British Paper: If White House Really Wanted to Cut Spending They’d Rein in Michelle Obama
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, August 26, 2011, 5:59 AM
$10 million worth of free advice.
From left to right: the first lady’s mother Marian Robinson, Assistant Minister of Finance and Development Planning Gloria Somolekae, Obama, nephew Avery Robinson, daughter Sasha, niece Leslie Robinson and daughter Malia in Botswana. (BET)
Nile Gardiner at The Telegraph offered the White House some advice today. If the Obama Administration really wanted to cut spending they could start by reining in on Michelle Obama.
The Telegraph reported:
With the United States facing a national debt of more than $14 trillion, the largest since World War Two, wouldn’t it make sense for the White House itself to start trimming its own spending? A good place to begin cutting would be Michelle Obama’s rather generous vacation programme. Keith Coffler, who edits the influential White House Dossier, notes that Michelle Obama spent no less than 42 days on vacation over the past year – that’s one in every nine days:
Her vacations, the cost of which are mostly borne by taxpayers, include trips to Panama City, Fla., Martha’s Vineyard, Hawaii, South Africa, Latin America, Vail, Colo., and her visit this week to her brother in Corvallis, Ore.
The total does not include a nine day sojourn in Martha’s Vineyard that the Obamas will enjoy this month. Nor does it include a trip she made to Ireland and Great Britain in May, which I’m counting as official travel.
As Coffler points out, there is a significant cost to the public purse:
Taxpayers pick up most of the cost of transporting the first lady and her extensive entourage – including Secret Service and her staff – to her various destinations. While she may in some cases pay some of the tab for her personal expenses and travel, the amount is dwarfed by the overall cost to the public.
It is unclear what the total cost to the taxpayer actually amounts to. According to one estimate provided by the Daily Mail, the First Lady stands accused by sources inside the White House of spending “$10 million of US taxpayers’ money on vacations alone in the past year.” Judging by the amount of vacation time Michelle Obama has taken and the level of security and staffing that she has, this sounds like a plausible figure. It would be in the public interest to have the exact numbers provided by the White House so that Americans know precisely how much of their money is being spent on vacations.
There does appear to be an unhealthy sense of entitlement on the part of the First Lady, which seems in poor taste at a time when 14 million Americans are out of work, the housing market is collapsing, and the United States is facing the strong possibility of a double-dip recession.
Meanwhile, Judicial Watch has filed a Freedom of Information request to obtain records related to Michelle Obama’s trip to South Africa and Botswana.
The Washington Examiner reported:
Judicial Watch is filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) against the United States Air Force to obtain records related to the June 21-27, 2011, trip taken by First Lady Michelle Obama, her family, and her staff to South Africa and Botswana.
Earlier reports suggested that the cost for air travel cost taxpayers $430,000, but Judicial Watch believes that additional Secret Service officers and White House staff security tallied further expenses.
“How much did the American people spend to send the First Lady on a family outing in Africa? That’s what we want to know,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “On the surface, the trip seems to have been totally unnecessary and was as much an excuse for the Obama family to go on a safari as it was a mission intended to advance the nation’s business in Africa.”
Doug Ross has more on Michelle O’s expensive tastes.
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No Man commented:
Racists!
Joanne commented:
Just another narcissist who believes they are above others and entitled to whatever they want courtesty of taxpayers. Michelle Obama’s world has been at the expense of others.
Kilroy64 commented:
“I’m owed all of this and more!! I’ve suffered at the hands of the white man!!! ” — Michelle Obama
With the grace of God these people will be sent packing by the next presidential election. They’ve set race relations back 30-40 years. It will be a long time before the harm they’ve done this country is corrected. I hope I live to see it.
donh commented:
Hidee Hidee Ho ..Its Minnie the Moocher…. http://youtu.be/8mq4UT4VnbE
Sam Stone commented:
“I am STARTING to be proud to be American.”
Patty commented:
Absolutely the first lady and Obama are spending too much on Vacations. I don’t deny a couple days visiting towns in America. Less cost and the Americans meet them. But to leave to expensive and for days is undoubtedly and embarrassment during bad times.
Even China has weighed in and we are giving them, thanks to Obama and Immelt, critical secrets about our Military and Aircraft technology.
