Posted on 07/25/2010 6:31:18 PM PDT by kristinn
US President Barack Obama and his family are to take a holiday early August in the posh southern Spanish resort city of Marbella, Spanish newspaper El Pais and El Mundo reported Sunday on their websites.
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The president would stay at Marbella, a prime holiday destination favoured by the rich and famous, from August 4 to 8, according to El Mundo.
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Exactly!
You know, all that top-down control is a tiring thing. I mean, he wants to tell us what to drive, how to bank, control our healthcare, set salaries, manage our energy industry, screw up international relations...basically control most of our lives. That’s a lot of work for an elitist/fascist/socialist. I guess while he’s taking a break we should all take five too, since we have no-one to tell us what to do... :-/
The Spaniards need to carry around a poopper scouper when POSOTUS hits town.
He’s had more holidays than a $2.00 paint job.
I wish someone would start a web site to track these. I am sure they could have some fun!!
Look here...These just since the oil spill
I wonder . . .
is he vacationing because he senses or someone has warned him . . .
that perhaps after he succeeds in causing untold chaos and collapse . . . and the folks that put him in power are ready to make him the scapegoat by . . . uhhh
withdrawing their mandate on his services very dramatically
in DC
by some help maybe from the Jihadi’s or Iran or . . . whomever . . .
Maybe he’s trying to stay uhhh functional longer by staying out of DC as much as he can . . . A silly effort . . . they’ll take him out of public life regardless of where he is any time they wish.
A weekend at camp david (for a 12-hour war strategy meeting)is only a vacation if the pres is a republican.
A one-hour visit to a “stimulus” construction project in Ohio (where the workers are forced to take an unpiad day off) is consideered a work day.
The problem her is the media. We conservatives MUST TAKE BACK THE MEDIA! Hell,the communists knew it. Alinsky knows it, 0bama and all his ilk know it, why don’t we conservatives know this? Jeezus, people, look at the success of AM talk radio! There is a viable market! We need to rule it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One can dream, no? :)
How much carbon output will this cause?
Other reports say it’s The Wookie, one daughter and some friends who are going while Obama stays home - well, stays in the US at least.
http://noticias.latino.msn.com/politica/articulos.aspx?cp-documentid=24989197
“White House: Obama’s family will travel to Spain the first week of August
Washington, 25 jul (EFE).- La primera dama de EEUU, Michelle Obama, y una de sus hijas viajarán a España en la primera semana de agosto en una visita privada, informó hoy la Casa Blanca, que precisó que el presidente, Barack Obama, permanecerá en Estados Unidos. Washington, July 25 (EFE) .- The U.S. first lady, Michelle Obama, and one of his daughters will travel to Spain in the first week of August on a private visit, informed the White House, which said the president, Barack Obama will remain in the United States.
Según indicó a Efe un alto funcionario de la Casa Blanca que habló bajo la condición del anonimato, el viaje a Marbella “es una visita privada de madre e hija junto a varios viejos amigos de la familia”. According to Efe said a senior White House official who spoke on condition of anonymity, the trip to Marbella is a private visit of mother and daughter along with several old friends of the family. “
“Tan sólo una de las hijas irá” en el viaje, indicó el alto funcionario. “Only one of the daughters will be” on the trip, said the senior official. Se trata de Sasha, de nueve años, puesto que la mayor, Malia, de doce años, se encuentra en un campamento de verano. This is Sasha, aged nine, since most, Malia, aged twelve, is in a summer camp.
Obama “no se desplazará” en esta ocasión a España, indicó el alto funcionario, sino que permanecerá en Estados Unidos. Obama “not move” this time to Spain, said the senior official, but remains in the United States.
La familia Obama pasará, así, separada el cumpleaños del presidente, que cumplirá 49 el 4 de agosto. The Obama family will thus separate the birthday of the president, who turns 49 on August 4.
En principio, la única parada confirmada de la primera dama y Sasha en España es Marbella, donde medios locales han indicado que se alojarán en un balneario de lujo donde ya se han reservado numerosas habitaciones para las distinguidas huéspedes y sus amigos. In principle, the only confirmed stop the first lady and Sasha Marbella in Spain, where local media have indicated they will stay at a luxury spa where they have already booked several rooms for distinguished guests and friends.
Según ya había anunciado previamente la Casa Blanca, el presidente tiene previsto en la primera semana de agosto desplazarse a una planta de la automovilística Ford, después de que la semana próxima visite también sendas fábricas de Chrysler y General Motors, que junto a Ford son “los tres grandes” de la industria del motor en EEUU. As previously announced, and the White House, the president has laid down in the first week of August to go to a Ford car plant after next week paths also visit factories Chrysler and General Motors, which along with Ford are “ the big three “of the motor industry in the U.S..
