
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