[2ndDivisionVet]

What office does Mrs. Obama hold, pray tell? And if she's just a "mom" and a "private citizen" (as Mr. Gibbs has said) why is she telling our schools which food to serve our kids and meeting with heads of state? Do they really think they can have it both ways? Also, I'm glad the DNC Chair was stupid enough to take the bait on this issue, as it'll tie the Democrats even closer to the terrible optics of this trip. Seems both parties are run by morons!

[truthandlife]

The Democrats are truly desperate. This was a PR disaster for the Democrats and Obama.

[greatgranny]

I really really hate these people. I can't go on vacations, or out to dinner or anything else. We live paycheck to paycheck. On our 53rd wedding anniversary, we stayed home and ate DOLLAR Dinners. That was all we could afford. These A@@ holes get to run around the world, golf etc on my dollar (and everybody else).

These were to be our golden years. Travel, do things. Ha. We don't do anything while that bunch of @#$%^&*() run around the world.

She wasn't elected to ANY OFFICE. What a complete looser. No respect for the position she is in. She and her kids dress like tramps.

[imskylark]

Well, if she is a private citizen, she can pay for her own dang trip.

[dfwgator]

It’s not even the fact it’s on the taxpayer’s dime that concerns me, especially given the fact that the Obamas do have young children, which we haven’t had since JFK.

But in the middle of this recession, and especially after all their talk about people should vacation in the Gulf of Mexico, what do they do, they go out of the country. Heck at least if they go to Martha’s Vineyard, that helps out the US economy. There aren’t any good places here to vacation?

[maggief]

“I think it’s wrong to talk about the first lady’s family vacation as a politician,” Kaine said on NBC’s “Today Show.” “She’s a mom.”

Then stay home and bake some cookies.

[DManA]

Can you beat those dirty republicans attacking MOTHERHOOD?

"She's a mom." "When you're in office you don't give up being a mom and a family member, too,"

[SunkenCiv]

In the 1990s, there were articles about how elementary school students supposedly wrote letters urging Slick to "give Hillary more power".

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