I in my life can’t believe what I have witnessed happening to America. Obama owns this economy and I wish there was a way to get him out of office, now. But that won’t happen.
There has been so many things lately that we have heard from those in the Financial business but when we were Downgraded that was the time that Obama should have given their spending in Martha Vineyard a second look.
Sam Stone commented:
Remember the Drudge Headline?
Ho in the Garden
Sam Stone commented:
Didn’t Michelle have a starring role in the new Planet of the Apes?
Ginger commented:
So when he is kicked out of the white house next year are we still going to have to pay for all of their travels? Sepertate directions, the girls schools, vacations, you get my meaning? They are on their own in 10 years! We will have to still watch the kenyan fraud after he is thrown out of the white house because he will still try and bill us taxpayers for his overly protected protection! I hear we are paying out one and a half million just for the cia to protect his house in Chicago which does not have the Obama’s/Soetoro’s names on the deed!
Patty commented:
#3
Ditto
Major Kong commented:
When I see Moochelle and her traveling entourage perpetrating another tax-payer junket, I think to myself, there goes the official “Flash Mob of the United States of America.”
Patty commented:
We will pay and pay for Obama care if it is not Overturned. That is what we will pay for and any of his policies that haven’t been overturned.
tommy mc donnell commented:
thats funny coming from a country that has a royal family.
Ginger commented:
I picked this up from another blog and I found it to be funny and true!
If EmirB-HO’s head exploded Sore-A$$ would pop out.
Patty commented:
Comparisons of first Ladies. Think about Barbara Bush or Laura Bush.
Now, Michelle Obama!
That will do it.
Redwine commented:
There also needs to be an investigation into all of those expensive, taxpayer-funded WH parties.
rabble-rouser commented:
Michelle to quote your owns words, ” parents if you want your children to have healthy spending habits, than start healthy spending habits.”
Patty commented:
Tax payers money is a terrible thing to waste should be the new motto.
Remember a Mind is a Terrible thing to waste.
These days are extraordinary times. Different from any other times but it seems it isn’t getting through to Obama’s. But I really wish someone would answer, WHY?
Is it he and she are that stupid or do they know something we don’t. Very puzzling.
Sandy commented:
While 1 in 9 children go hungry in the USA Michelle and her entire entourage including Mom live large at our expense. No wonder BO wants to raise taxes. The family needs the money to support their lavish lifestyle.
Patty commented:
#17
Blah, Blah, Blah, She needs to practice what she preaches for her daughters. I never elected her or him to the bully pulpit to demand from us one thing.
A whole lot of mumble jumble in my opinion and what makes it worse, they are both trying desperately to say something that will go down in the history books as so poetic and wonderful.
Patty commented:
I have a strong feeling the Obama’s will never have to want for a thing. But while they are in the White House they need to get their priorities straight. TOO LATE!
mercador commented:
She is just the tip of the entitlement people iceberg.
Patty commented:
#16
God, I hope so! and I mean this with the best intentions for America!!
Patty commented:
She definitely wears the pants in that family.
Mike C commented:
Look at those sourpuss brats.
Patty commented:
A president and first lady, when qualified, should ALWAYS set an example. Many different things occur while in office.
They should use common sense and be respectful without bowing. Seems they have an entirely different appreciation for their positions at this point in time. That is why so many are quite outraged.
The respect for the office has been tattered a bit. While the Obama are in Washington they are going to make the most of their situation no matter what the consequences.
Rachelle commented:
This family is living more lavishly than actual royalty in Europe. It’s a disgrace.
I am hoping that when they are out of office their expenses can be audited and they can be sued for recovery of some of it.
Basically, sue the bastards!
Patty commented:
And one thing is for sure, you know just how liberal the both are when they tax and spend. Actually, that is the style for all democrats.
Patrick commented:
On the contrary, Obama ought to be on Michell’s diet plan in order to reign in Obama’s spending obesity.
jb books commented:
Cake anyone? Seriously, these people lead they entitlement crowd.
Hedgehog commented:
#9 Ginger: This whole crowd belongs in jail. That would probably reduce the cost of “protecting” them.
cal rifkin commented:
Hey now! Spike and Oprah! and JZ and and all Mooch elle’s “friends” told her to Spend as Muuucch as you possibly can! No Limit. Run up the biggggest bill possible. Y’all don’t know if a black man willl evuh get back into the White House!!!
