Hawaii Was Weeks Ago… Now FLOTUS Michelle Obama Is Off on Another Vacation to Ski in Aspen (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on February 19, 2012
'Her Excellency' Michelle Obama... choosing her next vacation
Spending 17 glorious days in Hawaii over Christmas and New Year’s was weeks ago.
Now, barely a month and a half after returning from island paradise, First Lady Michelle Obama is off to an Aspen resort for a skiing vacation with the kids, her staff, and the Secret Service.
It’s really hard being the First Lady… interfering with what our troops eat and dictating what parents can feed their children, appearing with Jay Leno on The Tonight Show and doing pushups on Ellen aren’t as easy as MO makes it looks. Time for another posh vacation!
Suck it up, American peasants.
Reported by White House Dossier — Michelle Obama Decides to Ski Aspen:
Michelle Obama has embarked on a skiing vacation with her daughters in Aspen, Colorado, according to the Aspen Daily News.
The first lady, who just returned last month from 17 days of relaxation in Hawaii, is skiing in Colorado on Presidents’ Day Weekend for the second year in a row. Last year she went to Vail.
Michelle’s decision to ski out West again instead of hitting slopes closer to Washington would seem an inopportune choice for a first lady who is helping her husband campaign on issues of “fairness.”The Obama campaign has set itself up as the defender of the poor and the middle class against the “One Percent,” a theme which clashes with the image a first lady who is taking frequent and exclusive vacations.
Just last August, she sojourned on Martha’s Vineyard, and the month before she travelled to southern Africa for a trip that mixed official business with tourist outings like an African safari. In July 2010, she took an exorbitant excursion to the southern coast of Spain, flying out with friends and family on a large jet that often serves as Air Force 2 and then staying at a ritzy hotel.
What’s more, as the government struggles to cut the deficit, the symbolism of a first lady jetting out to Aspen with a security entourage at taxpayers’ expense to ski would seem to send the wrong message about cutting back on spending.
“Would seem to send the wrong message about cutting back on spending.”
Ya think?
From The Lonely Conservative, No Shared Sacrifice By Michelle Obama as She Skis Aspen:
You’ve got to hand it to Michelle Obama. It’s one thing to talk about shared sacrifice and fairness. It’s another to live it. Oh wait. Never mind. She’s jetted off to Aspen, Colorado with her daughters to ski and hobnob with the 1% over this President’s Day weekend. I wonder what this trip is costing us.
New video by Granny Jan and Jihad Kitty — “hope is making a comeback.”
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous ~ Michelle Obama’s Aspen Vacation
“Sacrifice” and “skin in the game,” Obama-style. During the worst economic recession (downplayed or lied about by the leftist media’s Obama Cheerleader Squad) this nation has endured in decades, spendthrift Michelle Antoinette is hitting the slopes of Colorado, setting yet another example of how the 1% should live it up while the 99% suffer under the failed policies of her husband.
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