Michelle Obama heads to Africa, stirs criticism

The Ticket ^ | June 20, 2011 | Rachel Rose Hartman

[bgill]

...the trip is already provoking disappointment from Africa advocates who argue that President Obama, whose father was Kenyan, hasn't devoted enough time to the continent since winning the presidency. Mwiza Munthali, public outreach director of TransAfrica Forum, argues that U.S. officials "are not seeing Africa as a big priority. There has been some ambivalence." The president has made just one trip to sub-Saharan Africa since his Jan. 2009 inauguration and has chosen not to accompany his wife on her journey.

This isn't the first time the First Lady has come under fire for travel plans. Below we review some of Michelle Obama's past controversies around trips:

• The glitzy Spanish getaway...

• The greeting leaders with creative diplomacy in England, Indonesia...

• The visit to immigration-complicated Mexico...

[bgill]

I'm spending this much of the taxpayers' dollars for my friends and family to vacation around the world.

[Recon Dad]

Michelle.....continuing to improve the economy. /sarc

(no need to say where she’s improving the economy)

[hal ogen]

Moocher...Grifter Supreme.

[Venturer]

Another of the problems caused by having a President who isn’t a Natural born American. His father was Afrian, therefore Africa thinks we owe them some sort of debt. Obama’s father swung across Hawaii on his drunken breeding world tour of 3 wives many girlfriends, and how many children drinking and hosing down whatever he could find, now we supposedly owe Africa something.

It is apparent that Africa did not invite Michelle and her entourage, she just decided it was time she make another personal tour “for the children”.

Obama hit the lotto when he was elected and he spends like any other Lotto winner, only it isn’t his money they are spending , it is ours.

[Recon Dad]

She should travel to Greece and solve their debt problems.

[sergeantdave]

“the trip is already provoking disappointment from Africa advocates who argue that President Obama...hasn’t devoted enough time to the continent...”

Well, if you people are missing a taste of a commie Mau-Mau dictatorship or Civil War Reconstruction, ca 1868, stop in and take a tour of the United States.

[South Dakota]

Anyone taking bets that the 0bamao’s surpass Clinton in travel expenditures for his first 4years in office?

[Hoodat]

Obama’s approval ratings have dipped so low that people from Kenya are now claiming he was born in the US.

[Condor51]

Mwiza Munthali, public outreach director of TransAfrica Forum, argues that U.S. officials "are not seeing Africa as a big priority. There has been some ambivalence."

He's right. We're not paying Africa enough 'attention'.

So IMHO we should go in there with every Oil Rig and piece of Earth Moving Equipment we have. Then drain it of every drop of oil, rape the Land of all its Gold, Platinum and Uranium, and grab every Diamond we can lay our hands on. With our 'assets' protected by the very experienced company, Blackwater₍₁₎.

Then tell them to eat dirt and skedaddle out pdq.

(1) I just regret that Executive Outcomes isn't in business any longer. Those boys were goooood!

[ETL]

"The First Lady slides into her spot alongside other G-20 spouses
before a group photo at the Royal Opera House [London, 2009]."

Source: Time Magazine (Time.com):

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1889051_1865162,00.html
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Michelle Obama at the 2009 G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh, USA

Source:
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/mitchelles-gifts-to-g20-spouses-porcelain/521488/
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[bgill]

Wookies have such style and grace.

[ladyvet]

Anyone know the size of the queens court that will be attending to her on this trip we're paying for?

[Doc Savage]

Hey, what happened to the ‘BIRTH PLACE OF CIVILIZATION’ on it’s way to 2011???????????? Just wish there was a toilet big enough to flush the entire continent down the drain! This is POS is the perfect symbol for this 3rd world outhouse!

[Doc Savage]

Especially when you consider that he WASN’T Barry’s REAL father, only a stand-in who was paid. This guy’s entire life is a fabrication, lie, and deception! And now his fat-assed wife plows money we don’t even have on some worthless visit! Blacula! Draining our country dry!

[Venturer]

I love it.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Probably looking to help out blacks in Sudan.

[762X51]

Hey, what happened to the ‘BIRTH PLACE OF CIVILIZATION’ on it’s way to 2011?

That seems to be the $64K question doesn't it. How someplace can supposedly spawn all of humanity yet remain itself unchanged while the rest of humanity learns to write, form metal, build civilizations and go to the moon, is frankly quite baffling. Either that or it's not true.