THIS OUGHTA FROST YOUR COOKIES

[larrymeyer]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/london.asp

THIS OUGHTA FROST YOUR COOKIES


Michelle Obama Takes Girls to London for Fish and Chips
Truly change we can believe in --- or as was said during the campaign,
"We are the change we have been waiting for."

Imagine this --- and when do we get totally fed up?



A Boeing 757 and a fleet of armored cars for Michelle’s sight seeing tour!

Michelle One
On Sunday, President Obama flew back to the United States on Air Force One. His wife, two daughters and her mother did a bit of shopping in Paris before taking their own Boeing 757 (C-32) over to London to do some sight seeing.
We all remember Obama’s admonishment to corporate CEO’s in February:
“You can’t get corporate jets, you can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers dime.”
Apparently that doesn’t apply to his wife.
The London Times opened it’s description of Michelle’s visit this way:
Motorcycle outriders, armoured Chevrolets and bullet-headed men in raincoats criss-crossed London yesterday as Michelle Obama and her daughters spent a second day on an unofficial visit to the capital.
The Times went on to describe that when Michelle and the girls arrived at Westminster Abbey, the building was closed to tourists with people already in told to “wait against the wall.” An American visiting the Abbey said “Right then I knew it was probably someone from our ‘royal family’.”

Michelle’s motorcade shut down the London street above as the First Lady of the World and her children go for Fish and Chips at a pub in Mayfair. The entourage inside the restaurant was 15 people while dozens more wait outside. Include the dozens of Air Force personnel to fly and service the plane, embassy personnel and other staff and we are talking about a serious expenditure of tax payer dollars.
Meanwhile, millions of Americans have lost their jobs and won’t be able to take their family on a summer holiday. Despite their circumstances they’ll still be expected to fork over the tax dollars to pay for Michelle’s trip.

Tell your friends about this -- it's their money being spent!!

[Mr_Anderson]

Yea sounds about right just let them spend it up. This is the kind of stuff that cost me my signing bonus. that plus the all the stimulus bills / bail outs....

[Roscoe]

hey it's our royal family, whadda ya expect.......

Doesn't her ass seem to be getting bigger. She da Big Momma.......

[dlclarkii]

Well just recenetly, they had a big birthday party for one of their daughters at Camp David over the 4th of July weekend. They invited all of their daughters school friends. Yeah, they're living high on the hog

[camper]

"Let them eat cake"

camper

[US Militiaman]

This is the stimulus at work...they paid the secret service, paid the British police departments, paid for a British hotel, paid for British transportation, stimulated British eateries, and stimulated the Arabian oil industry...

You didn't think the money was for America, did you???

[larrymeyer]

"Let them eat cake"

camper

Remember today is the day

Bastille stormed by Paris mob: 14 July 1789 - This Day in History

[Eugene V. Debs]

Don't all immediate family of US Presidents get heavy security by the Secret Service anywhere they go and are taken places by Presidential air force detail?

So does that mean the family of the President doesn't get to go on any trips without the President for 8 years? Surely Obama's family can't have been the first Presidential family to go on vacation without the President himself.

[Helter]

I don't think that the first family get much choice in their mode of travel, or who travels with them for security.

[pyld]

I don't like Obama's policies.

Bush took 77 trips to Crawford during his 8 years. That's about 8 trips/year. He spent 490 days of his Presidency (well over 1/8) in Crawford.

Bush took 149 trips to Camp David, and spent all or part of 487 days there.

Bush took 11 trips and spent all/part of 43 days at the Bush Compound in Maine.

I'm not ready to hang Obama yet because he sent his wife and daughters to London, especially given the amount of time and money his immediate predecessor spent bullshitting.

Hate Obama for the correct things. This ain't one of them. For anyone in this thread who may have also posted in a thread blasting Bush for wasting taxpayer money on family vacations, I apologize.