John Galt commented:
The site Robbing America also picked up on the Brits’ comments on Michelle, but in their commentary they added the “semi-official” travel to 72 days, which is even more scandalous than the Brits suggested.
You can look at it at http://www.robbingamerica.com
A different photo also helps.
RKflorida commented:
At least the slob covered some of her skin in this photo. Low class wookie.
decentAmerican commented:
So Moochlle is the one who wrote in her thesis that she has felt a sense of racism all her life, even though she had a middle class background and benefitted from affirmative action. So this is a perfect case of Moochelle Antoinette, figuring that American society owes her, to take advantage. She has no officialy duties as first lady, yet she has a staff of more than 20, and takes her mother and niece and nephew on these tax payer funded vacations.
Taking advantage of the system. Something for nothing. The Liberal mentality.
Can I just tell you how much I hate this first couple and how they are single handedly destroying America?
And you have that nutjob Rutgers professor yelling at Paul ryan for drinking wine that he paid for, and she is totally quiet about Moochelle wasting taxpayers money, money that could have gone to feed the homeless, feed hungry school children. Do you know how much health care and food 10 million dollars can buy?
WHAT SAY YOU LIBERAL NUTJOBS? ARE YOU OK WITH THIS?
StrangernFiction commented:
These days are extraordinary times. Different from any other times but it seems it isn’t getting through to Obama’s. But I really wish someone would answer, WHY?
Is it he and she are that stupid or do they know something we don’t. Very puzzling.
They are not THAT stupid. Separate planes 4 hours apart? No, I don’t believe for a second that they are THAT tone deaf. They do these things despite the optics. They are going to have their cake AND eat it too (ie rub our nose in it AND get reelected). They get off on that. They are complete power trippers. They won’t stop until they are stopped.
lol commented:
“everybody has to put some skin in the game” according to her husband. the ruling class are exempt, the serfs (american taxpayers) fund her sense of entitlement.
Patriot Act commented:
Boy, I’d like to get a piece of that shared sacrifice.
Just think how much money they’d be costing us if they weren’t sacrificing.
RedBeard commented:
It’s troubling that it took foreign media to write that article. Where are our own media people? Right; they’re too busy licking Obama’s boots.
Ginger commented:
While searching and on top of the page that had nothing to do with my search was this:
President Obama’s web site
Working together, we can win again. Join Barack Obama’s Campaign now.
StrangernFiction commented:
So this is a perfect case of Moochelle Antoinette, figuring that American society owes her, to take advantage.
There is no question Meeeechelle is all about taking advantage, but not because she believes America owes her anything. I don’t think deep down she believes anything of the sort. She is just a rotten individual.
Bunni commented:
Hurray, the worst lady and her gaggle of grifters are finally being exposed for the thieves they are!
Love it.
Sparky commented:
Michelle is just cashing in on her reward for climbing to the top of the Chicago dung pile.
All a$$ and no class!
fred commented:
If they were smart (which they aren’t) the Obamas would spend their vacation time visiting poor (mainly black) areas of the US. This would be good role modeling for their young impressionable daughters too. But when you have no values, hedoism rules. If I was a Republican candidate for the WH I would pledge now not to take a vacation until Americans are going back to work in large numbers.
BarbaraS commented:
Isn’t it amazing that Palin was required to reimburse the state of Alaska for the cost of her children’s travel expenses due to a ethics complaint from a dim supporter but michelle obama can take her whole extended family and numerous friends on her vacations that taxpayers pay for with no criticism from the press? Oh, to be a dim and have carte blanche.
bg commented:
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what about her trip to Spain??
oh wait, that was one of last years, silly cake eater me.. /s/
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Multitude commented:
It’s quite true: the teaparty types have no sense of humor.
I’m personally enjoying “WHITEY’S HOUSE 2008″ — the reality political television show that media producer and fiction writer George Soros created in 2007-2008. Featuring a total nobody night-school adjunct lecturer poseur and his grifter wife — both of which obtained law degrees thanks to equal opportunity law, but lost their authority to practice law due to the inevitable ethical problems found with some who are advanced well beyond their means — WHITEY’S HOUSE is a remarkable comedy that illuminates the bankruptcy of the American political system.