Además, la Casa Blanca ha indicado que entre los días 3 y 5 de agosto Obama será el anfitrión de un foro de jóvenes líderes africanos, al que asistirán al menos 120 representantes de 40 países del continente. In addition, the White House has indicated that between 3 and August 5, Obama will host a forum for young African leaders, to be attended by at least 120 representatives from 40 African countries.
Con ese foro, Obama quiere rendir homenaje al 50 aniversario de la independencia de 17 países africanos. With this forum, Obama wants to pay homage to the 50th anniversary of the independence of 17 African countries.
El presidente estadounidense, el primero de raza negra en EEUU, mantiene vínculos directos con África, puesto que su padre era keniano. The U.S. president, the first black U.S. maintains direct links with Africa, since his father was Kenyan.
Los Obama, según la Casa Blanca, tienen previsto desplazarse a Florida el día 14 para pasar el fin de semana en la costa del golfo de México. The Obama in the White House plan to move to Florida the 14th to spend the weekend on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
Entre el 19 y el 29, la familia presidencial pasará sus vacaciones en Martha’s Vineyard, una exclusiva isla frente a las costas de Massachusetts donde ya descansaron una semana en agosto del año pasado. Between 19 and 29, the presidential family will vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, an exclusive island off the coast of Massachusetts where they rested and a week in August last year.
Al presidente estadounidense ya se le esperaba en Madrid en mayo, cuando estaba prevista la cumbre anual UE-EEUU, pero a principios de año la Casa Blanca informó de que Obama no se desplazaría. U.S. President because he was expected in Madrid in May, when he was scheduled annual EU-US summit, but earlier this year the White House reported that Obama does not shift.
Desde entonces, fuentes diplomáticas han barajado la posibilidad de que el presidente estadounidense pudiera desplazarse a España en noviembre, cuando asistirá a la cumbre de la OTAN en Lisboa. Since then, diplomatic sources have been considered the possibility that the U.S. president might move to Spain in November, will attend the NATO summit in Lisbon.
Obama, que en su primer año de mandato viajó al exterior en once ocasiones, ha reducido en 2010 sus salidas al exterior por razones internas, que incluyen la lucha por sacar adelante la reforma sanitaria la pasada primavera y el vertido de petróleo en el golfo de México. Obama, in his first year in office traveled abroad in eleven occasions in 2010 has reduced his trips abroad for domestic reasons, including the struggle to bring forward health care reform last spring and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Las complicaciones internas le obligaron a cancelar en dos ocasiones un viaje ya anunciado a Indonesia y Australia. The internal complications forced him twice to cancel a trip and announced to Indonesia and Australia.
En lo que va de año, el presidente estadounidense sólo se ha desplazado a la República Checa, para firmar un acuerdo de desarme nuclear con Rusia; a Afganistán para visitar a las tropas estadounidenses en una visita sorpresa, ya Canadá en junio, para participar en las cumbres del G8 y el G20. So far this year, the U.S. President has only been moved to the Czech Republic to sign a nuclear disarmament agreement with Russia to Afghanistan to visit U.S. troops in a surprise visit, and Canada in June to participate in the G8 and the G20. EFE EFE “
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Thanks for the link!
The White House denied on Sunday reports from Spanish media that United States President Barack Obama and his family would take a holiday early August in the posh southern Spanish resort city of Marbella.
A White House official told AFP the report by Spanish newspaper El Pais and El Mundo was incorrect.
Didn't Ferdinand drive the Moores out of Spain? haha
But really, I hope Obama is there planning his exile.
Weren’t they just in Maine, disruptig fellow vacationers plans. It must be nice to be king with your own private 747.
With the way the American economy and budget is right now, this is highly irresponsible. He is not stimulating local travel destinations and the costs to US citizens of moving his entourage and security to Spain is astronomical.
You are being to easy on him. How about narcissist, racist, liar, sinister and just pure evil?
He may even say 'the heck with this', dump Biden, appoint the Hildebeast as VP, and resign after being diagnosed with ASSWIPE (American Socialist Snob Worldwide Induced Popularity Exhaustion).
this is the 3rd vacay i’ve read about today
i wonder if Reggie Love is going
“It is getting so confusing trying to keep track of all his vacations!”
His vacations are getting in the way of his tee times.
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