Posted on 03/15/2011 8:31:41 PM PDT by kristinn
While American ally Japan faces the world's worst nuclear power disaster in decades on top of a 9.0 earthquake and apocalyptic tsunami, the Middle East is in flames and the U.S. facing bankruptcy, Barack Obama is trying yet again to take his daughters on a taxpayer funded Spring Break trip overseas.
Last year, Obama scheduled a family trip with no diplomatic importance to Indonesia and Australia timed to his daughters' Spring Break from the elite Sidwell Friends School. That trip was cancelled at the last minute, which still cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in squandered advance planning expenditures, when Obama was pressured by Democrats to stay in Washington for the healthcare bill debate in Congress and then cancel the trip again to deal with the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico months later.
This year, Obama is jetting off to Rio de Janeiro with the wife and kids on another trip timed to the girls' Spring Break at Sidwell Friends which begins on Friday, March 18. The Obamas head for Brazil that evening according to the White House (via The Chicago Sun-Times:
"On Friday evening, the First Family will travel to Brasilia, Brazil."
Obama will spend Saturday in Brasilia.
The Miami Herald reports on Obama's schedule in Rio on Sunday:
Next Sunday the president will be in Rio de Janeiro where he is expected to visit Corcovado, the peak where the landmark statue of Christ the Redeemer towers over the city, and a favela – one of the many makeshift settlements that sprawl across the hills of Rio. The military and police have recently been engaged in a pacification program to retake the favelas from drug gangs and other criminals.
Obama is expected to devote part of the day to family time but it is possible he will make a major address in Rio."
The Obamas will then head to Chile and finish the trip with an overnight stay in El Salvador.
The Obamas are scheduled to return to the White House on the 23rd. Sidwell Friends Spring Break ends on the 28th.
The Obama administration faced down questions today about the appropriateness of the trip given the global situation. Spokesman Jay Carney told reporters, "He is the president of the United States. There are major issues all the time that a president has to contend with, which is one of the reasons why he has such a substantial support framework around him when he travels."
I thought they just got back from skiing,..after a trip to Spain, after a trip to somewhere else.
They spend more time out of the country on vacation than in it. It’s almost as if he isn’t a US citizen.
Worst leader of America ever.
Barak in Rio -- PARTY TIME!
Has Hussein lost his marbles ?
Has Hussein lost his marbles ?
What was portrayed as “coolness” during the campaign has proven to be a weird detachment from what is going on. The statements he reads from his teleprompter are delivered with a complete lack of any presence in the moment. He could be reading a recipe. Then he goes off on another vacation....Very strange indeed!
A picture is worth a thousand commentaries...
Very funny!
Makes you think that America should just not accept Barry anymore as a leader...does “Just say No” have any weight here?
Why doesn’t he take the kids to Disneyland...in Tokyo.
At times like this, I wish we could have a “No Confidence” vote as they do in Parliamentary systems.
This little vacation should give us some good vacation gal pics.
Maybe nobama’s going to see what happened to the $8,000,000,000 of tax payer money that he gave to Brazil several months ago for their off-shore drilling development. Maybe they’ll privately give some of it back to him for his re-coronation.
This guy is so unfit for office! But then what did we expect from democrats that couldn’t think their way out of a paper sack?
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