They lied again. Does this look like a "business aircraft" to you? It's a Boeing 737!!
Posted on 12/17/2010 12:42:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
First Lady Michelle Obama, daughters Sasha and Malia and family dog Bo will fly to Hawaii on Saturday for a winter vacation, Politics Daily has learned, while President Obama remains in Washington to deal with Congress.
In a pre-emptive move -- remembering the stinging criticism of her lavish vacation to Spain last summer -- the East Wing volunteered that Mrs. Obama will be flying to Hawaii in a military version of a business airplane -- not the jumbo jet that flew her to the Mediterranean coast in August.
The first family originally had been scheduled to head to Hawaii on Saturday; the Obamas for years have celebrated Christmas and New Years in the state where Obama was born.
"Given the uncertainty of the president's schedule, First Lady Michelle Obama and their daughters will be departing on Dec. 18 as originally scheduled to join their family in Hawaii for the holidays," Mrs. Obama's spokesman, Catherine McCormick Lelyveld, told Politics Daily.
"The first family and Bo will be traveling on a C40B, one of the smaller and most efficient planes available in the White House fleet for this trip. The president will join them when the congressional session is complete. The entire first family will return to Washington, D.C. Jan. 1, 2011."
President Obama is delaying his trip because Congress has yet to finish work -- or give up on taking action for now -- on a variety of issues as of Friday: the budget, the START Treaty with Russia, the DREAM Act and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Obama has a special urgency to get things done now, because when the 112th Congress is sworn in on Jan. 5, the GOP will be in control of the House and the Senate Democratic majority will be diminished.
Mrs. Obama took a summer vacation to Spain that was billed as a "private mother-daughter trip with longtime family friends" that included a stop at the summer palace of Their Majesties King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia of Spain.
The Spain trip earned Mrs. Obama the harshest press of her tenure as first lady. The negative stories started as soon as she arrived in the Mediterranean coastal city of Marbella for a stay in the super-posh Villa Padierna, along with Sasha, her youngest daughter, and some friends. One of the enduring visuals of that trip was the picture of a big Air Force 757 parked at a Spanish airport. Many news outlets and blogs reported, inaccurately, about the size of Mrs. Obama's entourage, contributing to the bad press. But the East Wing declined at first to give out many facts about the trip. I set the record straight in an August Politics Daily column.
Preparation for 2012 election. Image make-over.
Most families I know tend to delay their vacation and leave together if dad has to work late.
funny how they worked that in there
So they toned it down to the level of luxury of a Saudi Prince.
Wow. You mean they got the message? Color me surprised.
Evil Republicans.
Even interfering with the Baraqqis “family time” LOL.
Where in Hawaii is Kenya located?
She can’t wait for her Marxist husband?
What is that she is using a Gulfstream G650??
That’s twice without hubby...What’s the sense of vacation??
They lied again. Does this look like a "business aircraft" to you? It's a Boeing 737!!
Does not Hawaii have some pretty strict animal quarantine regulations? I know, I know... First Family and all that jazz.
If she wants to adjust the seat, tell her to just reach under it and pull the handle.
PLEASE SEND HER THE PHOTO!
So Bo is going? I wonder if he will be subject to the quarantine laws Hawaii has for incoming animals. Or is that just for the little people.
And no bad smells either.
Barky is rail crazy.
Why doesn’t she take the train ?
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