Posted on 03/15/2011 8:31:41 PM PDT by kristinn
While American ally Japan faces the world's worst nuclear power disaster in decades on top of a 9.0 earthquake and apocalyptic tsunami, the Middle East is in flames and the U.S. facing bankruptcy, Barack Obama is trying yet again to take his daughters on a taxpayer funded Spring Break trip overseas.
Last year, Obama scheduled a family trip with no diplomatic importance to Indonesia and Australia timed to his daughters' Spring Break from the elite Sidwell Friends School. That trip was cancelled at the last minute, which still cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in squandered advance planning expenditures, when Obama was pressured by Democrats to stay in Washington for the healthcare bill debate in Congress and then cancel the trip again to deal with the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico months later.
This year, Obama is jetting off to Rio de Janeiro with the wife and kids on another trip timed to the girls' Spring Break at Sidwell Friends which begins on Friday, March 18. The Obamas head for Brazil that evening according to the White House (via The Chicago Sun-Times:
"On Friday evening, the First Family will travel to Brasilia, Brazil."
Obama will spend Saturday in Brasilia.
The Miami Herald reports on Obama's schedule in Rio on Sunday:
Next Sunday the president will be in Rio de Janeiro where he is expected to visit Corcovado, the peak where the landmark statue of Christ the Redeemer towers over the city, and a favela – one of the many makeshift settlements that sprawl across the hills of Rio. The military and police have recently been engaged in a pacification program to retake the favelas from drug gangs and other criminals.
Obama is expected to devote part of the day to family time but it is possible he will make a major address in Rio."
The Obamas will then head to Chile and finish the trip with an overnight stay in El Salvador.
The Obamas are scheduled to return to the White House on the 23rd. Sidwell Friends Spring Break ends on the 28th.
The Obama administration faced down questions today about the appropriateness of the trip given the global situation. Spokesman Jay Carney told reporters, "He is the president of the United States. There are major issues all the time that a president has to contend with, which is one of the reasons why he has such a substantial support framework around him when he travels."
President Obama does this traveling so that at the first moment the Republicans show intestinal fortitude and take a position, he can be said to have returned from afar to deal with the matter personally, at great expense to the taxpayer!.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Obama is clark griswald and this feels like national lampoons vacation.
A shameful display of indifference at a time when millions are suffering here and abroad due to his “laser-focus” on jobs.. and ignoring his number 1 job.
Getting ideas for future housing for us?
Did he ever have any?
I would like to see a comparison of the past presidents and how much time they spent on ‘vacation”...
How many did GW take? I keep getting flashes of GW with a chainsaw/work gloves/jeans, clearing brush on his ranch. That’s work, even if called a vacation.
Obama and his chillun jet around the world, lay in luxury, and spend taxpayers dollars... all while Japan melts down, Libya melts down, the rest of the Middle East grows worse, and so on...
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Obama will not be the Dem candidate in the general election in 2012. They will find a face-saving way out for him, but he will be out. No donors will squander funds on a long-shot re-election bid, and the other Dems “down the ticket” from him don’t want to be sacrificed as their comrades were in 2009 & 2010.
Re-elect Carter/Mondale 2012!!
Amen.
We will also undoubtedly be shown the “fashion forward” outfits of the FLOTUS, along with her “toned” arms.
IMHO, he’s going on vacation because that’s all he does. I don’t think he knows what to do or say without it being spoon-fed to him. No man in the suit. High IQ my arse.
tone deaf as a two by four.
President Obama does this traveling so that at the first moment the Republicans show intestinal fortitude and take a position, he can be said to have returned from afar to deal with the matter personally, at great expense to the taxpayer!.
The United States of America has gone insane...
Once again, Barry alienates another great U.S. ally by frittering around on yet another vacation while Japan requires our full attention and help. The Japanese will see Barry frolicking in the sun and wonder why their ally has abandoned them.
Hey. Obama's just lookin' after "his own." Just like the first Mormon church press release about the catastrophe mentioned Mormon missionaries, Mormon members, and Mormon buildings. But nobody else.
The Obama cult is exactly that. An insulated cult.
From what I’ve seen of Obozo so far, I’d say that all he ever had in mind were to make his and his family’s life more comfortable, while making the rest of the country suffer.
Unfortunately that's wishful thinking. The left is one with the Marxist. There is NO way he will NOT be on the ticket. They need him to complete the transformation of the US into a third world Socialist Hell.
Above all the MSM and the left (I know, one and the same) want the U.S. destroyed.
The evil MSM is equal to the Marxist as a mortal danger to our Republic. Obama would not exist without the MSM.
Maybe he wants to get a Brazilian...?
We’re all going to have to make sacrifices.
By “we”, I mean “you”.
Thank you for voting for me. :)
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