Posted on 08/05/2010 9:14:10 AM PDT by kristinn
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters yesterday, in answer to a query about First Lady Michelle Obama's Spanish vacation where she is protected by 70 Secret Service agents, 250 Spanish law enforcement officers, will meet with Spain's king and queen and is staying at a luxury hotel where she has reserved 60 rooms, that it is none of the American people's business because she is a "private citizen."
Lynn Sweet reported at the Chicago Sun-Times that Gibbs was asked about "the appearance" of Obama's vacation and that Gibbs blew it off by asserting Michelle Obama is a "private citizen":
"The first lady is on a private trip. She is a private citizen and is the mother of a daughter on a private trip. And I think I'd leave it at that," Gibbs said.
Sweet goes on to note that this is Michelle Obama's eighth scheduled vacation in the first nine months of 2010:
First ladies often go on vacations, with and without the president. An issue for Mrs. Obama may be how many: New York in March; Chicago, over Memorial Day; Los Angeles in June; Camp David -- sort of an extension of the White House -- in July; Maine in July, to highlight Acadia National Park, and now Spain. Mrs. Obama is glamorizing Spain's coastal resorts before her Aug. 14 first family weekend visit to Florida's Gulf Coast, to encourage tourists scared away by the oil spill. Starting Aug. 19, the Obamas will spend 10 days in Martha's Vineyard.
Last year, Michelle Obama vacationed in Paris and London, Martha's Vineyard, Hawaii, and Chicago, with a working vacation in Copenhagen lobbying for Chicago's failed bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics. There was also the infamous 'date night' in New York City.
With America mired in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and Obama's policies exacerbating the crisis rather than fixing it, Barack and Michelle Obama live their lives like billionaires, even though the president's salary is $400,000 per year and the Obamas are only worth a few million dollars thanks to book sales.
Barack Obama has played over 40 rounds of golf in the 19 months of his presidency in addition to his numerous luxury vacations.
Michelle Obama routinely wears outfits that, from her $800 shoes to her $5000 earrings and $300 tote bags, are impossible for the average working or unemployed woman to afford.
It appears the press is finally taking notice of what many of us have long seen in the Obamas:
'Michelle Obama is a modern-day Marie Antoinette': First Lady slammed for lavish Marbella holiday
Have you seen the bigger piggies
In their starched white shirts
You will find the bigger piggies
Stirring up the dirt
Always have clean shirts to play around in
In their styes with all their backing
They don't care what goes on around
In their eyes there's something lacking
What they need's a damn good whacking
Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon
by George Harrison
at least have them turn in their WH credit cards.
If she paid with the trip with private funds....he might have a point.
If she paid with the trip with private funds....he might have a point.
“The first lady is on a private trip. She is a private citizen and is the mother of a daughter on a private trip. And I think I’d leave it at that,” Gibbs said.
Mm Hmm, and she got there on private transportation and all those agents and police protecting her are employed by a private security firm. And she’s paying for the whole thing. Right.
A private citizen with taxpayer funded secret service and I suspect transportation....
I would so love for her to actually become a “private citizen”.
Then she has no business spending the American peoples money and she should spend her own on these silly lavish trips.
“private citizens” spending “public money”!!!!
Sorry Gibbs but she is on our dime.
Our money = Our Business
LLS
“She is a private citizen and is the mother of a daughter on a private trip. And I think I’d leave it at that,” Gibbs said.”
The animals learn that the cows’ milk and windfallen apples are mixed every day into the pigs’ mash. When the animals object, Squealer explains that the pigs need the milk and apples to sustain themselves as they work for the benefit of all the other animals.
My last few posts are about this so others can look at my post history instead of me repeating everything but the so called American media are a disgrace and why Spain?
Why not here?
Why all these vacations?
Why are her friends and mother over there on our dime?
Why this much money and why 60 rooms paid for by us?
This is a disgrace and all of these vacations are a disgrace and why did they not spend their time with their husband and father for his birthday unless they do not celebrate birthdays like Christmas
Anyone can read my past few posts over this and see why we struggle to pay for water bills ,never eat out, never get takeout, massive cutbacks for the last two years and now I pay for their vacations at least once a month.
Just what the hell does this woman do but vacation with friends and family which we pay for.
The likes of NBC, ABC, CNN etc need to be stormed and be forced to answer why they are so corrupt and not reporting on this family and have not in the last few years
Guess what...She’s a public servant by marriage and totally accountable.
Will someone in that press room please just get up and punch Gibbs in the face.
Are the 70 Secret Service guys also on HER money, or are We the People paying for them? Room AND food? How about that she took Air Force Two to get there? Her private funds again?
These people have NO class and absolutely NO sense of the dignity of the office which her idiot husband holds.
Hmmm. Just a private citizen? With a huge entourage and taxpayer-funded luxury vacation? Where do I sign up for one?
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