[SMARTY]

The cost of the security for her trip certainly outweighs any good her choice of a cause and location may have done.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The cost of the security for her trip certainly outweighs any good her choice of a cause and location may have done.

I disagree. Her involvement will bring a bright PR spotlight on this need.

[ClancyJ]

So, I guess, she just sits in the White House so some can claim that she is sponging off the government and is a lazy no-good.

[q_an_a]

sometimes I wonder if people who post here stop and think before doing it. So there is a security cost. If she is able to help and our media has created a situation where there is no private life for the daughter of a President, is she to stop helping people because of the cost? If she helps and at sometime in the future is able to lead a discussion about African needs - because she was there, then the left can't cry that Republicans don't care. There is no down side to her help to these poor people.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

So what's her choice ? Stay locked up in the WH ?

[ravingnutter]

The cost of the security for her trip certainly outweighs any good her choice of a cause and location may have done.

She would be under security no matter where she is...so your point is moot.