Posted on 08/09/2010 4:51:11 AM PDT by maggief
Oh please. Are they really using this for an excuse?
Disgusting.
My father passed away 2 years ago, no one took me to Spain, and I certainly would not have expected them to.
Hint to Michelle Antoinette: “most of us, REAL PEOPLE, send sympathy cards.”
Starlite Gala invitation: http://www.thestarlitegala.com/2010/program-en.php
these people really know Americans are stupid-and they ALWAYS will be.
Sorry but I had to make a couple of corrections to your post.
Great destination for a ‘mother/daughter getaway.’
http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/racism-warning-yanked-as-michelle-obama-hits-spain/19581198
Racism Warning Yanked as Michelle Obama Hits Spain
Hugh Collins Contributor
AOL News
(Aug. 4) — First lady Michelle Obama arrived in Spain today amid an embarrassing discussion about a State Department warning of racism among Spanish police.
Comments on the State Department website warned Americans that there had been cases of African-Americans being victimized by Spanish police.
(snip)
So what about the other 40-60 "friends" that went on that trip?
$75k?!!! Don’t buy that hogwash...its more like in the millions per day to provide security advance teams, reaction teams, medical teams and state dept support, protocol and liaison officers. Not to mention their transpo, housing, feeding and their equipment needs and support. I would put the support costs to the taxpayers at or near $10 mill. How many c5’s ferried personnel and special equipment to Spain in the last month? Those fuel suckers are expensive to fly not to mention crew times layovers and ground support.
Hell the $75k was probably her entourage room costs only...meals and gratuities extra!
Deepak Chopra is this Michelle my Belle’s spirtual leader? He was Michael Jacksons. Deepak Chopra was featured at the Star Lite Gala.
The only good news in that article for me was that this was a “private trip” ... thank heavens I didn’t have to pay for it as a taxpayer. /s
How bout vacationing in the fricking US of A, biyotch?
Most people will swallow this bullcrap too...
yes, sure, there’s nothing more “friendly” than arriving with a contingent of 60 of my security/regular staff for an intimate friend on friend comforting session. pathetic to put this out as an excuse. not buying and now even madder.
I understand Marie Antoinette was good looking.
“Deepak Chopra is this Michelle my Belles spirtual leader? He was Michael Jacksons. Deepak Chopra was featured at the Star Lite Gala.”
What luck! Perhaps Oprah’s (Club of Rome) guru was able to offer grief counseling. /sarc.
Nah, just a vacay with the little future Ivy League graduate, Oxford/Cambridge fellow and hedge fund/investment advisor for privately held money in New York or Chicago or Dubai.
In the meantime, her hubby is Martin Nesbitt, Obama's supposed best friend.
This whole thing is "politics" as usual.
Each parent was allowed one child as cover.
A trip like this, or any trip for our crrent inhabitants of the White House, takes months of planning.
So if M’Antoinette’s best friend’s father passed away a few weeks ago how did they get all the details done so quickly?
And it was a lucky thing that the King of Spain was available for lunch on short notice.
Look for more absurd CYA cover-up stories like this to be released, each one one desperate than the next.
(M’Antoinette’s BFF is her gynecologist. Maybe she needed her annual Pap smear with a touch of paella)
This was not what they are "spinning" it as now. This was planned far in advance. About the only thing that was not planned carefully was Michelle's wardrobe. What she wore looks like she just grabbed it from WalMart and threw it in a suitcase on her way to the airport. And wore her clothes sans ironing.
Oh well, send that balloon up and see if it'll fly.
Can someone tell me why the husbands and wives are in separate ports?
Wouldn't it make more sense if everyone had gone to Chicago?
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