This vacation is about as tone deaf as I've ever seen from a politician (even though she's just the First Lady) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/wor...ach-Michelle-Obamas-250k-Spanish-holiday.html For the record, E250,000 is roughly equal to almost $330,000. This kind of profligate spending would be bad enough if times were good, but with times like these, it's unconscionable.
oh the horror...excuse me while I dont give a shit. I cant believe people are actually trying to make a big deal out of this....The government spends more on a hammer
What's funnier and creepier is that 2 days prior to this, the state department lifted its travel warning about racism in Spain..... http://www.nydailynews.com/news/pol...05_spain_warning_axed_as_michelle_visits.html
The sadness continues.... linking to the Daily Mail, the single most sensational and unreliable paper in Britain.... surely a man of such immense education and company should not be wallowing in such a journalistic gutter. What would David Brooks, BFF, say? (WWDB,BFF,S, bro).
Personally, I have no beef with her going on vacation. In fact, she should have taken hubby with, and all of congress, too. It'd be way cheaper paying 250K pounds a week to put them all up somewhere than letting them spend as they do from the treasury. Hell it'd be cheaper to send them off for $1B/day.
Pretty uppity of her highness, don't you think? Stayin' at them nice hartels that white first lady's always stayed at. You telled her, maxiep. Put her in her place right quick you did.
Every time I want to give you the benefit of the doubt and just believe you're an idiot, you double down and prove you're an ass as well. Nicely done.
I'm a little unclear about what the objection is here. So we are paying for secret service protection for the first lady when she goes on holiday. Ok.... haven't we been doing that for decades? barfo
I think it is politically motivated whining, that's what I think. It's not like we hired those secret service guys just for this trip. barfo
Rep'd. (Oops, I have to spread the rep around before I can rep you again. It's the thought that counts)
On the one hand I really don't care. On the other hand, this type of thing is smack in the face against what they preach. It just proves out that the Obamas say one thing and do another. But that's not too odd for people in high political office- being liars and having contempt for those they perceive as beneath them- in this case the American people.
No, actually I don't know what you are talking about. If you think that Obama has said people shouldn't take vacations due to the economy, please provide details. barfo
Well, Obama did talk down Vegas as some sort of excess. I can see how some people see it as "do as I say, not as I do." Or anther case of being tone deaf to what "regular" people can't do these days, on his watch. Link
Weakest racially motivated right-wing smear attempt in decades. Anyone climbing on this train will never be taken seriously again.
