"The First Lady is spending the next few days in a five-star hotel on the chic Costa del Sol in southern Spain with 40 of her 'closest friends,'" Tantaros writes, pointing to a CNN report that Michelle Obama and her group are expected to occupy 60 to 70 rooms. "Not exactly what one would call cutting back in troubled times."
Tantaros goes on to criticize the first lady for traveling abroad instead of within the United States, something that would help the U.S. economy.
"Michelle Obama seems more like a modern-day Marie Antoinette - the French queen who spent extravagantly on clothes and jewels without a thought for her subjects' plight - than an average mother of two," she writes. "... I don't begrudge anyone rest and relaxation when they work hard. We all need downtime - the First Family included. It's the extravagance of Michelle Obama's trip and glitzy destination contrasted with President Obama's demonization of the rich that smacks of hypocrisy and perpetuates a disconnect between the country and its leaders."
According to the White House, Mrs. Obama is traveling with minimal staff and a small group of family friends for a mother daughter trip long in the works.
The FIrst Lady's press office referred to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs' statement at the White House briefing yesterday that "the First Lady is on a private trip."
"She is a private citizen and is the mother of a daughter on a private trip," he said. "And I think I'd leave it at that."
9 comments:
How much is she reimbursing the Government for the travel, her Staff and Security, since this is a private trip. Also is her family and friends reimbursing the Government for travel expense and other expenses they got on thedowngly Tax Payer? As a Tax Payer I am demanding an itemized bill and who paid for what.
She is a nasty beast I can't wait until her husband is brought down!
Did all of her friends fly on an Air Force Jet or did they fly commercial?
Either way the tax payers get screwed .
The screamed about Jackie Kennedy's trips and about Nancy Reagan's china and clothes. It is all such BS.
They fill an important job without pay let them have the perks.
No worry 928AM. We will NEVER see an itemized bill of anything that is associated with Obama! He and his family are protected against anything and anyone -
and we the tax payer's are getting ripped off daily with his antics!
Does anyone remember all of the hype about how much time President Bush spent on vacation? Get over it people.
7:31 What they fail to report about Bush was he preferred to work at the western White House it wasn't vacation time . But then again our economy was great before Pelosi and company took over Congress .
u people are a freaking joke its a vacation get over it and go find a job
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