Must be nice to jet around the country and the world on taxpayer funded vacations & 3-day weekends.
Choom gang reunion?
Obama’s people love it. If they were prezzy, that’s what they be doin’. Livin’ large and gettin’ over on da man.
Who was that person that dared ask such a question? That person shall be excluded from any future WH events, (and given an audit by the IRS as a parting prize).
Maybe Rush will let him stay in his guest house.
Taxpayer Bill for Obama’s Hawaii Vacations: $20 Million
The $20 million figure is based on estimates of the cost of the four Hawaii vacations the Obamas have taken during Christmastime 2009-2012. According to a detailed breakdown by the Hawaii Reporter, the annual excursions in 2009, 2010, and 2011 cost about $4 million, much of it attributable to the expense of taking Air Force One, at an hour rate of about $180,000, on an eighteen-hour roundtrip journey to Honolulu and back.
But $4 million almost certainly underestimates the true tally, as it does not include many miscellaneous items like the cost of flying advance teams out to Hawaii and separate flights Michelle Obama took in 2010 and 2011, when she left ahead of her husband, who was forced to stay in Washington to finish up work with Congress.
This year, Obama returned from Hawaii to complete a deal on the Fiscal Cliff and then jetted back to Honolulu, where he is now engaged in Part 2 of his vacation. The second roundtrip flight added about $3.24 million to the tab this time, bringing the cost of the 2012-1013 vacation to well over $7 million.
I don’t get this whole vacation thing.
Presidents take more vacation in one term than most Americans take in 20 years.
They don’t need that much vacation. Especially for what we pay them.
Instead of West Palm Beach, I think he should go on a cruise.
If he’s going to spend a “holiday” weekend somewhere, he should pick a holiday that everybody has off, like Memorial day, not some Federal only holiday like President’s Day. But I have mixed emotions: Any day the President is out of DC is a good day.
That SOTU thingy pooped him out!
Besides, we can't expect President Obama to actually wait until spring before taking spring break.
Watch for a hurricane or earthquake to come out of the blue.
Who was attacking him over it. Cheap little ploy to get some sympathy - poor poor barry, republicans always picking on him.
That's special.
What friends? The Larry Sinclair type down in the Keys?
In other words, the President is going to enjoy himself on the day officially designated for HIM - President's Day.