Michelle Obama Antoinette

The Looking Spoon ^ | 8-7-2010 | Jared H. McAndersen

[The Looking Spoon]

Sacrifice is something that many Americans are becoming all too familiar with during this economic downturn. It was a key theme in President Obama's inaugural address to the nation, and he's referenced it numerous times when lecturing the country on how to get back on its feet.

But while most of the country is pinching pennies and downsizing  summer sojourns - or forgoing them altogether - the Obamas don't seem to be heeding their own advice. While many of us are struggling, the First Lady is spending the next few days in a five-star hotel on the chic Costa del Sol in southern Spain with 40 of her "closest friends." According to CNN, the group is expected to occupy 60 to 70 rooms, more than a third of the lodgings at the 160-room resort. Not exactly what one would call cutting back in troubled times.

Reports are calling the lodgings of  Obama's Spanish fiesta, the Hotel Villa Padierna in Marbella, "luxurious," "posh" and "a millionaires' playground." Estimated room rate per night? Up to a staggering $2,500. Method of transportation? Air Force Two.

To be clear, what the Obamas do with their money is one thing; what they do with ours is another. Transporting and housing the estimated 70 Secret Service agents who will flank the material girl will cost the taxpayers a pretty penny.

Read the rest of this astute New York Post editorial by Andrea Tartaros here.

I don't know how these people sleep at night, I truly don't, but I do know that Michelle's official portrait needs a redo. I also know what Michelle Antoinette's portrait should look like (click the image to see a larger version)...

As the self-appointed Obesity Czar she's actually worse than a modern day Marie Antoinette because she wouldn't even let us eat cake.

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[EGPWS]

Oh god gawd, a woman with a hair do as big as her a$$.

It just doesn't work....nope....not fashionable at all...nope.

[Popman]

Toning down the flash would humanize the Obamas and signify that they sympathize with the setbacks of the people they were elected to serve to people.

Ha' they were elected to serve ???

That's the main problem, the Obama's think Americans elected them to assuage their white guilt and serve them

They are nothing but ghetto harpies

[bobby.223]

worse.

[dalebert]

ty for posting this

[FrankR]

[tflabo]

Let them eat cake Torta.... but cornbread for you southern crackers!

[dfwgator]

People of Europe, I send you the Rainbow of Chicago

Spain has fallen to the charms of Michelle
She can do what she likes, it doesn’t matter much

She’s our lady of the new world with a golden touch

She filled a bull-ring, forty-five thousand seater

But if you’re prettier than General Franco, that’s not hard

Franco’s reign in Spain should see out the forties
So you’ve just acquired an ally who
Looks as secure in his job as you

But more important current political thought is
Your wife’s a phenomenal asset, your trump card

Let’s hear it for the Rainbow Tour
It’s been an incredible success
We weren’t quite sure, we had a few doubts

Will Michelle win through?
But the answer is yes