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Expensive massages, top shelf vodka and five-star hotels: First Lady accused of spending $10m in
Daily Mail ^ | 8/24/11 | Tamara Abraham

Posted on 08/24/2011 9:28:26 AM PDT by Nachum

The Obamas' summer break in Martha's Vineyard has already been branded a PR disaster after the couple arrived four hours apart on separate government jets. But according to new reports, this is the least of their extravagances. White House sources today claimed that the First Lady has spent $10million of U.S. taxpayers' money on vacations alone in the past year. Branding her 'disgusting' and 'a vacation junkie', they say the 47-year-old mother-of-two has been indulging in five-star hotels, where she splashes out on expensive massages and alcohol. The 'top source' told the National Enquirer: 'It's disgusting. Michelle is taking advantage

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Puttin' on the Ritz...

Full title: Expensive massages, top shelf vodka and five-star hotels: First Lady accused of spending $10m in public money on vacations

1 posted on 08/24/2011 9:28:37 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

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Puttin’ On The Ritz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAZhHXsknd8&feature=related


2 posted on 08/24/2011 9:30:36 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

we peasants are racists,

but we foot the bill

so that she can hate the country and us.


3 posted on 08/24/2011 9:31:18 AM PDT by ken21 (ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
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To: Nachum

They’re partying like the passengers on the Titanic.....


4 posted on 08/24/2011 9:31:40 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: Nachum

The article mentioned the trip to Martha’s Vineyard. It alluded to the fact that taxpayers are paying for their trip to Martha’s Vineyard. Is it really true that taxpayers are paying for the rent where they’re staying, and is that the policy? If so, that’s outrageous. We shouldn’t be paying for presidents to go on vacation. While it may be a drop in the bucket compared to our deficits, it sends a horrible message to taxpayers out there.


5 posted on 08/24/2011 9:32:30 AM PDT by 10thAmendmentGuy ("[Drug] crusaders cannot accept the fact that they are not God." -Thomas Sowell)
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To: Nachum

>> top shelf vodka

Cut her some slack on that one, FRiend. She actually *saves* the taxpayers money by purchasing her vodka by the barrel, weekly.

Anyhoo, I don’t fault either Barky or Shelly for drinking, considering who each of them is married to. :-)


6 posted on 08/24/2011 9:32:51 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: Nachum

This is interesting, but to be fair I really don’t take the National Enquirer seriously.


7 posted on 08/24/2011 9:33:21 AM PDT by RonBush
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To: Nachum

Criminal

Bet she justifies it by saying she couldn’t tolerate DC otherwise.

Arranged marriage.


8 posted on 08/24/2011 9:33:27 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Nachum

I was never a big Dubya fan, but I was a Laura Bush fan. I thought she was such a charming First Lady in every way. The perfect model of decorum, dignity, and decency.


9 posted on 08/24/2011 9:33:52 AM PDT by Huck (I don't believe there is just one God--humanity seems like the work of a committee to me.)
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To: Nachum

It is clearly inaccurate to report that Her Majesty’s purple bike shorts are in any sense “tiny”


11 posted on 08/24/2011 9:35:03 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: RonBush

National Enquirer has actually been pretty accurate. They are the ones that busted John Edwards.


12 posted on 08/24/2011 9:35:03 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Nachum

This reporter is obviously racist. She wouldn’t be making a big deal if Laura Bush had done this. Oh wait, . . .


13 posted on 08/24/2011 9:35:51 AM PDT by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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To: Glenn

Mychal Massie has it right.

Go here to read what he has to say about FUBO’s “wife.”

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=60963#ixzz1NxoGqiLB


14 posted on 08/24/2011 9:36:17 AM PDT by vette6387 (Enough Already!)
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To: Nachum

I don’t know at all how these things work but there should be a set budget for Presidents and their families. Period. How they spend them I don’t care, but there should be a set amount and it should be what it is. Not a bottomless bucket of money.
Of course, I think each state should also pay all expenses except for the actual building costs for Congress. Whatever they want to spend on their representatives is fine with me. But I don’t see why FL or CA or TX should pay for the representatives for MA or RI or MI. I know it’s probably a drop in the bucket when you look at the entire budget, but I think it would send a very clear message. We are tired of you living like kings and queens at the paupers expense. There was a revolution fought over just this sort of thing.


15 posted on 08/24/2011 9:36:51 AM PDT by brytlea (Wake me when it's over...)
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To: Nachum

Hey, peasant, STFU and eat your peas!


16 posted on 08/24/2011 9:36:51 AM PDT by LaybackLenny (All hail Her Royal Highness Sarah, Queen of The Hobbits)
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To: Nachum

What a reliable source


17 posted on 08/24/2011 9:37:10 AM PDT by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: Nachum

The British press-reporting the stories American reporters simply refuse to cover;)


18 posted on 08/24/2011 9:37:16 AM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: maggief

‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous’ ping. I’m sure there’s a fashion opportunity here somewhere.


19 posted on 08/24/2011 9:37:30 AM PDT by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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To: Nachum
The magazine also reported that Mrs Obama, whose fashion choices are widely followed, had been going on 'wild shopping sprees', much to the distress of her husband, who, its sources reveal, is 'absolutely furious' at his wife's 'out-of-control spending'.

Barry's reaction would be funny if his own out-of-control spending wasn't so damaging to the country.

20 posted on 08/24/2011 9:37:30 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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