Posted on 03/19/2012 9:27:17 AM PDT by STARWISE
The elder daughter of US President Barack Obama is spending her springbreak in the historic Mexican city of Oaxaca in the company of 12 friends, a state police official said.
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"We are here to block access to the hotel by other people and escort the vehicles that are carrying the visitors to tourism sites," the police official told AFP under the condition of anonymity.
Malia Obama and her friend are guarded by 25 US Secret Service agents as well as Mexican police, the official noted.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Granted, having a presidential kid along changes the chemistry of the trip. For a place like Sidwell, it’s a mixed bag. There is the prestige factor to consider — not that Sidwell needs reinforcement there — but there are tangible burdens as well. Educating presidential kids is a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it.
I don’t know anything about Sidwell “spin.” All I know is what I was told by the parents as they were explaining why their daughter had to miss a pre-season tournamant. They are expecting the trip to be a mix of work and sightseeing. Which seems appropriate to me, as the father of an eighth grader myself.
“”For eighth grade girls, getting a closeup of third world poverty will be an eye opener.””
Yes, our homeless are so much better off than their poor.
All she needed to do was visit our friendly homeless camps in the woods in our area.
She could have gone to Detroit.
I don't recall Chelsea having gone on a trip like this when she was in Sidwell, but it could have happened. I do remember as she got older, especially while at Stanford, that she seemed to miss an awful lot of school because of trips she took with her mother and/or father. We could never understand how she could take off so much time from her studies and keep her grades up.
Nothing seems to have changed with Chelsea, only now everything seems to come before real work.
The comments on the Yahoo page are in line with the comments here..
They should have sent these kids to clean up after the Occupy Wall Streeters if they wanted them to do charitable work :-)
You are making unwarranted assumptions. 0 is breaking, stretching and bending the laws left and right, but we’re supposed to assume that the First Mooches are not grifting here as well?
AMEN! I wouldn't trust the whole damn bunch of them if they told me the sky was blue.
Okay, what’s this going to cost us?
We’re paying for a kid to entertain her daddy’s bundler friends kids in Mexico. What’s wrong with her huge back yard?
"Hmmmm...the natives are restless about my taking control and those abortion brain experiments."
" And wait'll they find out Michelle is taking another vacation."
"No problem. I'll ease up on the suckers. Do my "Harmless" act."
" Maybe go into my Al Green imitation."
Hunh...The UK Telegraph pulled the story that had been linked on Drudge.
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It’s screen captured though.
Universal criticism——figures.
When can I expect my kid and all his friends’ thank you card for giving up any dream of a vaction so these grifters can party on our last dime?
That's funny, because the comments below the original page I accessed are still in place. Dumb asses.
Did a search and there are many other links on this. Here's one from Fox as reported in The Telegraph:
Seems the comments page on this link has been closed. Guess they didn't like the responses.
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