Michelle Obama and family take another taxpayer-funded trip

The first lady, her mother, her two kids, plus numerous White House aides and security personnel are going to tour China this month, but White House officials are refusing to say how much the taxpayers will pay for the trip.

However, they did say it would be a thrill for everyone on the trip, including for Michelle Obama’s top aide, Tina Tchen.

“It is a real honor and privilege, and I think we are all, here in the first lady’s office, quite excited about the upcoming trip,” said Chen, just after she declared that “my parents emigrated from China in the late ’40s, so this … will be my fourth time returning to China but the first time, obviously, in a role such as this.”

“The first lady has been looking for an opportunity to go to China,” said Ben Rhodes, the White House’s deputy national security advisor for strategic communications.

“We will meet [the Chinese president's wife] Madame Peng on our first day … [and] she will accompany the first lady and her family to the Forbidden City and will take the first lady through the Forbidden City before they’re able to join each other for a meal, a private meal and a private performance later on in the evening,” said Tchen. ”We’re looking forward to it.”

Both officials declined to reveal the cost of flying the family to and from China.

“As a general matter, we don’t disclose the details associated with the security of either the president or the first lady,” Rhodes said.

“We are not discussing or disclosing information regarding the details of the logistics of the trip,” said Tchen.

The first lady and the family will travel to China from March 19 to March 26. She will visit the capital Beijing and two northwest cities, Xi’an and Chengdu.

She’ll be accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Marian Robinson, and daughters, Malia and Sasha Obama.

The first lady has taken her mother on several previous trips, including to Spain.

The 2010 trip to Spain cost taxpayers at least $487,000. A 2011 trip to southern Africa cost at least $424,142. The cost estimates were uncovered by Judicial Watch, a D.C.-based watchdog group.

“I will say this as a Chinese-American,” said Tchen, that Chinese people will appreciate “three generations of family traveling together … and the bonds that the Obama family have with one another across generations.”

“I think that, frankly, the most powerful message we can deliver [to Chinese people] is one of the examples of not just the first lady’s life story but of America and our values,” Rhodes said. “That alone I think speaks to things like respect for human rights that are interwoven into the DNA of the United States of America.”

“The first lady’s story itself sends a powerful message about the ability of someone of a disadvantaged economic background from a minority group to ascend to the position that she did in private life and now as first lady,” Rhodes said.

Michelle Obama grew in a humble family that was entwined with the Democratic political machine in Chicago. Her father worked as a Democratic political activist in Chicago, she earned money by babysitting for Jesse Jackson, and she eventually married an up-and-coming political activist — Barack Obama — in a church whose pastor was an influential player in local politics, Jeremiah Wright.

The first lady’s “focus on people-to-people relations, her focus on education and youth empowerment is one that we believe will resonate in China,” Rhodes claimed.

Roughly 200,000 Chinese people are enrolled at U.S. education centers, while roughly 20,000 Americans are studying in China.

“In terms of the first lady’s visit, first of all, as a general matter, the first lady has been a huge asset” on foreign trips, said Rhodes.

“Everywhere that she has traveled independently, she has had a tremendous reception and has been able to connect with audiences from Asia to Africa to the Americas,” he said.

However, Rhodes added, there are real political disagreements between China and the United States.

“We’ve been very clear that our relationship with China is one in which we welcome the peaceful rise of China, which is in the service of global stability and greater prosperity for our people and the people of China and the people of the region. At the same time, we’re very clear when we have differences with China on a host of issues, so it’s a relationship that allows for both a constructive cooperation, and candor when we disagree.

I’m beginning to think Moochelle is the bagman for the adminstration with as many “vacations” she takes....Picking up illegal cash for their pet cause....Themselves....

THANKS TO FREEPER GOPJ WHO REMINDED US about the Chinese guy referencing the equally greedy Clintons - "gotta put coins in... cha ching...."(to get them to do something)

NOV 2013 REPORT--- The Hill reported Bill Clinton wants a female president
[while panhandling in China for the "Clinton Foundation"]
The Hill | November 18, 2013 | Mario Trujillo / Posted by Cincinatus' Wife

Former President Bill Clinton said he hopes there will be a female president in his lifetime — Clinton told a Chinese audience that a female president would be good for the United States. Hillary Clinton has said she will not start to seriously consider a run until sometime next year, but a number of Democratic lawmakers have preemptively endorsed her or encouraged her to run.

Clinton was in China to meet with the country’s president and promote the "Clinton Foundation."

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So who is indebted to the Clintons for presidential crony capitalism? Who are the large contributors to the Clintons' three "tax-exempt foundations," and are, in effect, financing Hillary's ambitions.

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Billy Boy Clinton was grinning like a simpering fool at the annual meeting of the "Clinton Global Initiative Foundation"....even Boobomba was there hugging Billy like they were old pals.....all in the wake of the bombshell news that:

<><> the tax-exempt Clinton Global Initiative Foundation uses shady financing;

<><> the tax-exempt "Clinton Global Initiative" had employed an active Muslim Brotherhood terrorist (now in an Egyptian jail).

The Clintons' shady proclivities are unveiled in the recent NYT expose ..... including orruption, greed, entitlement, nepotism, cronyism. The Clintons didn't have a pot to *** in in Arkansas---never even had a home to call their own. Now they're multi millionaires.......the connivers have perfected the scam WRT gaming the govt system for themselves.

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There needs to be a thorough going-over of the three Clinton Foundations. We need to know who pays/funds the Clinton's lifestyle/political ambitions---- especially b/c Hillary is running for prez. It is important to know to whom the Clinton's are truly indebted.

NY POST EXCERPT ----The Bill Clinton Foundation has spent more than $50 million on travel expenses — Bill Clinton’s foundation has spent more than $50 million on travel expenses since 2003, an analysis of the nonprofit’s tax forms reveal.....includes $4.2 million in 2011 for the William J. Clinton Foundation (to which Hillary and Chelsea are attached); $730,000 for the Clinton Global Health Initiative; and $7.2 million for the Clinton Health Action Initiative (CHAI).

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How many ways can the conniving Clintons use their name to launder money?

<><> The William J. Clinton Family Foundation......

<><> the Clinton Global Health Initiative......

<><> the Clinton Health Action Initiative (CHAI).

More importantly, what is the connection between Corzine's MF Global, Teneo (which paid Bill Clinton $50,000 per month), The Clintons multiple tax-exempt foundations, and Muslim money-Laundering?

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