Right out of the ’80s film “Trading Places,” Barry, who cannot mumble a coherent sentence without a crew of writers and a teleprompter, is advanced as a brilliant visionary, complete with Chauncey Gardener missives like “Hope and Change” which wet the pants of the drugged, deranged and delusional progressives. Michelle, a narcissistic beauty of an angered female Klingon crossed with all the charm of the Alien movie queen beast, is let loose on the unsuspecting and adoring American public, tearing into a capitalist fury of profane excess consumption that would shame the adoring Maoists and Stalinists in Barry’s administration.
True to the promise of reality TV, one simply cannot write all of this stuff. Neither earthquake nor hurricane can break Barry from his golf course sloth, nor take Michelle away from her voracious appetite for spending funds seized from struggling American citizens. And don’t forget drunk Uncle Joe, who’s always got a good Chinaman, Jewish Banker or Indian Slurpee worker joke to bring out the chuckles in the foreign policy circles. Or Janet “I see Soccer Mom Terrorists” the Paranoid Admin, who never fails to confuse the bad guys with the good. Even minor stars, like Timmy “I didn’t steal it!” the Cheat Banker, and Eric “It ain’t a crime when it’s black on white” the Bigoted Attorney deliver roles destined to keep Americans poor, terrorized by their government, but still rolling in the laughs.
Of course, it does appear we’ll only have at most another season with WHITEY’S HOUSE, as it appears certain it won’t be picked up for another four years.
dlsada commented:
Ya’ll are “downright mean.”
Louie_DaSmasher commented:
Hey! Look on the bright side of things!
When they are booted out of the White House (and they WILL be booted out), they get to move back to their house in Chicago.
Let’s have a show of hands for those who want to live in THAT hellhole.
MamaGrizzly commented:
President and First Lady Flash Mob . . .
Big Al commented:
does anyone know how her travel compares to Laura Bush? If its pretty much the same this line of criticism is a waste of time and energy and will backfire. If MO’s is way out of line then the criticism is fair.
MamaGrizzly commented:
Maybe, but the country wasn’t in such dire straits then, huh?
And thanks to Barack Obama.
The photo: Michelle just LOVES it when people pay homage to her. She’d like it better if the whole tribe were to dance to her and bow down . . . yup, dat’s what it’s all ’bout, yo.
WTFPRESIDENT commented:
Now WTF is going home today, and Mooch is leaving tomorrow. Another separate trip costing taxpayers tons of money. She should be made to pay her own way, if he isn’t on the plane with her.
MamaGrizzly commented:
From the Cypress Times:
“”Qu’ils mangent de la brioche” or “Let them eat cake” was Marie Antoinette’s reported response when she was told that the peasants had no bread to eat. Antoinette was the wife of French ruler Loius XVI and was eventually beheaded for her lack of compassion for the poor of France during the French Revolution.
Now with more unemployed Americans than any time since the great depression struggling to feed their children, First Lady Michelle Obama is off in Spain with 40 of her BFF’s occupying an estimated 60 to 70 rooms at the posh five-star hotel, Villa Padierna, on the chic Costa del Sol in southern Spain where the room rates range from $379 (Euro) per night to $1,540 (Euro) per night.
So, even if the Obama entourage is staying in the cheap rooms (which they ain’t) that would come to roughly $22,740 (Euro) per night for 60 rooms or $26,530 (Euro) for 70 rooms per night. PER NIGHT! It’s good to be Queen, right Marie?”
That’s more than $38,000 USD/PER NIGHT for the cheap rooms (which she of course wouldn’t be using . . .)
SPENDING = CRISIS = EVENTUAL MARSHALL LAW = SUSPENSION OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
Just sayin’
bg commented:
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Big Al #52 August 26, 2011 at 12:18 pm
that’s a trick question, no??
i mean, even if she did (which i don’t believe for a second, it would
have been an 8 year total vs almost 3 years), she never asked US
to sacrifice..
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scituate_tgr commented:
Saw an advertisement on ABC last night that reflects just how low class the office of the Presidency and First Lady have become.
A two-hour special “Extreme Makeover” at the White House.
Oh goody, the People’s House has become a reality TV show. Fantastic.
decentAmerican commented:
Goodness, they took seperate planes to get to the Vineyard, costing huge dough, and now they’re taking seperate planes BACK??? Have the no decency?
