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Obama Trip to China has Big Price
Boston Herald ^ | March 22, 2014 | Bob McGovern, Erin Smith

Posted on 03/22/2014 4:13:02 AM PDT by lbryce

Jet-setting first lady Michelle Obama has placed a great wall around her junket to China, denying press access while she racks up an $8,350-a-night bill at a swanky high-rise hotel — a move that is already drawing barbs back home.

Her entourage — which includes her daughters and mother — are reportedly enjoying 24-hour butler service, a private steamroom and in-room dining at the Beijing Westin.

“For the most part, Americans get that the president and first lady usually stay in well-appointed accommodations when they travel abroad, but the problem with doing it — especially now — is there are 50 million people on food stamps and we’ve been in a five- to six-year recession, and I think that’s what upsets people more than anything,” said Keith Appell, a Washington, D.C.-based Republican consultant.

Pundits are also questioning why she is not allowing press coverage.

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: china; firstlady; michelle
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To: Mears

——They outgrow it.——

She’s the oldest daughter of the worst president in the history of the United States. She’ll never out grow it.

Like Monica Lewinsky, She’s stained for life


41 posted on 03/22/2014 7:14:06 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: Toespi

Beijing hotel workers already ‘fed up’ with Obama entourage

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2586367/Beijing-hotel-workers-fed-Obama-entourage-3400-squar

” Michelle Obama and three of her family members are staying in a $8,350-per-night Beijing presidential suite, but despite a 24-hour butler and other perks that come with the lodging, her entourage has inconvenienced ‘pretty much everyone’ and made the hotel staff ‘fed up,’ a well-placed hotel staffer has told MailOnline.

Obamas’ stay has already affected staff and guests at the hotel, with the Westin front-desk veteran alleging that Mrs. Obama’s mother Marian Robinson has been ‘barking at the staff since she arrived.’ “


42 posted on 03/22/2014 7:32:03 AM PDT by Marguerite (When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: MinuteGal

Meanwhile, the eunuchs in the US Congress are servicing each other while Rome burns, ya think?


43 posted on 03/22/2014 8:04:18 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: lbryce

Only Obama could find ways to spend millions in a country where the cost for tourists is so low.


44 posted on 03/22/2014 8:36:38 AM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Spot on! She and her whole family are on an 8-year Reparations Tour, enjoying the largesse of the American Taxpayer.


45 posted on 03/22/2014 8:40:18 AM PDT by Ax
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To: lbryce
Ho hum. Just another monumental PR disaster for the Barry WH.

At least Mooch and the girls are out of the house this weekend, so Barry and his Boystown buddies can enjoy March Madness as it should be enjoyed.

46 posted on 03/22/2014 9:08:04 AM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: Liz
The other version of this comment;
The Prime Minister runs into the King's Throne Room all of of breath.
YOUR MAJESTY: The peasants, are clamoring in the streets, demanding changes. Oh, YOUR MAJESTY, they are revolting!

HIS MAJESTY:Boy, you can say that again.

47 posted on 03/22/2014 9:17:04 AM PDT by lbryce (Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Meanwhile, the eunuchs in the US Congress are servicing each other while Rome burns, ya think?
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The fact that the a...holes in congress let this go on is a travesty. Not one is willing to call hussein out on anything..not one. Not cruz, not paul..not one. All BS..all the time. Hillary will win because legions of conservatives don’t have a voice and have given up..and will not vote..I won’t..I’m done.


48 posted on 03/22/2014 9:30:00 AM PDT by AFret. ("Charlie don't surf ! ")
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To: bert

I’ve been thinking that about the older one, too. Thought maybe it was just me. She’s cultivating Momma’s and Grandma’s surly attitude.


49 posted on 03/22/2014 9:41:11 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Popman

So the kids understand how chi-coms operate their old man had home schooling on the matter.


50 posted on 03/22/2014 9:56:00 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: AFret.

Trey Gowdy has the spine and guts. We cannot give up!


51 posted on 03/22/2014 10:25:19 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Marguerite

Look at the surgery she has had in the last five years she is still the horses ass.


52 posted on 06/02/2014 10:57:14 AM PDT by angcat
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