Posted on 06/15/2019 4:00:18 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
Presidential week in Provence: Obamas arrive in south of France on private jet for vacation at $60,000-a-week, 18th century farmhouse - just days after Sasha graduated from high school
Former US president Barack Obama and his family arrived in Avignon, in south of France on Friday The Obamas are reportedly staying at a luxurious 18th century farmhouse Bathelasse island The seven-bedroom property called Le Mas des Poiriers, was rented at 55,000 euros for the week
The main house features seven double bedrooms, a family room with large windows that allow for natural light illuminate the lavishly decorated space.
It also has a big farmhouse style kitchen with a large family dining table in the centre.
The family will no doubt also continue birthday celebrations for Sasha who turned 18 last Monday.
She was pictured in her Class of 2019 photo wearing a white dress after graduating from Sidwell, Washington DC's most elite private high school, which costs $40,000 per year, on Sunday.
Barack, Michelle and Malia were photographed sitting down in the stands and later mingling among the other families in attendance.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
O’Vomit and Mooooo-Chelsea were quietly weeping the entire flight over the amount of carbon they were dumping into the atmosphere...
Fourth of July in Trump’s America is so gauche. Celebrating Bastille Day with the warm, welcoming, non-judgemental people of France and their burgeoning immigrant culture is where it’s at. /s
Maybe B.O. and Macaroni can do some wife swapping?
Imagine the carbon footprint.
They were raised right.
....guess we know where some of the cash from that third plane load went....
Nothing is too good for The Won and his family.
the humility and personal integrity of Jimmy and his wife Rosalynn, both in their 90s, are beyond reproach
Not true...
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/jimmy-carter-true-allegiances-follow-money-article-1.281609
To see Jimmy Carter’s true allegiances, just follow the money
By Lloyd Greif
Apr 26, 2008 | 7:39 PM
In embracing Hamas last week in direct defiance of the wishes of Congress and the President, ex-President Jimmy Carter raised the question of why he was granting precious prestige and credibility to an organization the U.S. government has designated a “foreign terrorist organization” since 1995.
If he was hoping to rekindle a flagging peace process, Carter’s trip was doomed to failure; Hamas remains committed to the destruction of the state of Israel. So does this trip merely reflect a tremendous lack of judgment on Carter’s part?
Perhaps the answer is more complicated. You see, the Carter Center, the ex-President’s not-for-profit research and activist organization, has prospered over the years as a direct result of Arab largesse. Many of these “charitable” interests support Islamic fundamentalism and are vehemently anti-Israel.
The full extent of these connections is unknown because the amount and source of the Carter Center’s funding is not public. But from various news reports and press releases, one can begin to sketch a very troubling picture.
For example, Saudi Arabia, the source of 15 of the 19 plane hijackers on 9/11 and whose royal family has funded terrorism outside the kingdom, has channeled tens of millions of dollars into the Carter Center over the years. In 1993 alone, the late King Fahd gifted $7.6 million, while more recently, the king’s nephew, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, donated at least $5 million to the Carter Center. The Carter Center has a $36 million annual budget; these amounts are hardly insignificant to its ongoing operations.
Another million-dollar-plus backer is Sultan Qaboos sin Said, monarch of Oman. Considerable financial support comes from the United Arab Emirates as well.
There’s more. In 2001, Carter received the $500,000 Zayed International Prize for the Environment and, the following year, praised the efforts of the Abu Dhabi-based Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow Up.
The Zayed Center has repeatedly hosted anti-Semitic Holocaust deniers, supported terrorism and asserted that there is an international conspiracy of Jews and Zionists for world domination, and that a Jewish-American conspiracy perpetrated the atrocities of 9/11.
It would seem that all of this money is not without its influence. Contrast Carter’s relentless criticism of Israel, the most modern and democratic country in the Middle East, to his appreciation of such authoritarian countries as the UAE, which he described as an “almost completely open and free society.”
Whether the United States can or should interrupt this stream of funding to Carter’s operations, it at the very least should not supplement it.
Yet - believe it or not - the United States government itself has been providing millions of dollars to the Carter Center over the years. Representative Joe Knollenberg (R-Mich.) estimates that the center received $19 million in federal funding since 2001 alone, and has called for passage of a bill that would immediately cut off all federal financing for the center.
Carter is free to travel around the world, stir up trouble, and cheer on terrorists and terrorist sympathizers. But U.S. taxpayers should not help him do this. And Carter should finally come clean and disclose the amounts and sources of all foreign funding for his center.
Just as the American public has a right to know whether a scientist researching the root causes of global warming is being funded by major oil companies, we should know who is supporting Carter’s lobbying efforts to bring “peace” to the Middle East.
It is indeed a sad day in American history when a former President lowers himself to becoming a propaganda tool for terrorists bent on harming our country and the democratic principles by which we live - and we cannot even discover who is paying his bills.
I hope he learns to like it there and stays. As France muzzifies, he will probably feel more like he can be himself, there, and may finally “come out” for what he is.
The more Trump saves America, the less turds like Zero are going to want to hang around, here. And that’s a good thing.
Harry drove his own car home to Missouri...just him and Bess...
What’s the POS doing over there?
whoever claimed that treason does not pay??
:-(
I was wondering the same thing and the child looks like she’s had plastic surgery on her nose.
Maybe they think Macron is going to give them sanctuary from the noose.
Too funny graphic.
5th. ......that’s Gold Jerry. Gold.
I wonder who’s jet that is. Notice how they made sure the tail number wasn’t in the shot. Probably a Soros owned company jet. POS.
The turkey baster died immediately after conception
Jumped from the top rack of the dishwasher onto the heating coil during the dry cycle
tragic, it was
Truman bought the car used from the government, it was a Cadillac used by the White House.
“Obamas arrive in south of France on private jet for vacation at $60,000-a-week, 18th century farmhouse - just days after Sasha graduated from high school”
Why doesn’t this peckerwood show his creds by vacationing in Kenya? With the savings in vacation costs, while there Barry could stop by one of his half-brothers’ six-by-nine foot hut to say hello and give him some plastic sheeting for the roof.
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