Moocher Moochelle is beyond tasteless, and this horribly family will mooch off the American taxpayer until they can mooch no more. These are the type of people who steal towels from hotel rooms. I hope and pray they leave some of the furniture when they finally exit from the WH in January 2013. When they do leave, will someone please escort them to the door, to make sure they don’t steal anything?
then the WH needs to be shut down for a week for total fumigation and cleansing.
Coasta commented:
#57, Is this for real? Moochelle brings everything down! Low class, does she really look at herself before she leaves the house!!! We have been spoiled by Laura Bush and other First Ladies that have superior class and manners. Then we get “Ms Thing” Ugh!
Coasta commented:
#49 yeah, I am downright mean about Mochelle. Her and her WTH husband are destroying our America and I don’t care if they are white, black, purple, red, yellow, orange or green! They need to go.soon.soonerthebetter.likenow!
big L commented:
I guess we will have to have legislation defining the “First Lady” duties(?) Is that the corrrect phrase? Any money spent out side of D.C. is from personal expenses. and a couple of staff and one SS agent. The Plane is reimbursed at firstclass rates, from F.L. pocket.Signing to the room only on FL’s credit card-personal- credit card. They are a family; they pay for kids lodging and meals and air.
Anything that is campaigning is on the DNC or RNC, thirty-days to settle or it goes to collection.
No more ‘Office of the First Lady”. No more policy making. Just two staffers. If FL wants them to be gofers, then that is all she gets. Same with reception or phones or typing. She chooses. Beyond this FL pays out of her checkbook. Con-current billing. No running up the tab until the end of term and skipping. Staff is vetted too. What they did 3 jobs back.
No policy making either unless she gets Senate Hearing describing her plans.No Czar status. No civil service satus either.
Big Al commented:
all I am saying is that we have a bona fide communist in the white house (clothed as a centrist which is even more dangerous) who is hell bent on socializing this country and regulating our economy to death on behalf of every leftist special interest there is…..therefore maybe attacking his wife (who is presumably still quite popular) may actually be counterproductive….unless her travel is provably egregious…then all bets are off
donh commented:
Hiney Hiney Hiney HO…She messed around with a bloke named Smokie…She loved him though he was a cokie…He took her down to China Town and showed her how to kick the gong around….Ide Ide Ide Hiney hiney HO…… http://youtu.be/rC6JUA8cjoY
Lavgoo commented:
This Beotch says “The Rich White People” owe me Rev. J. Wright said so. I can’t wait for November 2012 so we can see her and her loser idiot husband sent back to the Chicago sewer from where they slithered to curse us all.
AuntieMadder commented:
The b!tch is putting Imelda Marcos to shame.
S. Wolf commented:
The British consider Zero a British subject.
‘The British Consular Registry uses the criteria set forth in the British Nationality Act of 1948 Section 5(1) of the United Kingdom and Colonies to determine who would be qualified as a “British Citizen By Descent.”
Section 5-1 reads thus:
5.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a person born after the commencement of this Act shall be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by descent if his father is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies at the time of the birth:
Provided that if the father of such a person is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by descent only, that person shall not be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of this section unless—
(a) that person is born or his father was born in a protectorate, protected state, mandated territory or trust territory or any place in a foreign country where by treaty, capitulation, grant, usage, sufferance, or other lawful means, His Majesty then has or had jurisdiction over British subjects; or
(b) that person’s birth having occurred in a place in a foreign country other than a place such as is mentioned in the last foregoing paragraph, the birth is registered at a United Kingdom consulate within one year of its occurrence, or, with the permission of the Secretary of State, later; or
(c) that person’s father is, at the time of the birth, in Crown service under His Majesty’s government in the United Kingdom; or
(d) that person is born in any country mentioned in subsection (3) of section one of this Act in which a citizenship law has then taken effect and does not become a citizen thereof on birth.
The man Obama claims as his father is Barrack Hussein Obama, Sr., a man born in the Kenya Colony in 1936. Being born in the Kenya Colony, he was a British subject or citizen. Obama was born after the commencement of this above quoted act, ergo, Obama Jr. is a British citizen-by-descent; the precise nature of his citizenship would be a Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies (CUKC). Citizenship by descent is the means of obtaining it.
