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 can’t stand the sight of that EVIL POS. What a repulsvie excuse for the lowest scum imaginable.
I agree that there are many who would love to see him on the throne forever, and would go to great lengths to achieve it; there are simply not nearly enough of them. What states can he carry? Where are people any better off, or even as well off, as when this idiot won election? At the present rate, there will not be a single state that isn’t in play for the GOP, while the Dems would have to write off whole regions (and the Senate & House races in them). Nobody in his “coalition”, with the exception maybe of public schoolteachers, is any better off: government workers/emergency responders are being laid off in droves, pacifists have to come to terms with his surge in Afghanistan and the fact that Gitmo will never close, homosexual deviants still have no “marriage” in the eyes of the federal government, young people are among the hardest-hit by the bad job market (especially recent grads), retirees have seen their MediCare cut into by ObamaCare, and ethnic minorities are still at the bottom of the ladder while racial tension has certainly not disappeared. Where would any enthusiasm come from?
People need jobs, and some sense of security/continuity; Obama clearly has nothing to offer on either front, preferring to talk in vague generalities about nonsense.
PERFECT image of the Golfer-in-Chief! (#28)
It will be fun to laugh at the MSM as they try to justify this. YOu would think he would stay at home to provide even moral support to one of our best allies.
Yes the MSM will look quite lame supporting this. And the stinking pubs better be howling about it!
It is never about anyone or anything except obama.
This kind of evil will be stopped. Don't know how, don't know when, but obama will be removed from the White House.
Let him wallow in his ice cream, doowop get-togethers, far flung trips, elaborate parties at the White House, and let Michelle continue to buy her $1,000. tote bags, etc., while this country and the world suffers in turmoil.
He will be stopped. Mussolini, Hitler, and others of their ilk met their fate. obama will meet his.
There really hasn’t been anything urgent enough to require his attention since that professor got arrested for breaking into his house in Cambridge.
Translation: The king brings his scepter wherever he goes.
[[Just a cheery announcement that our gas prices are on the way down—they were down “one cent” today.]]
Ha haha haha haha- We beat you- we went down 2 whole cents today- haahhaa haahhaa haahaahaa... oh wait- never mind- I STILL CAN NOT afford Gasoline!!!
You should send this to every news outlet you can.
Obama is imperial and tone deaf and clueless.
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likely from tens of billions of the unspent stimulus money stolen from the taxpayers. That can buy a lot of votes. His staff is scheming 24/7 on how to "steal" the 2012 election. They can't win without fraud.
People need jobs, and some sense of security/continuity; Obama clearly has nothing to offer on either front, preferring to talk in vague generalities about nonsense.
In a fair election, any competent conservative would easily crush Obama. Viewing his chances through the prism of normal election parameters he would have zero chance of winning. However, we will have to battle the fraud, the slavish MSM, and the contemptible RINOs who will battle us all the way to the end. The MSM will be in ultra smear mode to help the Marxist chances. They will mount a coordinated, slimy media attack of the likes we never have seen before in our history.
[[What was portrayed as “coolness” during the campaign has proven to be a weird detachment]]
Wierd Detachment? It’s SICK detachment- not wierd detachment! and what’s even sicker is that he still has people supporting him even after they’ve lost hteir jobs, paying more for energy, beingh taxed to death- facing unprecedented socialism which will break them financially even furthger- and even though He looks america in the face and point blank tells us to shut the hell up and ‘just let him ‘do his job’!!!
It’s unbeleivably SICK that ANYONE would still support this lazy playboy- He and the dems are taking everythign they can from us while they can because they know their time is short in office (eventually, America wake out of their sick idolizing stupor and realize he and the left are the biggest crooks on the planet and don’t give a crap about the little folks like they claim to!!!
SICK sick sick- that;s the only word for it all
The DO NOTHING president. What a surprise considering the only thing he has ever done in his life is community organizing with other people’s money.
He has absolutely no economic background, no foreign policy experience, no leadership ability, no common sense, nothing that I can see to qualify someone to be president, yet here we are America!
Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter are sounding pretty reasonable at this point.
[[Once again, Barry alienates another great U.S. ally by frittering around on yet another vacation while Japan requires our full attention and help.]]
He’as too busy coddling... ooops, I mean ‘dialoguing’ qwith terrorist nations to notice them ore pacifist nations that are our allies-
[[From what I’ve seen of Obozo so far, I’d say that all he ever had in mind were to make his and his family’s life more comfortable, while making the rest of the country suffer.]]
Bingo! UI’ve said that from even bofore he got elected- knowing fukll well that once he got in, it was goign to be nothing but a nonstop party for the narcisist- the ONLY stress he feels is laaying awakwe at night worrying that someone might not love him as much as he loves hismelf- Narcists fret soemthign aweful when they think someone might not love them unconditionally- The arrogance of this fella is UNBELIEVABLE! He spitsi n our faces, and thinks we should thank him and coddle his tender sensibilities for it?
I agree with what they would like to do/like to project; NOBODY believes that anything is any better regardless of what the TV says. They would have to get so many people back to work (at some comparable salary to what they were earning 3-5 years ago - which NOBODY I know who has lost a job and taken another is currently earning), and convince them there is some permanence to it; this would have been difficult given 4 years, and they’re down to 1 1/2. Who doesn’t know somebody unemployed for over a year? Who doesn’t know somebody who has lost a home? Who isn’t afraid of losing their own home and/or job? Anybody who promises a semblance of what we used to have will destroy him (either in a Dem primary or the general election); he is “the Devil we know”, and he has proven he can’t provide that. He has generated his opponents’ ads for them, with comments about what temperature we should keep our homes at and how we should sacrifice; his own lack of tact is his undoing.
[[obama isn’t disconnected...he just doesn’t give a damn. The socialist/marxist/communist/revolutionary is doing what he wants, when he wants.
It is never about anyone or anything except obama.]]
PRECISELY- I would just add that he does infact care aboutr expanding government control over we the people thouigh- but he’s content letting the lesser dogs of congress do his dirty work for him on this front- infact, He seems to be quite averse to workign on any issues himself really- too busy looking out for number one apparently
The Liberals always accused President Bush for taking all those vacations, but most of the time he spent away from D.C. was in Crawford, dragging his entire staff and Cabinet with him. It was indeed the Western Whitehouse, not a rented Mansion like the One always stays in.
The Media hated their time in Texas, wishing they were back in Nantucket hobnobbing with the Clintons and all their Liberal friends.
No doubt he will be demanding the Christ of the Andes be removed, immediately or covered so as not to offend his daughters.
The irritating thing is, once they are out of office, the Bambi family will live high on the hog forever - they will continue to have influence due to their perceived power, whether they’re lobbyists or not, and their girls will be rewarded with the appropriate jobs, like Chelsea Clinton, along with either connected high-brow spouses or pretty boys with political aspirations.
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