Posted on 09/04/2010 5:39:31 AM PDT by markomalley
The New York Times reports First Lady Michelle Obama's aides cautioned against her going on the early August European vacation in which she stayed at a 5-star resort in Spain and mingled with royalty. The lavish trip, the aides reportedly argued, could result in harm to her image. "Aides say privately that they warned her there would be a cost to the trip, but she overruled them, insisting it was a rare chance to spend time with Sasha and with a friend whose father had died," the paper reports. "But the intensity of the uproar -- including accusations that she was a 'modern-day Marie Antoinette' -- caught the White House and Mrs. Obama off guard."
The trip resulted in the first extended negative press of the First Lady's time in the White House. Critics questioned why Mrs. Obama chose to go to a glitzy, high-priced resort at a time when unemployment is high and many Americans are suffering economically.
A Wall Street Journal/NBC poll taken during the trip showed that just 50 percent of those surveyed had a positive impression of Mrs. Obama -- down from 64 percent in April 2009 and 55 percent earlier this year. Nevertheless, she remains marginally more popular than her husband, whose personal approval rating was at 46 percent in the Journal poll.
Despite the first lady's falling approval numbers, the White House maintains that Mrs. Obama is in high demand among Democrats who want her to campaign for them. When asked by CNN shortly after the Spain vacation whether the first lady would be "out on the campaign trail between now and November 2," top Obama aide David Axelrod answered, "I'm sure that she will."
Now, in the Times report, Axelrod is a little more measured. "I think she’s happy to go out and support folks who have stood up for things that she thinks are important," Axelrod told the paper. "But I don't think she's eager to jump into the fray in a very political way, and I don't think she will."
Why should the queen care what the small people think?
The Queen is NOT amused!
There’s another thread today about Obama’s tin ear. It seems to run in the family. Funny, for people who put so much stock in community organizing...
She had to meet with arab arms dealers, that multi-billion dollar arms deal that happened the day she got back.
Shame on you for posting such a racist photo.
That’s a great photo, for two reasons if not more...
So Michelle shows herself to be another self-adsorbed liberal that thinks the little people will love and adore her no matter how she acts.
Lets put this under the category of “Not surprised”
M’Antoinette 0Bama says “Let them eat cake.”
And didn’t she visit a mosque as well? I didn’t read whether she visited a church or not, though. I hate these people.
Mrs. Obama...that’s how I think of her, because she’s not 1st Lady material
:-)
Is that 2 MGBs following a dump truck?
We are passing Labor Day, well into the election cycle, and Michelle “I hate America” Obama has not yet been seen out on the campaign trail for Democrat candidates. I ardently hope she gets out there on the hustings to give her all for the “Destroy America” Democrat Party. This arrogant, elitist woman, in the midst of a nasty recession brought on by her husband, POTUS Barack Hussein Obama and his Democrat Party (The Democrats have ruled Congress for the past four years)had the nerve to travel to Spain, spending millions of taxpayer dollars in a foreign country, while millions of Americans of all stripes at home in the USA remain unemployed. Any American voter that votes as Michelle Obama advises needs to have their head, heart and mind examined for they are either drinking too much Kool-Aid, smoking too much reefer, or snorting too much crack!!!!
apparently, they say she has great arms, though. lol.
She is one of 44 First Ladies of the United States. She figures she is due. Afterall other first ladies traveled. She even mentioned that Nancy traveled overseas. I swear that the Obama’s have this thing about the Reagan’s and the Kennedy’s. I think they secretly want to be cloned as both of them combined or something.
"..heavyweights traffic stay right"
A blatantly racist article.
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