According to the Kenya Constitution (87), Obama became a Kenyan citizen in 1963, by virtue of the fact that his claimed father was born in the Kenya colony.
The Constitution of Kenya, Section 87, reads thus:
87*. Persons who became citizens on 12th December, 1963
Every person who, having been born in Kenya, is on llth December, 1963, as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or a British protected person, shall become a citizen of Kenya on 12th December, 1963:Provided that a person shall not become a citizen of Kenya by virtue of this subsection if neither of his parents was born in Kenya.
Every person who, having been born outside Kenya, is on llth December, 1963, as a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or a British protected person, shall, if his father becomes, or would but for his death have become, a citizen of Kenya by virtue of subsection (1), become a citizen of Kenya on 12th December, 1963.
Therefore Obama Jr. became a citizen of Kenya, Dec. 12, 1963, when his father did. Moreover, when his father returned to Kenya, upon graduation from Harvard, he obtained employment with the Kenyan Government as a senior Economist. However, in section 88 it specifies that one who can become a citizen, may only register as such if he is 21 years or older. Whether this means that he is not a citizen unless registered it not clear. If so, then if Obama Jr.’s parent(s) did not register him, he might not have become a Kenyan citizen.’
http://www.thepostemail.com/2009/12/24/british-law-declares-obama-a-british-citizen/
bg commented:
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LOL..
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i’m getting a kick out of them trying to compare the BUSH family
vacations in Crawford to MICHELLE’S round the world jaunts..
ergo i say..
add up the hubby’s & the rest of the families
vacation bills & see what that totals.. yikes!!
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bg commented:
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S. Wolf #67 August 26, 2011 at 3:18 pm
When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.
haven’t you come to the realization that THE POWERS
THAT BE KNOW, HOWEVER, DON”T GIVE A CRAP yet??
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Iconoclast commented:
Seabiscuit & her Kenyan jockey are nothing more than affirmative action failures feeding in the trough of entitlements.
Yes, they have harmed race relations, not least because of the damage their policies have wrought among the black middle class. The biggest damage, though, has been to the entitlement system and this is a good thing. What poster children for the dismantlement of the whole affirmative action fraud !!! What productive citizen can look at the way these ghetto trash have behaved and still support ACORN, welfare & the like?
It’s been a painful and horrifically expensive lesson, but with any sort of luck at all, America will abandon the extensive ‘safety net’ social giveaway programs and tie assistance back into personal behaviors and responsibilities.
And, in the process, the decadent life these entitlement ho’s have enjoyed can be audited. Seeing them stripped of their ill-gotten gains and provided free government housing in Leavenworth would be mighty satisfying.
grizzlybare commented:
Big Mamma is angry and resentful……and she’s gonna take what’s OWED to her and “her people”. The sky’s the limit! All us crackers out here better button up.
Hobbitually conservative commented:
The ultimate welfare queen.
MN Jim commented:
Never mind the expensive vacations – the real issue is all the sofa slipcovers that have to be replaced after making them into Wookie fashions.
curly commented:
#35 please….don’t insult Marie Antoinette, who’s comment “let them eat cake” got her beheaded because said comment was misconstrued. Michelle, on the other hand, in her mind, deserves all that she is taking. Marie was a much better person.
Mooch-elle Is A Nasty Skank Ho commented:
You can take Mooch-elle out of the ghetto, but…
Jerry Kimbro commented:
I haven’t had a vacation anywhere since 1999. When I get time off- I stay home and read a book.
Todd commented:
Socialism is for the people silly rabbit….NOT the socialist elite!
Sierra Khan commented:
Re: snipes abt #FLOTUS travel: #pettyCoatTales. As 1st Lady, Laura Bush “traveled 2 all 50 States, more than 75 countries.” Didn’t hear a lotta sniping then. So what gives?
Also see, “In Chelsea’s and the Bush twins footsteps, the Obama girls travel to Africa:” http://wtim.es/pBnd0P via @wtcommunities
So Michelle Obama’s travel is entirely consistent with tradition of US First Lady activities.
Joe Messana commented:
It is the old entitlement thing. The Obamas are no different than any other black american family.
hotshot bald cop commented:
Thank you for a great post.